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. BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS THURSDAY, NOVEBMER 21, 1968 PAGE THREE
Dave ,
Nelson
Contributing Columnist
‘Pep’ Talks•
NEWARK, Del. (NE A)-Let‘s
win this one for the Gipper."
This was not the first, or the
last attempt by a college foot-
ball coach to motivate his team
tol greater heights but Knute
Rockne’s appeal has been what .
• the public associates with a
pep talk:
The jargon changes from
generation to generation, but
whether they call it a pep
talk or psychological oratory
or being juiced or ready, it's
working toward an emotional
peak to play the game
Great games are played
when both teams are ready
and their emotional lift
doesn't wear off as the pres-
sure or the score mounts 1
(The psychological prepara,
tion of a team varies from
getting it to play up to capa-
city, to getting it to play bet-
ter than it has played before.
Not only does the coach
"psyche" the player, but the
player "psyches" himself
Frederick Remington, the
noted frontier artist, played
end at Yale in the late 1870s,
weighing no more than 150 -.
pounds. To boost his own
morale and intimidate his
opponents, he would take the
leather jacket he wore in the
games and soak it in blood
at the local , New Haven
slaughter house. In this way
he convinced himself he
could scare the 200-pound
tackles of the opposition. It %
might have helped Reining-
ton, but I’ll bet some of.
those tackles took one look
and decided that he was just
a heavy bleeder.
The most challenging sit-
nation for a coach is losing
week after week Both the
coach and the squad wonder
if they will ever win One
coach tried . to remedy the -
situation by putting up a new
sign every Monday He
started with —I isn't the
size of the dog in thefight,
it's the size of the fight in
the dog " and then, "'Quit-
ters never win and winners
never quit" and finally, on
the seventh week. The im
possible is what nobody tan
- do until somebody does it "
One obviously discouraged
player, after reading this for
seven weeks through seven
losses, decided to put up his
own sign. His message read,
"Fall back, dig in and save.
.the equipment 'J________
wac There are times. noweversmaas
. when a coach has to say
very-little in 1948, when Rip
Engle was coachin g at
Brown and Herman Hick-
man at Yale the two teams
met late in the season Hick
man decided to scout Prince-
_____- ton that day and allow, his '
assistants to handle the :
Brown game Of course, alf 1
• Rip had to say to his Brown
club was, "Mr. Hickman .
dbesn t think enough of us as
a football team to even come
to the game today." The
poor Yales had a tiger by
the tail and it wasn’t Prince-
ton %
When a team plays well at
the start of the Second half, .
someone always makes the
, comment that the coach
must have really read the
riot act This might be true a .
time or two; but in most
cases it is the corrections
and adjustments the coach
has made.
The best psychological ap-
proach is to have your team
able to run with the ball. .
—block, tackle kick-pass and ,
catch better than the oppo-M
nents and conditioned to play
60 minutes.
When this is the case, the
coach only has to- worry how
many weeks of winning
there will be before his team
gets tired of carrying him .
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Year of O. J. Marks Century
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By MURRAY OLDERMAN
I Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
NEW YORK—(NEA>—In this the Year of O.J., the end
of the first century of collegiate football, John Shinners,
I - too, can be All-American. He was so declared on the 1968
All-American team released today by the Newspaper
, Enterprise Association •—»---
OJ is, of course, Orenthal James Simpson of the Uni-
versity of Southern California whose chronicled exploits
have projected him, justifiably, as the greatest tmenner of
the first 100 years Whether in living color, or tawdry black
and white, O.J. has regaled and excited millions with his
" explosive bursts for a team on the verge of its second
, straight national championship And O J has been named
to his second straight All-American berth as a running
1 back
But John Shinners plays offensive guard for a team
whose games are never televised and in a stadium which
A seats 15,000. In it, Xavier University has been hard-pressed
to beat such as Marshall, which has just failed to win a
game for the second year in a row Yet abilities of Shin-
C ners, who stands 6-3 and weighs a mobile 250 pounds, are
well defined because college football has come a long way -
from 1889, when Walter Camp picked an All-American
M team composed of three Harvards, three Yales and five
Princetons:1
“Shinners is- a blocking line in himself,” testified Coach
g Frank Lauterbur of Toledo after his team lost to Xavier
C On this All-American team is also Joseph Greene, who
- stands 6-4 and weighs 274 pounds and has been notably
y marked for attention by every professional scout in the
he. Lluited States. He has played defensive tackle three years -
Cefor. North Texas State University——
3 Yet pro credentials aren't the. pre requisite for (his All-,
$ American team Charlie Rosenfelder doesn’t rate high on
many scouts' charts because they're not attracted to block-
A ing guards who weigh 220 pounds But for the Tennessee
Volunteers, Charlie has, in words of Coach Doug Dickey,
• provided a wonderful example for our younger players—
he's a great blocker." Jerry Levias is the split end because
1 of what he has done for his team, Southern Methodist, as
a pass catcher, and spectacular kick returner— but he
measures only 5-10 and rates behind Ron Sellers of Florida
State and Jim Seymour of Notre Dame as a prospect. No
pro team envisions Chris Gilbert, at 180 pounds, as a run- *
ning back and they doubt his speed, but on the record he
„ is the greatest ball carrier in Southwest history, and a bang
Ifide All American on achievement
There were difficult choices in several positions. Ohio
State has two awesome specimens at the offensive tackles
—6-5 Dave Foley and 6-5 Rufus Mayes—so equal in ability
that Coach Woody Hayes refuses to split them out. The
nod went to Foley as a "steadier performer." Southpaw
Bobby Douglass of Kansas and Notre Dame's brilliant
Terry Hanratty were the standout quarterbacks of the year.
A knee operation which removed Terry from the last three
games helped settle that issue. Center is a generally
obscure position on the college grid. Two men had it to
themselves this year: Oregon State's John Didion and
Oklahoma State's John Kolb. Didion shaded his rival on
.size.
—OFFENSE
FOLEY *
OHIO ST.
or
Pos.
Name and School
Cl. Age Ht.
TE Ted Kwalick, Penn State
SE Jerry Levias, SMU
OT George Kunz, Notre Dame
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
21 6-4
Wt.
230
22 5-10 175
OT Dave Foley, Ohio State
OG John Shinners, Xavier
OG Charles Rosenfelder, Tenn. Sr.
C John Didion, Oregon State Sr.
QB Bobby Douglass, Kansas
RB 0. J. Simpson, USC
FB Paul Gipson, Houston
HB Chris Gilbert, Texas
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
DEFENSE
21 6-5
21 6-5
21 6-3
21 6-1
240
250
250
220
20 6-3% 242
21 6-3 212
21 6-1 205
22 6-0 205
22 5 11 180
SHINNERS. 7
XAVIER -
FoG
Pos. Name and School Cl. Age Ht. Wt. IT
DE Ted Hendricks, Miami (Fla.) Sr. 20 6-8 222 "
DE Ron Carpenter, NC State Jr. 20 6-6 250
DT Joe Greene, No. Texas State Sr. 22 6-4 274 9
DT David Campbell, Auburn Jr. 20. 6-4 235
MG Ed White, California Sr. 21 6-3 255 aas
LB Ron Pritchard, Arizona State Sr. 21 6-0 230 N
LB—Dale McCullers. Florida State Sr. 21. 6-1 207
DB Leroy Keyes, Purdue-Sr.21 6-1′2 190g
DB Jake Scott, Georgia Jr. 23 6-1 D D
S Roger Wehrli, Missouri Sr. 22 6-0 184
S Al Brenner, Michigan State Sr. 21 6-1 195 T.
The name of Leroy Keyes is better known as a multiple •
offensive threat for, Purdue, but here he’s listed as defens-
ive halfback because he's one of the rare birds who plays
either wav and it's impossible to leave him off an all-star
roster Michigan State's Al Brenner was also a two-way
performer, at split end and safety, averaging 55 minutes a
game Nominally, Ron Carpenter is a defensive tackle for
North Carolina State, but it’s just as easy, for expediency,
to envision his 6-6 range at defensive end V
Carpenter, defensive'tackle David Campbell of Auburn
and defensive back Jack Scott of Georgia are the only
juniors selected -
The All-American repeaters are Keyes, Simpson, de-
fensive end Ted Hendricks of Miami and tight end Ted
Kwalick of Penn State. •.
All 22 selectees will receive gold Miralux blankets by
West Point-Pepperell, with stitched All-American emblems;
individual sets of Burlington Gold Cup socks in 76 colors,
and framed certificates The gifts will be presented in
special ceremonies in their home towns
KEYES,
PURDUE 4a
on ′ WEHRLI, ′
28 MISSOURI ■
Offense
SECOND TEAM
Defense
TE Steve Zabel, Oklahoma DE Bill Stanfill, Georgia
SE Ron Sellers, Fla. State DE John Zook, Kansas
OT Rufus Mayes, Ohio St. DT Mike Reid, Penn State
OT Malcolm Snider, Stanfd. DT Tom Nelson, Arizona
OG Jim Barnes, Arkansas MG Ernest Calloway,
OG Guy Dennis, Florida Texas Southern
C John Kolb, Okla. St. LB Mike Hall, Alabama
QB Terry Hanratty, N. D. LB Ken Johnson, Army
RB Ron Johnson, Michigan DB J. Marsalis, Tenn. A&I
FB Bill Ehvart. Oregon St. DB Bill Kishman, Colo. St.
HB Mercury Morris, S Al Worley, Washington
West Texas State S Tony Kyasky, Syracuse
HONORABLE MENTION
Offense: Ends—Jim Seymour, Notre Dame; Gary
Steele, Army; Gene Washington, Stanford; Eddie Hin-
ton. Oklahoma; Speedy Thomas, Utah. Linemen—Keith
Christiansen,. Kansas: Jack Rudnay, Northwestern;
Mike Montler, Colorado; „Ken Carmon, Ohior Joe-Lhot-r -
sky, Clemson. Quarterbacks— Freddie Summers, Wake
Forest; Brian Dowling, Yale; Gene Cook, Cincinnati;
"Marty Domres. Columbia; Jamie Harris, Grambling.
Backs—Roland Moss, Toledo; Frank Quayle, Virginia;
Ross Montgomery, TCU; Ed Podolak, Iowa; ′ Calvin
Hill, Yale; Dick Lyons, Kentucky; Larry Smith, Florida.
Defense: Linemen—Mike McCaffrey, California; Phil
Olsen, Utah State; Loyd Wainscott, Texas; Jon Sand-
strom, Oregon State; Julian Nonnemaker, Tennessee,
Martin Branch; Larry Nells, Wyoming. Linebackers—
Jim Sniadecki, Indiana; Ken Criter, Wisconsin; Tom
Stincic, Michigan; Mike Kolen, Auburn; Mike Widger,
VPI; Chip Healy, Vanderbilt; Tim Bice, South Caro-
lina; Noel Jenke, Minnesota; Bob Babich. Miami (O.).
Backs—Mike Battle, USC; John Tatum, Ohio State; Jim
Weatherford, Tennessee; Tom Curtis, Michigan.
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