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sion
seven
meaning
ofon-the- Doug Williams
job training.
The 6-(i, 290-pound former
Texas A&M standout was drafted
in the second round by the New
York Jets, cut last week and
picked up by the ( )ilers.
When guard Mike Munchak
suffered an ankle injury in the
Oilers’ preseason finale against
Dallas on Saturday, Williams sud
denly found himself playing
guard.
“I guess it was a little bit panic-
ville at first,” Williams said. “You
go up to the line and the first
thing you see is (Cowboys de
fensive tackle) Randy White. But
(center Jim) Romano and I were
talking the whole time.
“We were talking from the
huddle to the line of scrimmage
and almost until the ball was
snapped. You don’t just walk in
and play the offensive line on tal
ent alone.”
It was another unnerving turn
in Williams' brief , chaotic pro ca
reer.
After helping the Aggies win
the Southwest Conference
championship and a Cotton Bowl
victory last season, the Jets made
Williams a second-round selec
tion.
The Jets hoped Williams would
be a cog in the rebuilding of their
offense line, although Williams
had already made it known he
didn’t want to play in New York.
T didn’t want to go there in the
first place and I said so before
they drafted me,” Williams said.
‘‘Even if they hadn’t cut me, 1
would have asked to be traded af
ter die season was over.”
Williams missed the Jets’ mini-
camp and the first five days of
training camp in a contract dis
pute. He ended his holdout July
25, signing a four-year, $925,000
contract.
The Oilers were quick to grab
up Williams when his name ap
peared on the waiver wire.
Now he may figure in Hous
ton’s offensive line, also in tur
moil with the holdout of starting
tackle Harvey Salem, which
forced a preseason shuf fle of as
signments.
Line coach Bill Walsh sees po
tential in Williams if he can learn
the Oilers system quickly.
"He’s got a lot of catching up to
do hut he was almost a first-
round draft pick,” Walsh said.
“He’s very willing and has good
strength, especially arm strength
for pass blocking. He’s just got to
learn the system.”
Williams, who finished his
A&M career in the first year of
Aggie offensive coordinator
Lynn Amedee’s tenure, is trying
to learn his third offensive
scheme in one year.
Williams has worked at both
guard positions and at tackle this
week as the Oilers prepare to
open the regular season Sunday
at Green Bay.
“I’ve been switching a lot but
don’t think I’m complaining,”
Williams said. “I’m happy where I
am and they’re not pushing me.
They’re giving me time to learn
the system. But I’m ready to go
up to Green Bay and give it the
best I can this week.”
Ags look
sharp in
1st outing
By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
Although it won’t go down in this
year’s official record book, Tuesday
night’s Maroon and White intra
squad game left a positive mark on
Women’s Volleyball Coach A1
Givens’ personal scorecard.
“We were very pleased with what
we saw tonight,” Givens said, follow
ing the Maroon team’s three-games-
to-two victory. “We’ve got some girls
who are not hesitating to take a
swing at the ball. We’ve been telling
them not to worry about making
mistakes and to learn to use those
mistakes as a positive influence.”
Givens, in his first season at A&M
after leaving Mississippi last spring,
decided to forgo the customary
A&M-versus-the-local-media opener
and go with the intrasquad format in
order to give his players game expe
rience.
“The big thing about tonight’s
game is to give us the opportunity to
show off our new squad before we
go to our first tournament this week
end,” Givens said prior to the game.
The Aggies will travel to Illinois
State this weekend for their first
four-team tourney against Utah, Mi
ami of Ohio and host team Illinois
State — three teams that Givens said
will give the Aggies their first real
test of the season.
But this weekend’s tourney will be
more than just a regular season
opener for Givens who filled a va
cancy left by Terry Condon.
Condon, who led the Aggies to a
33-4 record in ’84, left A&M to be
come assistant athletic director at
her alma mater, UCLA, last January,
following the Aggies’ 26-8 season.
Givens has increased the versatil
ity of his team by improving passing,
using attack serves and receiving the
serve with three people in hopes of
wresting the Southwest Conference
championship from Texas, which
has refused to relinquish its title for
the past 10 years.
Givens rotated his players equally
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The ’86 A&M volleyball team put on its first dis
play of the season in a Maroon-White scrimmage
Photo by Greg Bailey
in G. Rollie White Coliseum Wednesday night.
The Maroon team won three of the five games.
throughout the first three games, all
of which were won by the Maroon
team. In the fourth and fifth games,
however, Givens stocked the Ma
roon team with the girls he plans to
start this weekend — setter Chris Zo-
gota, middle blocker Stacey Smith,
outside hitter Cheri Steensma, out
side hitter Stacey Gildner, middle
blocker Margaret Spence and out
side hitter Michelle Whitwell.
Interestingly enough, the White
team won the last two games by
scores of 15-9 and 15-8 using a
scrappy defense and a strong of
fense.
When asked if that odd turn of
events bothered him, Givens replied,
“Yes and no. The White team had a
lot more to play for tonight, and I
think the Maroon team got frus
trated with the scrappy play of the
White team. I think they got a little '
bit concerned about the other side of *
the court arid didn’t pay enough at- *
tention to their own game.”
Overall, Givens said he was happy t
with the team’s performance.
“It’s like I told the girls in the
locker room,” he said “this is as bad ;!
as we’ll ever he — and that’s pretty ;
good.”
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