Sports
THE BATTALION Pago 9
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981
Wilson spends day traveling
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A&M signs 20 to letters of intent
By RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
Phase One of the recruiting war
is over for Tom Wilson, but the
battle is not yet won.
Wilson, the head football coach
at Texas A&M University, hit the
road Wednesday to sign 20 high
school players to letters of intent.
Although the Aggies lost a few
scraps for players with other
SWC schools, the crop signed
this year was a good one.
Feb. 18 is the national signing
date, when schools may ink
schoolboys from outside their
state.
With blue chip linemen Ray
Childress of Richardson (Pearce)
and Greg Porter of Humble head
ing the list, Wilson and other
A&M recruiters came away smil
ing this Wednesday.
One that got away from the
Aggies, however, was Pat Frank-
Torn Wilson
lin of Bay City. Franklin, 6-0, 210,
is considered the best running
back prospect in the state, and had
said he was interested in coming to
Texas A&M all along, but on Tues
day changed his mind, and signed
with Houston Wednesday.
Another was 6-2, 215-pound
linebacker Alan Jamison of Spring
Branch Westchester, who chose
Baylor after a spirited recruiting
battle that also involved the
Aggies, Texas and Rice.
But no matter what successes
were claimed by other schools,
Texas made the biggest early
splash.
Port Arthur Jefferson outscored
their opponents last season, 513-
157, before being upset in the
state championship game by
Odessa Permian, 28-19. And
throughout the year there were
four players that recruiters around
the country coveted the most.
Texas got them all.
Todd Dodge threw for 3,135
yards during the season, complet
ing 221 of 357 passes for 30 touch
downs. He was the first high
school player in Texas to throw for
more than 3,000 yards in a single
White Sox hire SMU head
United Press International
DALLAS — Southern Methodist University
athletic director Russ Potts has been named vice
president of marketing for the Chicago White Sox,
White Sox officials announced Wednesday in Chi
cago. '
SMU held a news conference this morning to make
the announcement.
Potts, 41, a native of Winchester, Va., will begin
his new job with the White Sox within the next two
weeks, a team spokesman said.
During his three-year tenure at SMU, nine of the
university’s 12 sports have ranked in the top 20 in the
nation. In 1978, SMU set a new NCAA attendance
increase record when the average per game attend
ance at football contests jumped from 24,000 to
52,000.
Potts will be in charge of marketing, advertising,
promotions and communications for the White Sox.
Speculation indicated the announcement of Pott’s
resignation was held back until after Southwest Con
ference football signing day, which was Wednesday.
It was feared announcement of his intention to go
to Chicago would disrupt SMU’s recruiting drive
among high school students.
season. Brent Duhon caught 89
passes for 1,380 yards and 16
touchdowns.
Texas came away with what
many consider the cream of the
crop, but that as all things remains
to be seen. In addition to the two
blue chippers, there were two
from Texas Football Magazine's
top 30 list and nine from the top
90.
Texas A&M signed six linemen,
three receivers, seven backs and
four linebackers. The Aggies got
most of their talent from the Hous
ton area gold mine, picking up
players from Humble, South
Houston High, Houston Memo
rial, Baytown Sterling, Spring
Branch, Stratford, Houston Klein,
Conroe and Pasadena Rayburn.
The signees included:
LINEMEN — Childress, 6-6. 250,
Richardson (Pearce); Porter, 6-4, 240,
Humble; Joe Valasquez, 6-2, 235, Houston
(South Houston); Mark Clayton, 6-3, 240,
Queen City; Glen Hendrickson, 6-4, 240,
Houston (Memorial); Steve Jacobson, 6-4,
235, Baytown (Sterling).
RECEIVERS — Chris Larkin, 6-3, 210,
Spring Branch (Stratford); Jimmy Teal, 6-1,
165, Diboll; Matt Darwin, 6-3, 220, Hous
ton (Klein).
BACKS — Marvin Wesley, 6-1, 182,
Navasota; Terry Scott, 6-1, 190, Jasper;
Lance Jackson, 5-9, 180, Temple; Ronald
Watkins, 5-9, 180, Marshall; Willis Iverson,
5-9, 175, Canton; Reed Killion, 6-2, 225,
Conroe; Darrell Austin, 5-10, 170, Fort
Worth (Wyatt).
LINEBACKERS — Jimmy Jordan, 6-2,
220, El Paso (Burges); Rusty Nettles, 6-1,
215, Houston (Klein); Cedric Ellis, 6-1, 195,
Navasota; Darrell Smith, 6-3, 200, Pasadena
(Rayburn).
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Yantis fires a 230 to lead golfers
Susan Yantis, freshman from
San Antonio, fired a 54-hole total
230 to pace the qualifying rounds
for Texas A&M ’s five-woman team
that will compete in the Houston
Baptist Invitational Tournament.
That tournament starts a three-
day run Sunday at Conroe’s River
Plantation Country Club.
Playing in somewhat adverse
weather, Yantis shot a 73 last Fri
day at Briarcrest Country Club, a
76, Monday at the Texas A&M
course and an 81 Tuesday at Briar-
crest.
Monica Welsh, a junior from
Austin, finished second with
rounds of 77-78-81, 236; followed
by Shirley Furlong, junior from
San Antonio, 77-79-81, 237; Kim
(Bauer, senior from Conroe, 80-78-
82,240; and Jackie Bertram, soph
omore from Austin, 81-77-82, 240.
In the 54-hole tournament,
teams can enter five players with
the low four rounds each day
counting in the team total. Other
teams in the event include Hous
ton Baptist, Lamar, LSU, North
Texas State, Oklahoma State,
SMU, Texas, TCU, Texas Tech
and Tulsa.
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