THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1979
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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Staff
We’ve all heard the phrase, “Ap
ril showers bring May flowers.”
Well, Texas A&M head football
coach Tom Wilson is hoping these
rainy spring football drills will help
the Texas Aggies blossom into a
Southwest Conference cham
pionship contender by the fall.
Wilson has spent the entire
spring cultivating his crops, making
sure everything is in its proper place
for the fall football harvest.
And it is during the spring drills
when Wilson has the chance to ex
periment and weed out all the er
rors and weak spots because he
knows there will be no time for mis
takes come September.
The Wednesday afternoon prac
tice was spent concentrating mostly
on the younger players to see what
kind of depth the Aggies will have
next year.
“I felt like we needed to give
some of the younger players more
playing time today because some of
them haven’t been able to play that
much in our Saturday scrimmages,”
Wilson said. “This also gave us a
chance to rest some of our first team
players so that they will be able to
go full speed on Saturday.”
Wilson has made a lot of changes
this spring, switching linemen from
defense to offense at will. The most
recent change was moving freshman
Kevin Kennedy from offensive to
defensive line and sophomore Tim
Ward from defensive to offensive
line.
“We just have to make sure we’ve
got the right people in the right
places,” Wilson said. “We’ve got to
have the best 22 men on the field by
September.
“We’re just not blessed with the
depth that some of the other schools
in the conference have. I feel very
good about the first teams, both of
fensively and defensively. But be
yond that, we’re in trouble.”
Changes and experimentation
seem to be the key terms for the
Aggies this spring. Besides moving
players from position to position,
Wilson has also installed a new
numbering system on offense along
with some new formations. And
Wilson said the new system has
caused some problems.
“The younger players made the
same mistakes today that the first
team made at the beginning of
spring training,” he said. “I think
today helped the young players a lot
and they are going to be ready on
Saturday. ”
Wilson had more than one reason
to play the younger men on the
team Wednesday. It seems the
spring practices have taken their toll
on some of the players and Wilson
must work around the walking
wounded.
“We’ve had so much contact this
spring,” Wilson said. “We have to
get things down and you can’t do it
by going half speed. We’ve had
comparable talent going against
comparable talent all spring and
when you do that, you get some
people hurt.” In other words, Wil
son has run the number one offense
against the number one defense.
Wilson commended halfback
Temple Aday and fullback Roger
Wiley for continuing to practice al
though both have been hampered
by injuries. Quarterback Mike
Mosley is in the hospital with the flu
but, according to Wilson, will play
in the scrimmage on Satur4
“We’re bunged up,” WiljJ
“I think wefl just haveoj [glam
against defense this Satwi I runn
stead of two full teams hjj prof
we’re hurting so much, f Leag
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just keeps giving 100 perctj teani
hitting like crazy. The phjjj I breal
titudes are great and theyVj playi
aggressive all spring.” N.J-,
Wilson has lost one more5 fcj Th’
player but not to injury. HI Pep> (
Curtis Dickey will spendtlitij g re >
this spring running trackfmj , wild
Charles Thomas. Dickey tH kees
even play in the annual Manj PepO
White game April 27th, serio
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practices would help Cuifi i *nk
much,” Wilson said. Tdfe didn
hamper his running in anysta ffteam
sides, I know what Curtis®*; kn° v '
the football field and diat'sj gone
spring training is all about."
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