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THE BATTALION Page 19
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1981
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() l t | ‘i |reshmiin punter Buzzy Sawyer of the Texas A&M football
ircer | team puts a foot into a kick during a recent practice. In his first
unsimUegiate game, the 6-foot-l, 190-pound Sawyer averaged 36
ilar al{ yards on four kicks against the California Golden Bears. Head
i overt Coach Tom Wilson signed Sawyer to a scholarship shortly
Staff photo by Brian Tate
before the start of two-a-day workouts, and it looks as if the
Waxahachie High School graduate will provide the Aggies
with depth at the punter position. He and sophomore Kyle
Stuard will probably share the punting duties this year.
Aggies nab punter from Waxahachie
Buzzy s no ordinary frosh
By GAVE DENLEY
Battalion Staff
It lasted only a split second, but
that was long enough to make
Aggie punter Buzzy Sawyer’s
heart skip a beat as he trotted back
to the sideline.
“I hobbled a snap,” Sawyer
said, remembering one of his four
kicks against Berkeley last Satur
day, “and it was kind of scary. It’s
kind of like when you almost have
a wreck. ”
His case of momentary butter
fingers, however, didn’t stop the
red-headed freshman from post
ing a 36-yard average in his first
college game.
“I guess I’m satisfied, but I
know I can do a lot better. I guess
it just takes a little time,” Sawyer
said.
Meanwhile, the environmental
design major from Waxahachie is
just happy to be playing for the
Aggies.
“I was going to walk on at Texas,
but then about a week before I
left, A&M called me and offered
me a scholarship to come down
here and punt,” Sawyer said.
The Aggie football staff first
learned of Sawyer’s punting abil
ity from Waxahachie High School
teammate Doug Centilli, who was
interested in walking on as a
kicker.
“He was talking to the coaches
about playing football,” Sawyer
said, “and they asked him if he
punted. He said, ‘No, but my
friend does.’ So they called me
down here.”
Sawyer visited the Texas A&M
campus Aug. 7 for the first time,
signed with the Aggies the same
day, and reported for two-a-days
the following Sunday.
Robert Sawyer’s friends and
family have been calling him
“Buzzy” since he was a youngster,
and he’s been kicking footballs
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that long as well.
“My dad used to punt in high
school too, and so when I was little
we used to go out and kick a lot,”
Sawyer said.
His father’s coaching paid off in
a 38-yard punting average and
three years on Waxahachie High’s
varsity squad. As a punter, kicker
and tight end, the 6-foot-l, 190-
pound athlete was part of the 1980
Waxahachie team that took the 6-
4A district title with an 8-4 record.
During the spring Sawyer play
ed baseball for Waxahachie in the
unusual alternating roles of pitch
er and designated hitter.
“When I didn’t pitch, I’d DH,
because you can only throw so
much a week,” Sawyer said. “We
were contenders. We got second
in the district — well, maybe
third. It was close.”
Off the field, he kept busy as the
drummer for a local band spe
cializing in “slow stuff and rock n
roll.” After a month in College
Station, however, Sawyer said he
thinks his conversion to country
music and dancing is only a matter
of time.
He grinned through his Califor
nia sunburn, a result of spending a
lot of time on the sideline without
his helmet on. One of the facts of
life for a punter is that the better
the team plays, the less action he
sees. But Sawyer said that doesn’t
bother him.
“When they’re playing good,
you’re just happy for the team, ” he
said.
If Sawyer’s predictions are cor
rect, his time will be spent almost
exclusively on the sidelines. The
Aggies, he said, have a better
chance of winning the conference
this year than they’ve had in a long
time.
“There’s not a team on here (the
Aggies’ schedule) we can’t beat.
It’s just a matter of doing it.
Sawyer said. “I think they’re fired
up. I can’t really tell because this
is my first year here and I don’t
know how they’ve been in the
past. But they’re ready to play.
“This is ideal down here, just for
my position. I get a chance to play,
the facilities are real good, and
we’ve got a winning team."
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