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Texas A8cM iv. The Battalion Sports Monday, April 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 arsity outlasts alumni team, 24-7 ttSOt! Transfers Mazur, Harris lead Varsity by Scott Griffin Battulion Staff gu:! While it was hardly a thriller, ^^warsity’s 24-7 victory in the in j™ 1 ' Ef on i'| iSm I Bind annual varsity-alumni had some rather pleasant Irises. The Twelfth Man kickoff am actually did a decent job, assing game worked rela- well and people got a jhaEce to see three transfer he; Jajers who may prove vital to inn hekggies this fall, avefl h l oe y Harris and [oliti Mazur all looked good. ^^Mazur, a ciuarterback and nlortransfer f rom the Univer- of Southern California, nipleted nine of 15 passes for ■yards and one touchdown. Harris, a sophomore running mtpfeci from Wharton Junior Col- imiJge', ran well against an hard- ylpjttrg defense and wound up pn ()0 yards on nine carries jndlone pass reception for 14 /igds. il aJSkr, a tight end transfer , ijiti the University of Illinois. caught three passes for 33 yards, including one for a touchdown. At first, however, it looked like the Alumni who might make a good showing. Quarterback Ed Hargett led the Alumni on a 16-play, 60- yard drive in which he con nected on six of eight passes, in cluding a five-yard scoring toss to tight end Larry Edmondson. With Tony Franklin’s conver sion, the Alums had an early 7-0 lead. The Vi. jity was held score less in the first quarter. Unfortunately, though, the Alums could not do much bet ter. The touchdown was the only score all afternoon for the Alumni, who could do little more offensively from that point on. Excluding the first half, the Varsity had a somewhat ba lanced attack. Harris led all ground gainers with his 60-yard performance, and Shea Walker caught four passes for 53 yards to lead all receivers. For the Alumni, George Woodard led the running attack with 32 yards on nine carries. Wide receiver Doug Teague led the receivers with three catches for 35 yards. Siler summed up the game when he said: “The whole thing was unorganized, espcially the (alumni) defense. But I guess you can’t blame them.” Most of the game was sluggish — both teams strung together some good drives during the game, but failed to turn them into points. After the game, Head Coach Jackie Sherrill said he knows more about the team at this point than he did this time last year. Sherrill said he was especially pleased with the play of the offensive line, a weakness of last year’s team. Sherrill also said he was im pressed with the coverage of the Twelfth Man kickoff team, which made it its debut in the game. The group held the alum ni to 28 yards on two returns. However, Sherrill added that he is still looking for a break away running back. The Varsity wound up with 297 yards total offense to 180 yards for the former students. The Alums had only 77 yards rushing — the Varsity had 170 yards on the ground. AGGIE FACTS: Plans are underway for the Twelfth Man kickoff team to travel to Mexico City to play the University of Mexico in a game in August. Sherrill said the game would be a reward for the team’s work. The game must first be approved by the NCAA, though, because of its pre season date ... Wide-receiver Don Jones will be in a knee cast for six weeks. Jones tore a liga ment in practice on Thursday ... Aggie fans got a look at a new defense that will used this fall. The defense is a 3-4 alignment with three linemen and four linebackers. The alignment will be used to lake advantage of the wealth of linebackers on the team, Sherrill said. Alums ‘fool a few people’ just by staying alive by Joe Tindel Jr. Battalion Staff Iggie fans got a first look at prt of the 1983 version of fexas A&M’s football team in hturday’s Varsity-Alumni iilmne. ■t wasn’t much to talk about Inoi this early in spring prac- '■)f course, one could discuss Ipssibillties of a John Mazur-led ■Ense, or make a bet that trans ferJoey Harris might, with time, I feome one of the best backs to .vlar Aggie maroon. Hut it’s too early. The enter- Inment came from the guys itje’ve already left their marks nlAggieland. Certainly they fooled a few doubters who hought they couldn’t stand up B the youngsters. After all, lie alumni scored the first its of the game, and, using ;ss substitution tactics, held on |ugh to keep from being blown out. They also got a chance to see what their alma mater has potential to do next season, and they had a blast doing it. “We enjoyed it,” said Warren T rahan, a defensive tackle who played on Texas A&M’s nation ally-ranked defense of the mid- 70s. “But we can’t play but four or five plays in a row before we’re sucking gas. This is the best thing that ever happened to me, and I’m going to be coming back as much as I can. “What’s good is when the game’s over with, everybody calls us and says, ‘Well, what do y’all think, how good’re they going to be?”’ Much of the levity from the alumni after the game centered around lack of phyisical condi tioning. Former offensive guard Kent Adams said jokingly that mental prepareness was a must for the alumni. “We had to (be prepared),” Adams said. “It was kind of sur vival. We either get up or be killed.” And Alum quarterback David Beal, who’s now an assistant coach for the Aggies, spoke of some concern about his health. “There were a few of them (varsity players) that said before the game they’d like to take a shot at me, and I had my eyes open all the time looking for one of them to take a shot at me.” A lot of varsity players didn’t play in Saturday’s game either because they are involved with baseball, track or nursing in juries. But the consensus from the alumni was that there’s hope for the Aggies. we were doing some things on defense that were not really what we were suppose to be doing. But I was impressed with the running of Joey Harris, and I was impressed with the way the line blocked.” Edd Hargett, quarterback — “You can’t tell anything about today (Saturday). They’re not doing any stunts or anything. They’re standing in there just playing straight-up basic de fense. T hey’re very aggressive. I didn’t think they were nearly as agressive last spring as they were this year.” staff photo by David Fisher Aggie varsity quarterback John Mazur prepares to deliver a pass in Saturday’s Texas A&M varsity-alumni spring game. The Varsity defeated the Alums 24-7. Here’s how a few of the alums critiqued the Aggies: Beal — “I thought they looked pretty good at times. At other times, they didn’t. I think ‘If those aren’t seagulls ... were in trouble. There’s a better way to see America this summer. Now that school's out, take some time out to see America. And a great way to see it is on Greyhound with Ameripass®. The Greyhound Ameripass is your passport to unlimited travel in the U.S. and Canada. For one economical price, you get the freedom of over 100,000 miles of Greyhound routes coast to coast. And you can get an Ameripass for 7,15, or 30 days. If you're going straight home, don't forget about Greyhound's convenient schedules. 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