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There are ernal Affairs, Fimr 1 cy. while in office. ry Medicine luate lent governmef' 60) J87) By LAURIE MATUSEK Reporter A T exas A&M physical education major coached a local junior high football team to its second winning season and the players’ parents say they couldn’t be happier. “There are no hotshots on the team and everybody works together," says Carol Morris, a player’s mother. “Coach Ferguson is great and we want him to stay.” Gregg Ferguson, 23, a fifth-year senior at A&M, is in his fourth year of coaching seventh grade football and basketball at A&M Consolidated Junior High School. Ferguson, who also is working to ward a teaching certificate in English, says the time he spends coaching does not fulfill the teaching requirements that count toward his degree plan. He says he coaches just for fun. “I played sports in junior high and high school, and my freshman year at Wharton County Junior College 1 played football on scholarship,” Fer guson says. “The next year I transfer red to T exas A&M and found it hard to give it all up so I decided to take up coaching on a part-time basis.” Ferguson says he has always been interested in sports. “My dad was a coach at A&M Con solidated High School, so he had a major influence oh me,” he says. In 1981, Ferguson applied for and was accepted as volunteer coach of Consolidated’s newly formed seventh grade B-team in football and basket ball. “I did it for my own satisfaction, and, after the two seasons were over, the junior high paid me $700,” Fer guson says. The teams’ abilities have progres sed and so has his salary, Ferguson says. He now is paid $750 a season. Football mom Stephanie Ryan says parents agree that Ferguson isn’t looking to gain personal status, but instead is working to make the play ers become better individuals. “He encourages the players to be Christians by starting out each game with a prayer,” Ryan says. ‘‘He teaches the kids values, telling them that it takes team effort to win games. “It’s just his way of talking to the kids that makes him special. He makes all the players feel that they are equal.” Ferguson says each individual is important. “Win or lose, it’s my job to give every player a Chance to play,” Fergu son says. “T didn’t stress winning. I only stressed that they should try and learn how to become good athletes. “I told them that the only way they would lose, however, was if they beat themselves. In any case, I try to main tain a relaxed but disciplined atmos phere for the players.” Ferguson stresses the importance of having discipline in practice and in the game. “There has to be discipline or the kids would end up getting hurt,” he says. “When it’s time for business, it’s time for business.” Ferguson says he’s not too tough on the kids all of the time. “It was pouring down rain during our last practice of the season, so I decided to let the kids have a little fun,” he says. “I put the blocking dummy directly in front of a huge mud puddle and let the kids plow on through. “They had a great time and so did I.” The following day Consolidated’s seventh grade B-team defeated Wal ler Junior High 36-0. Coach” Greg Ferguson helps a youth with his basketball skills. After football season, several pa rents joined together to throw a pizza party for the team, Ferguson says. T he parents bought trophies for their children and the players purch ased a plaque for their coach that read: “To Coach Gregg Ferguson, with care and appreciation, for lead ing our boys in the direction of be coming young men.” Accused killer born again, baptized in jail Associated Press FL PASO— Henry Lee Lucas, the one-eyed drifter who boasted of hun dreds of murders only to recant his grisly confessions, was baptized Sun day in the chapel of the El Paso Coun ty Jail. Lucas, clad in an orange jail uni form, was completely jmmersed in water in a baptismal font at the jail chapel. The dripping inmate was then given communion by the Rev. Russell Bone, who conducts ah inter denominational jail ministry here. As Lucas and a handful of guests sat in the bare little room with pale blue walls. Bone read from the Bible. The half-hour ceremony was attended by three jail guards, a re porter from the El Paso Times, mem bers of the Lucas defense team, in cluding flamboyant El Paso private investigator Jay J. Amies and sister Clemmie Schroeder of Georgetown. Lucas has credited Schroeder, who conducts a jail ministry, with leading him to his new-found Christianity while he was incarcerated in George town. When the ceremony ende'd, guards hustled Lucas out of the chapel and back to the eighth floor of the jail, where he is being kept in solitary confinement. Schroeder was allowed to visit him there after the- ceremony. Lucas is awaiting trial on murder charges in El Paso. For a while, Lucas was considered one of the deadliest serial killers in WHICH DO VOU'TftU«~T...VOOA I OR YOUN EVIDKMCC? 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