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By KURT ALLEN
Battalion Sports Staff
The next time a Texas A&M punt
doesn’t travel a Ray Guy-like 50
yards, don’t blame David Appleby.
The Aggies’ punter may be follow
ing the coach’s orders.
Appleby, a 5-10, 185 pound
senior from Dallas W.T. White, said
his average distance per punt drop
ped during the Baylor game because
Aggie head coach Tom Wilson told
him to move the ball and not worry
so much about the distance of his
punts.
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game. Coach Wilson kept telling me
to work on moving the ball more.
That means getting the ball off into
the air quicker,” Appleby said. “So
you’ve got to remember that any
time a punter is asked to speed up
his delivery, to rush his kick, there’s
just more of a chance that something
will go wrong.
Appleby said Wilson was striving
for a 40-yard average and no return
on punts. The head coach wanted
the ball to move quicker to avoid
any blocked punts.
“I know he was worried about the
success Baylor had with blocking
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punts last year,” Appleby said. “I
also think the memory of that
blocked punt during the Brigham
Young game was still fresh in his
mind, and he wanted to prevent
that from happening again.”
It was the blocked punt during
the BYU game that spoiled an
otherwise excellent night for
David Appleby
Appleby. The infamous punt came
with 2:43 left in the fourth quarter
and the Aggies on their own seven
yard line.
Appleby’s partially blocked punt
traveled only 12 yards and set up
the winning B.Y.U. score. Never-
th eless, Appleby averaged 44.7
yards-per-punt. Appleby’s career
average at Texas A&M is 40.5 yards.
His best season was his sophomore
year when he averaged 43.3 yards
per kick.
There was plenty of pressure on
Appleby before the Ags ever played
a game as Wilson continually talked
of the weakness of the punting game
and the necessity of a good punter.
“I really don’t know why every
thing fell into place during that
(BYU) game, after all the trouble I’d
had lately,” Appleby said. “During
the summer, I worked hard and lost
15 pounds. I thought that would
really help. But when I got back to
A&M for the fall, my kicking was a
mediocre, on-again-off-again thing.
“Things really didn’t click for me
until the start of the BYU game. I
went out onto the field and just felt I
could kick well. Suddenly I had all
of my confidence back. I bet I was
probably more nervous during prac
tice the whole week before the
game.”
During practice sessions,
Appleby and the punting unit are
not given a regular time to work on
their punts.
“We just work on the finer points
of our kicking game during most of
practice. When the main drills are
over, then the team spends some
time sending rushers up against our
punting unit. "
His main goal, at this point, said
Appleby, is to work on his delivery
so that he gets the ball intoi*
no more than 2.1 seconds af.
ball is snapped. Although L
goal is 2.2 seconds, Applebj’sijJ
strives for 2.1 seconds.
Appleby said he credit
team’s good spirit in the faced
losses to Wilson. i:;
“I feel like Coach Wilsopii
on our level. He’s very opaL
easy to discuss problems will:
He just flat came'out and d
the team if anyone had anyj
about what the coaching stall
wasn’t doing.”
Looking ahead to SaturmL
with Penn State, Appleby sad
contest is of top importanceti
Aggies, because it will
season either go up or maybei
for good.
“Any way you look at it, (ks
very attractive. Up until m»
been a strange season.
“I think we need to come hi
Texas Tech game with a 2-2 ie
Otherwise, you eventually|
the point where if you’re not
ning, you don’t feel like plfm
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Erxleben eating word
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United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Red-faced
rookie kicker Russell Erxleben,
claiming he never said his centers
and holders were better at the Uni
versity of Texas, Wednesday
apologized to his New Orleans
Saints teammates for the report.
The latest bruhah with the Saints’
million-dollar kicker erupted after
Lou Maysel, a reporter for the Aus
tin (Texas) American-Statesman,
wrote a story inferring that Erxle
ben beheved he had a better holder
and snapper in college than in the
pros.
“(Maysel) asked me if I thought
some of my problems in camp had
been because of the holder and
snapper,” Erxleben said. “I told
him, ‘No, I ve never had a bad
snapper or holder as long as I’ve
been kicking. That wasn’t the prob
lem.’”
Erxleben said Maysel then asked
him how he rated Longhorn snap
per Scott Huntington and holder
Rickey Churchman in comparison
with the Saints’players ham
same job, center John Wafc
holder Ed Burns.
“I replied, ‘Lou, I miss-fe
Erxleben said. “They were
good and you miss the [f
you’ve been working with,’]
all I said. If I had said the
play'ers were better, I d have
burned in Austin.”
Erxleben, drafted No. 11
Saints but who played just but
lar season game before being;
on injured reserve for fonri
with a pulled muscle,jsiil
apologized to Watson and I
soon as he arrived at the
training facility.
The newspaper story alspif
Erxleben as saying the Saints
draft Churchman as his hA
“I told (Maysel) I heardsr
outs talking about his dianj
draft, and that it would be gj;
were drafted by the Saints,:®
together again,” Erxleben
“That’s all. This whole thing
me mad as hell. I wish (the
paper) would call again.”
American-Statesman sport'
Jim Trotter said only that the
paper was confident its stor
correct.
“We stand by our storyjj
said.
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