Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 19, 19i65 THE BATTALION

NEW AGOIE GRID STAFFNew head coach Gene Stallings (right) and Pardee, Dee Powell, Don Watson, Bud assistant coach Elmer Smith rest on one Moore, Lloyd Taylor, Jack Hurlbut, and knee with the rest of the new staff in the Ralph Smith. Recently hired freshman background. From left, they are: Jack coach J. W. Helms is not shown.

New Coaching Staff Accented By Youth

The new grid coaching staff at A&M is one of the youngest in the country with only two members over 31 years old among the ten-man delegation.

Six of the staff members are A&M graduates themselves. The individual breakdown:

GENE STALLINGSHead Coach Gene Stallings, a

native of Paris, Texas, played three years at A&M in the mid- 50’s under Bear Bryant. He was an all-conference end his junior year and was elected tri-captain during his senior season.

He coached at A&M the first year after his playing career ended and then moved to the University of Alabama where he served under Bryant as an as­sistant until being hired for the A&M post in December, 1964. The 30-year-old Stallings re­places Hank Foldberg, who had held the job for three years.

ELMER SMITHElmer Smith, assistant head

coach at A&M, joined the Aggie staff in 1954 under Bryant and has remained here under the three succeeding mentors.

Included in his 31 years of coaching have been stints at Hamburg High, Ark., Hendrix

College, Centenary, and Southern State in Arkansas. He recruits in northeast Texas.

JACK PARDEEJack Pardee, and All-American

fullback at A&M in 1956, is re­turning after eight seasons of pro ball with the Los Angeles Rams. The Christoval native works with the defensive ends and linebackers and recruits in West Texas.

DEE POWELLDee Powell, a Lockhart native,

played center and guard for the Aggies in 1954-55-56. He spent five years in the Air Force as a jet pilot and was hired away from the Alabama staff by Stal­lings. He works with A&M's defensive line and recruits in the immediate area.

LLOYD TAYLORLloyd Taylor was a halfback

at Aggieland from 1955 through '57, playing opposite John Crow. The Roswell, N. M. native has coached in high school and at Oklahoma State. He works with the offensive backs and recruits in North Central Texas.

DON WATSONDon Watson graduated from

A&M in 1956 after a three-year

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Stallings Signs 63 Recruits In Preparation For Future

career at halfback. He has since coached at Houston, Tulane and most recently South Carolina. He works with the Aggie quar­terbacks and recruits in South Texas.

RALPH SMITHRalph Smith is a 1960 gradu­

ate of A&M who played end in college. He has coached at Orange and Odessa high schools. Smith works with the ends and re­cruits in the Panhandle.

J. W. HELMSJ. W. Helms is a 17-year-old

veteran of South Texas high school coaching who will handle the A&M freshmen. His most recent post was at Uvalde,

BUD MOOREBud Moore is a 1961 graduate

of Alabama where he lettered three seasons. He came to A&M from the University of Kentucky staff. He works with the of­fensive line and recruits in South Central Texas.

JACK HURLBUTJack Hurlbut is a '64 grad of

Alabama who coached at Galves­ton Ball last season. He works with the Aggie defensive second­ary and recruits in Southeast Texas.

New A&M grid mentor Gene Stallings sighed 63 schoolboy per­formers, the largest announced recruiting haul in the Southwest Conference.

Stallings signed prep stars from all across Texas in addition to several out-of-staters.

Stallings was particularly suc­cessful in inking highly-regarded quarterbacks. Only four signal- callers were signed, but all had glittering prep careers.

Charlie Riggs of Galena Park and Bob Long of Paris were the first and second-team 4A all-state quarterbacks, respectively. Lin- den-Kildare’s Eddie Hargett was the 2A second-team signal caller. He is the younger brother of George Hargett, former Aggie halfback.

On paper, the Cadets also re­cruited the greatest number of quality running backs in the league. Several were mentioned on the all-state squads.

Ace Cooley of Victoria was listed on the third team of the 4A all-star team, as was fullback George Rincon of Baytown. Rol­and Rainey from Bonham was selected; to the 3A second-team line-up.

Dublin’s John Turney made the second team of the 2A all-state club. Joe Wood, a 195-pounder from Waller, was a third-team all-stater in class 1 A. Richard­son’s Wendell Housley is another top prospect.

A good end crop was brought in, both in quality and quantity. Arvell Fisby of Nederland was a third team all-state choice in 4A. Other standouts include Super-Central Texas selection Joe Townsend of Bastrop and all­round athlete Tommy Buckman of Fort Worth Carter.

The interior linemen are com­paratively smaller in number but the list includes several highly- touted individuals. Gordon Klun- kert, was a first team all-state

selection in class 3A from San Marcos, state finalists.

Harvey Aschenback was a sec­ond team choice at tackle on the 2A all-state squad. Bryan's Rolf Krueger was a Super Centex choice at tackle.

The list:ENDS—Billy Mucha, 6-3, 210,

Taylor; David Simms, 6-4, 180, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Tom Buck- man, 6-4, 210, Fort Worth Carter; Gary Kitchens, 6-3, 190, Tyler; Joe Townsend, 6-3, 190, Bastrop; Joe Marsh, 6-4, 200, Pittsburgh; Steve Mullen, 6-1, 190, Browns­ville; Billy Hobbs, 6-0, 188,Amarillo Tascosa; Doug Valois, 6-1, 200, Amarillo Tascosa; Tom Townsend, 6-2, 200, Odessa;Arvell Frisby, 6-2, 180, Neder­land.

TACKLES - GUARDS—Ernest Omri, 5-11, 195, Claremont,Calif.; Ronnie Thompson, 6-2, 200, San Antonio; Herbert Owens, 6-0, 200, Galveston; Wesley Pearson, 6-0, 195, Orange; Gaddy Wells, 6-3, 185, Liberty; Tom Fox, 5-10,

205, Odessa; Mike Caswell, 6-2, 205, Smiley; Bill Weaver, 6-0, 195, Victoria; Pat Curington, 6-1, 187, Houston; Mike Thomas, 6-5, 230, Weatherford; Rolf Krueger, 6-3, 215, Bryan; Dickie Hander, 5-9, 190, Wichita Falls Rider; Gordon Klunkert, 6-3, 195, San Marcos; Harvey Aschenback, 6-2, 215, Bellville; Larry Gary, 6-1, 195, South Houston; Larry Thorn­burg, 6-0, 190, South Houston.

CENTERS—John Pearce, 6-0, 185, Sulphur Springs; Carl Gough, 6-2, 175, A&iM’ Consoli­dated; Solon Young, 6-2, 215, Midland.

QUARTERBACKS — Charlie Riggs, 5-9, 175, Galena Park; Bob Long, 6-0, 175, Paris; Eddie Hargett, 6-0, 185, Linden-Kildare; Curley Hallman, 6-1, 180, North- port, Ala.

RUNNING BACKS — Clifford Shaw, 6-1, 185, La Marque; Bruce Turner, 6-3, 235, Corpus Christi Ray; Tommy Maxwell, 6-1, 185, Houston Jones; Garey Kirk, 6-0, 190, Fort Worth Richland Hills;

Roland Rainey, 5-11, 160, Bo: ham; Ivan Jones, 5-11,190,Boo ton Waltrip; Jack Whitmore, i 11, 175, Houston WestburyiJj Wood, 6-1, 190, Waller; Jo!Turney, 5-11, 175, Dublin; Met Clark, 5-11, 190, Tyler; ftMorse, 6-0, 190, Bonham; B; Loomis, 6-2, 190, Hardin; Edp Eaton, 5-11, 200, Port Artkc Tommy Sooy, 5-11, 175, Bayton George Rincon, 6-0,205, Baytoti Howard Hicks, 6-0, 185, Bander, Javier Vela, 6-2, 185, KemiJ Phillip McAnelly, 6-2,185, Houl Ellis Bibbs, 5-11, 175, Colmeswi Jerry Reeder, 5-10,190, Palest) Tommy Gergeni, 6-1, 190, A® rillo Tascosa; Vance Bracks,5.| 175, Amarillo Tascosa; Clilfe Golden, 6-2, 192, Weatherior Buster Adami, 6-0, 185, Free Eddie Schneider, 6-0, 205,1! Allen; Ace Cooley, 5-9, 11 Victoria; Mark Thomas, 6-2,1! Granbury; John Richards, 81 180, Claremont, Calif.

KICKING SPECIALIST-Dt: nie Pruitt, 5-10, 170, Ennis,

Football At Aggieland Dates Back To 18909s

A&M football began in 1893 when the Aggies fielded a team but played no games with out-of- town teams.

In 1894 the Aggies, then known as the Farmers, played road games including the first of the traditional battles with the Uni­versity of Texas, then known as the Varsity.

The late Dean Emeritus Charles Puryear, who had joined the fac­ulty in 1888, was the first man­ager and one of those responsible for football being established at the college. A&M played no out- of-town games in 1895 but re­sumed a schedule in 1896 and have continued to do so ever

since.The first undefeated season

was in 1902, a year in which the Cadets won seven and tied two. A&M also was champion of Texas in 1909 and 1910, but in 1910 there was a loss to Arkansas, and TCU held the 1909 team to a scoreless tie. The 1912 team was hailed as “Champion of the South” in spite of a loss to Kansas State.

A&M was a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association until the Southwest Athletic Conference was formed in 1914 and is a remaining char­ter member of that organization along with Texas, Arkansas, Rice

University, Texas Tech and If lor.

Texas Tech became the eip member of the Southwest C« ference in 1956 and began pc ticipation for the football chi: pionship in 1960.

The Aggies have won the SI championship eight times « right and tied with SMU anots A&M won the title in 1917,1® 1921, 1925, 1927, 1939, tied 1940, won again in 1941 and IS The 1939 Aggie team was tional Champions and defesi Tulane in the Sugar Bowl Olss

The teams of 1917 and II were unbeaten, untied and scored upon while the 1939 is 1956 teams were undefeated,

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