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By RITCHIE PRIDDY
Sports Editor
This is the second part of a two-
irt story on the Texas A&M de-
nses under former Aggie defen-
coordinator Melvin
jbertson.
The one game the defense ex-
eded even the wildest expecta-
ms of everyone involved in the
with, of course, the excep-
jn of Robertson, was the 1975
pU game in Fort Worth.
|The Aggies did everything but
try the hapless frogs in that
me, holding them to a career
iv of minus 67 yards total offense
an NCAA record. Needless to
L Robertson was elated with the
, . . . r I hformance but added that it
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This is not being critical, but
; could have set records that I
tm’t think could have ever been
loken because we did dominate
le whole league in defense.”
A major disappointment for
bertson, as well as every mem-
(rofthe 1975 and ’76 teams, was
fact that the teams never won
SWC championship outright.
[Both in ’75 and ’76, the Aggies
Id the material and their best
|ot at winning a national cham-
mship. What the didn’t have
a consistent offense,
a 1975, the Aggies defeated
Texas Longhorns 20-10 to run
ir record to 10-0 and move to
[ earned run aver, J number two spot in the nation,
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ssful. There was al-
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lining the championship in
?6, By the end of the year,
vever, the Aggies were consi-
hd to be one of the best teams
college ball.
[You can’t get involved in stats
E all that, but we were always in
lie middle, like fifth or sixth, in
^nse. It is very, very unusual to
win a championship with that kind
of offense.
“The defense can’t score
enough points to win. You’ve got
to have an offense. There’s not
many teams that can win a cham
pionship unless their defense and
offense is pretty close to the top in
the stats.”
Robertson prides himself on the
personnel he coached in ’75 and
’76, but he admits some were play
ing above their level.
“We had some guys that we
ren’t really that good. However,
they played with so much emotion
and played together so much that
they were successful. There was
always one of them Player of the
Week or something.
“They played with so much en
thusiasm and aggressiveness that
“They may not have a Pat
Thomas, but not many
teams do anyway. But, il
everybody on the team is
going like Mike Little
then Mike looks like Ed
Simonini. It’s a team
effort, though. Every
body has got to play.
some of the guys that were not
quite that good played better than
they were supposed to. That made
the good guys play super, so, con
sequently, we had one hell of a
defense.”
Over the years a number of
Robertson’s students were drafted
by the pros, some of the most not
able include Pat Thomas, Ed
Simonini and Lester Hayes.
Both years (’75 and ’76), he said,
there would be about four or five
players that would be a cinch to be
drafted, but, because some of the
other players played above their
level they would be drafted as
well.
Robertson often attends Aggie
scrimmages and games and sees
some similarities between his de
fenses of the mid-70s and the 1981
version.
“Right now, in a lot of areas,
they have better people than we
had. Better depth for sure. That’s
potential.
“Again, potential never played
a down or made a tackle. The one
thing that counts is performance.
You’re always competing against
yourself to do the best that you
possibly can.”
Robertson is excited about the
’81 team and he said some of the
players play with the same kind of
attitude that was characteristic of
his teams.
“They may not have a Pat Tho
mas, but not many teams do any
way. But, if everybody on the
team is going like Mike Little then
Mike looks like Ed Simonini. It’s a
team effort, though. Everybody
has got to play.”
Robertson plans to re-enter
coaching but is waiting for the
right offer to come his way.
When Bellard left he asked
Robertson to be his defensive
coordinator at Mississippi State.
For a time it appeared he might
accept the job, but at the last mi
nute he turned it down.
“I turned it down because I
didn’t want to leave the state for an
assistant’s job. I would leave,
though, for a head job. ”
Meanwhile, Robertson waits,
although somewhat impatiently,
for a job to open up, thinking of his
past teams and dreaming of the
ones he’ll surely have in the fu
ture.
Marathon
runners
Barbara Collingsworth and
Adelide Bratten head for the
finish line in Saturday’s Texas
A&M Invitational cross coun
try meet. The women’s team
finished third while the men’s
team finished fifth in their first
meet. Both return to action this
weekend when the men will
travel to Waco and the women
to Houston.
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1NT CHIT
By GAYE DENLEY
Battalion Staff
Sophomore Howie Johnson
posted a 156 for two days of play
and junior Duane Standley added
a 157 to take Texas A&M to a
third-place finish in the Sam
Houston Intercollegiate Golf
Tournament at Waterwood Mon
day and Tuesday.
Southwest Texas State Univer
sity won the 15-team competition
with a team total of 626, while the
University of Texas finished nine
strokes back at 635. Texas A&M
and Stephen F. Austin State Uni
versity tied for third with a pair of
636’s, and host Sam Houston State
University had a 641.
Johnson, the runner-up cham
pion for the second year in a row,
was one of a handful of players to
break 80 on the redesigned
Waterwood National Golf Course.
A score of 155, fourteen strokes
over par, was enough to win the
tournament, Johnson said.
“I was leading the tournament.
I was even par (Tuesday) going
into (hole number) 12,” Johnson
said. “I missed the putt on the last
hole that it took to win the tourna
ment.”
The course’s new design made
play difficult and caused a lot of
high scores, Johnson said. Last
year, he shot a 76-75-151 to take
second place, compared to this
year’s 79-77-156.
“They put the tees all the way
back and put the pins on corners, ”
Johnson said.
Waterwood will be the site of
the PGA qualifying tournament in
October, Coach Bob Ellis said,
adding that playing the toughened
course was a good experience for
his team.
With the scores so high, Stand-
ley’s 157 tied him for third and
senior Paul Oglesby’s 161 put him
Volleyball
team plays
tonight
After a disappointing road trip
to California last week, the. Texas
A&M womens’ volleyball team
will try to improve its 4-6 season
record against Lamar University
tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
The match against Lamar will
prepare the Aggies for the Texas
Womens’ University Tournament
in Fort Worth Friday and
Saturday.
at 10th overall. Senior Mike Mil
ler and freshman David Jones
both shot a 163 for the two rounds.
The Aggies add their third-
place finish to a fourth-place show
ing in last week’s Fall SWC Tour
nament in West Columbia. After a
week of rest, they travel to
Louisiana for the Morton Braswell
Intercollegiate Tournament in
Shreveport Oct. 4-5 and the Jim
Corbett Classic in Baton Rouge
Oct. 7-9.
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