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That’s a name that’s been around for awhile. For any fan of Texas A&M football it’s a name that will be sorely missed next year. For the past four football seasons Walker’s name has shown up in A&M’s starting backfield. He is one of the nine seniors that will letter for the fourth time in their career at A&M. Walker belongs to Coach Emory Bellard’s first bunch of recruits. He attended high school in Del Valle, on the outskirts of Austin. After his senior season he was contacted by such schools as TCU, Rice, South west Texas, Texas A&I and UT. But he decided on A&M. “I wanted to go to a major college to play football and get a good edu cation. I visited a lot of schools and liked A&M the best. One might think that it would not be advantageous for a running back to play in the same backfield as Bubba Bean. But Walker has proven that he deserves the All- SWC honors he received his sophomore year. He ranks No. 4 on A&M’s all-time rushing chart and has a 4.5 yard average this year. Walker was beset by injuries last year, as was the entire Aggie backfield. So far this year they have been fortunate as far as any serious injuries go. The Aggies return to Kyle Field this week after three straight games on the road. Skip says there is a definite advantage playing before a home crowd. “Sure you can hear the noise. Once a play begins you can’t, but after a play you can tell if a crowd is fired up and it helps. You do some thing good at Kyle Field and all hell breaks out. Even if it’s just getting a first down. Out of town, where’s there’s not many Aggies all the en thusiasm has to come from the team.’’ Mental preparation is important in anything a person does but it’s especially so in football. Coaches can only help with the physical pre paration during the week and it’s up to individual players to prepare themselves mentally. For Walker that preparation comes the night be fore the game. “The night before a game is when you get mentally ready. For most games you don’t have time the day of the game. Fora 1:30 game you ^et up and eat and it’s time to go. If it s a night game that day is just a con tinuation from the night before.’ The Aggies offense has not been consistently shining this year but they still haven’t lost a game. De spite their 6-0 record the gripers came out early in the season and are still around. How does this affect the team? “I take it in stride,’’ says Walker. T’ve been here long enough. I get mad cause people don’t know the whole story. They just look at the score. A person has to be a part of it to really understand. You won t ever satisfy everybody. Many thought the Aggies had an off game last week when they beat winless TCU by only eight points. The pressure will be on them Satur day when defending SWC champ ion Baylor comes to town. But in Walker’s thinking the team will per form as they need to. “Every week when we play we have to play like the No. 5 team. Sure there are letdowns but we can correct them. The pressure’s on us now. We know we have to perform well. It’s all a matter of getting men tally ready. It’s also a matter of prov ing to ourselves that we can play like we re supposed to. The Aggies have been in the Top Ten since the beginning of the sea son. They are the favorite to win the SWC, and for those two reasons alone it is imperative that they per form well each week. The pressure is on them but they know they can achieve what they want. "Going undefeated is a goal but winning the conference is what we re really striving for. We can get ourselves together, look at what we have and decide what we have to do. Nobody said anything before the season started, we just decided to win it. But we can’t win by looking ahead. That’s one good thing about this team. We re taking it one week at a time. There are five weeks left in this season. With Walker and the at titude that he and the whole team have they should achieve their go als. 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Both the tee and the practice green are irrigated. “It is a nice facil ity,” said Coach Bob Ellis, “and it should develop into a better one in the future.’ The other part involves the hard work and dedicabon shown by the 17 members of the squad. The team has been expanded to 17 players from last year’s 12, some of whom Ellis recruited very heavily in order to get a wide variety of players. Walk-ons were also given a chance to qualify for the team. “I wanted to give anyone who was willing to pay the price an opportunity to play,” said Ellis. “I don’t feel a youngster should be deprived of his ability to compete simply because he is not on scholarship,” he added. This fall, the team has competed in three tournaments. During the Southwest Conference Fall Tour nament held at Texarkana, Ark. on Sept. 15 and 16, the Aggies qual ified for the final 36 holes, finishing fourth out of nine schools. A week later, the squad entered the Ok lahoma City University All-College Tournament against a strong field. They played poorly though, finish ing twelfth out of 20 entries. “It was not a strong finish,” said Coach El lis. “We should have done better.” Last week, the team played against The University of Houston and Houston Baptist University at Kingwood Country Club in Hous ton. Due to rain, the last round was postponed and they ended up in the second position with a combined score of 313. Qualifying begins next Tuesday for the upcoming Jimmy Demaret Invitational to be held at Pan American University Nov. 6-8 in Edinborough. “I am looking for ward to that,” commented Ellis. “It is a great format for a tournament. ” The fall tournaments give Coach Ellis an opportunity to prepare his players for Conference competition during the Spring semester. “I can observe who plays well under pres sure and then try to determine why some of these players do not per form well in these circumstances,” he said. "I can work with the indi vidual and iron out certain areas of his game,” he added. “This gives him the confidence needed to over come the problem. “Golf is generally an individual effort,” Ellis continued. “Yet there is a fine line between the individual playing for himself and playing for the team. A person will go only to a certain length when playing for someone, and is therefore limited. But he will strive more if it is benefi cial to his own cause. That is why the player has to acquire the self re liance to be aware of others on his team, and that he too is a member of the team.” Overall, the outlook for the future is encouraging. “Our toughest com petition should come from Texas and Houston,” said Ellis. “We are stronger than we were at this time last year. The attitude of the players is solid and I think we will be right up at the top with the other school- Last month, 13 of the top schools in the nation competed in the Uni versity of New Mexico Tucker In tercollegiate Golf Tournament. Both men and women were entered in the competition. The tournament featured such prominents as Tulsa, Arizona, Stanford, Florida, Hous ton Baptist, and others. Brenda Goldsmith brought the first place trophy home for the Aggie women, firing a 54 hole total of 227 and tying a women’s course record with a 74 in the second round. She defeated Nancy Lopez of Tulsa by one stroke, last year’s runner-up in both the Women’s U.S. Open and the Western Amateur Open. “She was really up for it,” said Women’s Golf Coach Kitty Holly. “She played her heart out and I am very proud of her. The women golfers will compete next against Houston Baptist Uni versity Nov. 27-28 at Inwood Forest Country in Houston. DEXIERI1Y How to do nothing and look like a million. Slip into 4' Dexter casuals. Easy on the eyes. The feet The wallet BROWN 24" I&tt/'iS Sitae StoA&'L You’re not one of the crowd!, You’re special, \ and there is something special for you in HOUSTON! A dynamic engineering-construction firm. Set your own limitations — don’t have them imposed. Our work is expanding in all areas of heavy industrial design. We need your talents if you have a degree in Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering. We plan to interview on campus Oct. 30 To arrange an interview . . . See your Campus Placement Center. Now! 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