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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1977)
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1977 Sports Spring training filled with enthusiasm Tim Scott, Texas A&M’s premiere discus thrower, prepares for the Texas Relays. The 50-year old event will be held this Friday and Saturday in Austin. Battalion photo by Jana Thieme By NATHAN HINES The smell of Ben-Gay was strong in the air, with a few people moving rather slowly, as the effects of the first day of spring training were being felt in Cain Hall yesterday morning. Wednesday was slow getting started, with a few eight o’clocks being missed, but at four o’clock that afternoon the football players were back at it again. All the soreness that some had complained of earlier in the day seemed to disappear under the thrill of being back in full pads for the second day. The good natured kidding came back as footballs were passed around before practice actu ally started. Then it began. The team was called together for stretching excer- cises and agility drills. The shrill sound of the whistle broke the air as Coach Robinson sent the players through each agility drill. After agilities the team broke into groups for individual skill practice. The quarterbacks and receivers worked on passing, the defensive linemen and backs worked on tack ling, running backs worked on run ning over and around people, and the offensive linemen worked on blocking. Coaches: yelling, telling, and showing how it should be done, mixed with the sounds of shoulder pads hitting each other. An air horn sounded and the groups broke into offensive and de fensive sections. Plays were run by the offense against the scout de- ■ j fense, while the scout offense was running plays against the defense on the other end of the field. There was plenty of back slapping and congratulating as the teams ran against each other. “Nice catch. . .that’s the way to run. . .way to hit”, and other remarks were said by the players. Pro scouts and coaches, along with some professional football players, watched the practice. Bubba Bean, Jackie Williams and Pat Thomas were a few of the pros who were watching and giving some advice to the players during breaks. A Coach from the Pittsburg Steelers and one from the New York Giants wrote notes in their notebooks and told their tape re corders about the Ags. They could see that the Ags have potential. The final horn sounded and the team grabbed cans of Gatorade and some salt tablets and went in to take a shower. The second day of spring training was over. The activity in the dressing room was lively. C.J. White joked with receivers about missing passes, while the receivers joked back about the poor quality of passes being thrown. Towels were being popped and pads were being thrown, as the sound of the showers tried to drown out the team’s shout ing. David Brothers felt a little sore after two hard days of practice. “I’m a little sore,” Brothers said, “but that comes natural with everyone hitting on you.” Tony Franklin had his own area of soreness. “My foot’s a little sore, but it takes a few days to toughen it back up,” Franklin said. “I kicked a NFL players get big settlement United Press Internationa] WASHINGTON — Stars such as O.J. Simpson, run-of-the-mill third string quarterbacks and draftees who never made it are going to get a cut of a multi-million dollar out-of- court settlement pie under the new contract between the NFL Players Association and the pro football owners. Ed Garvpy, executive director of the players union, announced yes terday that U.S. District Judge Earl R. Larson in Minneapolis gave pre liminary approval to a complex for mula for allocating to veterans and draftees $13,675,000 paid by the owners in exchange for settling legal damages in two major federal court cases which they lost. 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