The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1972 Page: 3 of 4
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THE YELLOW JACKET, March 17, 1972
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Jacket's Nest Jackets Kick-off Spring Drills
By PHIL WATTS
Sports Editor
For the first time since Dec. 11, last year's winningest
senior college grid team in the state—Howard Payne Col-
lege—was donned in full armor this week.
Since the practice session opened Monday the big-
gest sounds have been made by a newcomer to the Yellow
Jacket regime—little 150-pound Bobby Murphy.
Murphy stands only 5-9 and is a .transfer from Whar-
ton Junior College.
That big noise he is making is every time his toe
touches the pigskin. Monday he put on quite a field goal
kicking display for a couple of pro scouts, who turned
out to look over HPC's football prospects.
Murphy drilled 11 kicks out of 14 from the 50 yard
line. He also boomed eight in a row from the 40.
Dean Slayton, HPC's head football coach, says Mur-
phy has a tremendously strong leg for his size. That may
be a massive understatement since kicking from the 50
means he's booting the ball more than 60 yards in the
air because the goal post for college football is set back
10 yards from the goal line.
Slayton feels his new kicker could develop into one
of the best in the Lone Star Conference and there was,
no arguments concerning statement from the pro scouts.
With their hopes high lor
a repeat of the Lone Star Con-
ference championship, Howard
Payne College's football Yel-
low Jackets kicked off spring
training Monday.
Head grid coach Dean Slay-
ton says he has three object-
ives in mind for spring drills:
locate offensive linemen, come
up with some quality tight
ends and decide on several de-
fensive backs.
The Jackets were hurt by
graduation in those positions.
Some of the quality that was
around last year won't be back
for the 1972 season. Ail-Ameri-
can defensive end Ken Sand-
ers will be with the Detroit
Lions of the National Football
League; all-conference guard
Gil Gore and tight end Bill
Lambert played out their eli-
gibility along with defensive
backs Edward Robinson and
Carl Cannon.
But possibly the most not-
iceable absence at the drills
will be last year's quarterback
Bonnie Colliflowor. The prize
signal caller said goodbye to
Jacket football a couple of
months ago to work out person-
al problems, but according to
latest reports the Payne field
general is making plans to at-
tend classes at HPC this sum-
mer to re-establish his eligi-
bility for next fall.
Slayton plans to work his
warriors for two hours a day
Monday through Friday and
then have a controlled scrim-
mage on Saturdays: The drills
are scheduled to end April 14
with the annual spring game.
This year's contest is planned
at 2 p.m. in Lion Stadium.
HPC Cindermen Run 1st At San Angelo
SAN ANGELO — Somebody
remarked that beating the
Peoples Republic of China
might be easier than defeat-
ing the Howard Payne track
and field Yellow Jackets.
That's debatable. But one
thing that certainly wasn't de-
batable was the winner in the
San Angelo Invitational in
wind-swept San Angelo here
Saturday afternoon.
Fielding the largest contin-
gent of any of the other five
teams, 'Coach Don Hood's
Jackets posted points in 15 of
the meet's 17 events to win
with relative ease.
The Jackets wOn top honors
with 79 points.
The other teams and their
points were: Sul Ross, 54%;
Way land, 40; McMurry, 27;
and Tarleton 17.
r-ordjour Wins Two Events
Billy Fordjour, Loral Rog-
ers and Mike Murphy were
big guns for the powerful
Jackets. Fordjour had first
places in the mile and 3-mile
rUns. His winning times were
4:24.7 in the mile and 15:08.5
in the 3-mile.
Rogers showed some of the
potential that Coach Hood has
\ been predicting for him. He
finished second in the 100-yard
dash with a time of 9.8.
In the 220 he came in third
with a clocking of 22.0.
Rogers also ran a leg on
a Howard Payne sprint relay
team which captured a blue
ribbon. It was the first top
finish in the sprint relay for
a Jacket team since anybody
can remember.
Linksters Walk-off
With Top Honors
ABILENE—A sweet swinging crew from Howard Payne
College walked off with top honors in a three-way golf
match here Friday afternoon.
Coach Ralph Marshall's Yellow Jackets toured the
par 71 Abilene Country Club layout in a windy 300 to
nip Abilene Christian College by three shots.
Host McMurry was far back in third place at 327.
Payne took a slender one-shot lead into the final
hole where Gary Carr and Willie Edwards both snaked
in 25-foot birdie putts to assure the victory.
Edwards and ACC's Ray Harlow shared medalist
honors for the day with three-over-par 74's. Howard Payne's
Tim Little and Carr were right behind with 75's as team-
mates Larry Harper and David Armstrong added a 76
and 77, respectively.
Larry McNeely paced McMurry with1 a 75.
Friday's victory served as the final tuneup for the
first of four tournaments that will decide the Lone Star
Conference golf champion.
Tournament No. 1 kicks off Wednesday at Texas A&I
in Kingsville with Marshall's Yellow Jackets expected
to prove strong challengers to defending champion Angelo
State.
The Rams nipped the Yellow Jackets by, two shots
in a meeting earlier this year at Brownwood Country Club.
HPC (300)—Willie Edwards 74; Tim Little 75; Gary
Carr 75; Larry Harper 76; David Armstrong 77.
ACC (303)—Ray Harlow 74; David Reese 75; John
Bradley 76; David Vernon 78.
McMURRY (327)—Larry McNeely 75; J.erry CrUmp-
ton 81; Keith Rowland 81; Gaylon Beights 90.
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Weightman Murphy got off
his best throw of the year in
the shot put with 56-10. He
had four throws in six at-
tempts that were measured
at more than 55 feet;
In the discus Murphy came
in second with 131-9. Earlier
he placed, fifth in the javelin
with 145-11.
Besides the Jackets' surpris-
ing win in the sprint relay,
they also came through with
a second place in the mile
relay.
880 Provides Points
In terms of points one of
the most prolific races for the
Jackets was the 880-yard run.
They picked up points in
three places with Jones Abebo,
who has had a slow start at
Howard Payne, finishing sec-
ond with a time of 1:59.3. Also
in the 880, Ernest Lee came
through with a third place
performance. He was clocked
at 2:01.8.
In the high Jump, Buddy
Ward placed second with his
best leap of the year—6-4.
This weekend the HPC track
team will be in Alpine for the
Sul Ross Invitational.
IT'S ALL IN A DAY'S WORK for coach Harold Mayo,
the offensive coordinator for Howard Payne's football
team. Coach Mayo took his lumps in practice Tuesday
as he explained running the option to the quarterbacks.
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The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1972, newspaper, March 17, 1972; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth128694/m1/3/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.