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The Battalion Sports
Monday, April 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13
arsity outlasts alumni team, 24-7
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Transfers Mazur, Harris lead Varsity
by Scott Griffin
Battulion Staff
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The Twelfth Man kickoff
am actually did a decent job,
assing game worked rela-
well and people got a
jhaEce to see three transfer
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[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.
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