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Pros Draft 3 Buffs JEFF LLOYD three West TexaiTState University football players were drafted yesterday and today in the National Football League's college draft being held in New York. Jeff Lloyd, a two-time all-Missouri Valley Conference selection and a starter in four different positions during his senior year, was the first to go when the Seattle Seahawks picked win in the third round yesterday. Michael Kelson, an All-MVC safety, was chosen late last night by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to start the fifth round. The Kelson is a two year letterman from Phoenix. Ariz.

Offensive tackle John Ayres. a 6-5. 232-pound 3-year letterman from Page 29 GLOBE-TIMES Friday, April 9,1976 Carrizo Springs, was selected today by the San Francisco 49ers in the 8th round. Lloyd, a fi-OKPpound co-captain for WT. was tapped by the Seahawks as the second pick in the" third round.

Overall, he was the 62nd collegiate chosen during the 1976 edition of pro football's scramble for football talent. "I'm excited!" Lloyd exclaimed. "I really thought I'd get picked later on. I'm really surprised." PUTT POWELL'S PUTTING AROUND Hull Shunned Newspaper Clippings; Sloan, And Yeoman Agree; Kirk And Odom Don't T. G.

Hull served as head basketball coach of the Amarillo Sandies from 1937-38 through 1960-61. He refused to place newspaper clippings on a bulletin board. "I've failed as a coach if have to get my players ready to play by- reading newspaper clippings," said Hull many times. Several football coaches were asked for their comments on Hull's statement. The first one is by Bill Spann, Dumas, who played football under Hull at Amarilio High School.

"I won't go as strong as coach Hull, but I do agree it's the coach and the players who have to get themselves ready to play," said Spann. "We do not use clippings to try to do the job. "We do post clippings occasionally, but for information more than anything else. Most of our players read the papers anyhow and probably have read any controversial article. "I have generally found that any time the coach has to really work at trying to stir up his team for a particular game, that you may be in trouble anyhow.

If you are playing several weak teams along with a strong team, you may can get away with this. "But if you have a strong schedule every week, this is going to cause you to lose as'many as you probably will win. You need to keep more on an even keel and be ready to play every week." Steve Sloan. Texas Tech. "I think the players like to read about the opponent, however, I agree with coach Hull that few games are won by reading newspaper Jim Breckenridge, Borger.

"I disagree with coach Hull. I feel like enthusiasm builds interest and interest builds participation. At Borger we fight the numbers game, so anything we can generate to develop enthusiasm we will use. Remember, we are coaching the 1976 players." Darrell Royal. Texas "We put up newspaper clippings, but we don't put a whole lot of stock in them." John Welborn.

Pampa. "I tend to agree with coach Hull. "However, we still put up clippings mainly to familiarize our players with their opponents. I feel like they get to know their opposition better when they watch them en film." Gene Mayfield, West Texas State. "I agree basically with coach Hull, however, if our opponents make demeaning statements we will put up the clipping." Tommy Stone.

Lubbock High. "It is my opinion that the news media is a very integral part of hometown athletics. I think that high school athletics is a very emotional experience. If an individual cannot play with emotion, he is not a competitor or a winner. as a coaching staif.

should get. our team fundamentally ready to play each game. But we will use other things like newspaper clippings to get them ready to play emotionally." 4ft Cs Frank Broyies. Arkansas. "You never know whsi motivates kids.

They do the playing and must 02 motivated." Deane Wright. Canyon. "We place clippings on the bulletin board, but we don say a tot about it. We let the boys draw their own conclusion about players of the week and things like that." Grant Teaf Baylor. "We use clippings as a matter of information for our players not motivation." 41 Charlie Johnston.

Childress. "Kids like to see their names in print. Publicity, I feel, plays a very important part in athletics. I have seen when a good reporter has helped our team and when a poor reporter hurt our team. Newspapers definitively have an effect upon athletics." Bill Yeoman.

Houston. "I agree with coach Don Sessom, Groom. not encourage the reading of cuppings. However, our kids do read the papers and often times what they read about another team does motivate them to play. -I alo notice when they read about themselves they seem to play ooorlv Thev tend to think they are better than they really are.

This usually doesn't last past the first quarter though. The other team convinces them." GeoreeKirk Plainview. clippings are one of the most used forms of game have used them and I'm sure I'll use them again. -However the young men playing today are a little more sophisticated than in years' past and most of them have already seen the article by the time a coach can do something about it "I feel the only way a coach can fail his young men is to fail in using anything that will help his team get ready for a game." Seattle took Lloyd as a defensive end. though the senior from Emporium.

started as an offensive tackle, linebacker, tight end and defensive end on different occasions. The versatile Lloyd was an All-MVC pick at offensive tackle in 1974. but made the all- conference squad on defense in '75. "This didn't surprise me. either." said.

"The way the scouts had Ibeen taking. I guess some think I may have a better attitude for a shot at Lloyd said he considered it an asset to be selected by an expansion team. "Everybody will be on the same level and it will be more of a benefit to me. No one is going to be established." Lloyd leaves April 23 for a three-day acquainted session scheduled for i the draft choices at Seattle. It will be iused to familiarize the draftees with i the infant Seattle organization.

i Lloyd admitted he didn't really think i about the draft until yesterday, but everyone started asking, "how high do think you'll go?" MISHAEL KELSON every week. We feel it is a good incentive for our kids to know the competition and what is thought of that competition." Ray Floyd Leads Masters Golf, But Jack's Lurking in the Pack AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) A sixth Masters championship looks like fair game for the "Golden Bear." Jack Nicklaus trails pacesetting Ray Floyd by two strokes going into today's second round, but he missed a half dozen putts of 15 feet or less on Thursday and firmly predicts that's not going to happen again. "I'm a better putter than that," he says. "I had a lot of putts of 10, 12, 15 feet and didn't make them.

I'll make them next time." Floyd capitalized on a new five-wood to birdie three of the four par-5 holes at the Augusta National Thursday and shot a seven-under-par 65--one stroke Den King. Lubbock Coronado. "I don't believe you can use newspaper stones to get a team read to play. Readiness comes from being totally prepared. That takes hard work in practice and planning sessions.

However, I do think there arc umes when clippings can be used James Odom, Lubbock Monterey. "I use whatever tool that is available and ethical for motivation. The to motivate players separates the good coaches from the average ones do not rely heavily on newspaper stories for motivation, but I have none "I have ever, used some of vours to help motivate myself. off the Masters' record. Andy North had a 66.

But it was the 67 by Nicklaus that most worried the rest of the field because that showed that the man favored to win the Masters is on his game. Nicklaus' bid for his 17th "major" golf title appears to be aided by the fact that those expected to be his most serious challengers got off to sluggish starts. Hale Irwin, Hubert Green and Johnny Miller all had first-round 71s and Tom Weiskopf, second four times in the previous seven years, and Gary Player both had 73s. Floyd, who won three tournaments Including the PGA championship in 1969 and didn't win again until the 1975 Kemper Open, reeled off four straight birdies on the back nine Thursday to vault into the Masters' lead. He took his lone bogey at No.

2, then got cranked up on the next hole. "I was really pumped up on the back nine," said Floyd, a far more serious golfer than he was a decade ago when he was one of the more renowned playboys of the tour. "I have a good attitude about this tournament. I've been working hard." Seven golfers, one-tenth of the field, were in the 60s Thursday. Larry Ziegler matched Nicklaus' 67, U.S.

Open champ Lou Graham had a 68, and Dave Hill and Bud AUin had 69s. Fourteen others broke par. The starting field of 72 will be trimmed to the low 44 scorers at the end of today's second round. Those in trouble include Lee Trevino, former Masters champion Gay Brewer and Greensboro winner Al Geiberger who all had 75s Thursday. Sam Snsad, who will be 64 next month, shot even-par 72 and four-time Masters champ Arnold Palmer had a 74.

Reds Pound Astros, Brewers Blank Yanks By United Press International The Cincinnati Reds performed to the manner born when they began the defense of their world championship. With a hometown crowd of 52,949 looking on at Riverfront Stadium, the Reds opened the National League season Thursday with an 11-5 victory over the Houston Astros. The Reds made it look easy as Tony Perez drove in four runs and Joe Morgan and Pete Rose each had three hits in a 15-hit assault on six Houston pitchers. The Reds clinched the decision with a five-run sixth inning with George Foster's two-run single the big blow. Jim Slaton pitched a four-hitter and Hank Aaron drove in three runs as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated Jim Hunter and the New York Yankees.

5-0, in the American League's opener. The Boston Red Sox begin the defense of their AL title Friday against the Orioles at Baltimore with Oakland at California. Minnesota at Texas and Kansas City at Chicago in other AL games. Montreal is at New York. Chicago at St.

Louis. Atlanta at San Diego and Los Angeles at San Francisco in NL games. "This was a fun day," laughed Cincinnati Manager Sparky Anderson after the game. "One game doesn't make a season and we've got 161 to go but this was a fun day." Gar' Nolan allowed four hits and six runs in 5 1-3 innings with Pedro Borbon taking over in the sixth and allowing one run and five hits the rest of the way. The Reds scored four runs off J.R.

Richard in four innings and continued their attack on five relievers- Cesar Cedeno and Bob Watson hit homers for the Astros. Slaton. 11-18 last season, walked three, struck out one and allowed only two Yankees to advance as far as third base. A crowd of 44.868 in Milwaukee saw Aaron deliver a two-run, bases-filled single off Hunter in the first inning and then single home Darreil Porter in the second inrting. Hunter, pitching on his 30th birthday, was 3-0 against the Brewers last season and started the game with a 164 lifetime mark against them.

"The power just isn't there any more." commented Aaron in jest after the game. "Besides. I've hit enough home runs." Ford MayVisit Rangers Tonight ARLINGTON, Tex. (AP) President Ford may toss out the first ball of the Texas Ranger baseball season tonight in Arlington Stadium, Rangers General Manager Danny O'Brien said Thursday. The stadium was surveyed Thursday by Secret Service agents and O'Brien said this meant the odds are now 5050 that Ford would accept O'Brien's first pitch invitation.

O'Brien said he made the invitation to Ford 10 days ago. According to Ford's Texas schedule, the President will attend a fund-raiser in a Dallas hotel before going to Irving, a Dallas surburb, for a speech. NEW YORK (UPI) The National Football League's annual college player draft crawling along at a snail's pace, crept into its final day today with very little name talent available for the last 10 rounds. The NFL's 28 clubs needed more than 14 hours and a special decision by Commissioner Pete Rozelle on Thursday to complete the first seven rounds, the slowest selection process since the merger of the two football leagues in the mid 1960s. Rozelle waived the 9 p.m.

EST deadb'ne for drafting Thursday raght because of the sluggishness of the selecting, and the Pittsburgh Steelers made the final pick on the seventh round at 12:02 this morning. The only "known" players still left when drafting resumed today were Virginia quarterback Scott Gardner, Long Beach State's Herb Lusk, the nation's No. 2 rusher, and Indiana's Quinn Buckner, a star defensive back before he turned his attention solely to basketball and helped lead the Hoosiers to the NCAA title. Tampa Bay opened the draftinR Thursday as expected by taking Oklahoma's star defensive tackle, Leroy Seimon, and Seattle, the other expansion dub, pulled a mild surprise by passing over California running back Chuck Muncie to take Steve Niehaus, the Notre Dame defensive tackle who has had surgery on both knees. Team Listed on Page 30 Then the rush was on for running backs, with Muncie's selection by New Orleans opening the way for six runners on the first round, capped by Cincinnati's choice of Archie Griffin, the two- time Heisman Trophy winner from Ohio State, as the 24th player.

Other running backs grabbed off on the first round were Oklahoma's Joe Washington (San Diego), Purdue's Mike Pruitt (Cleveland), Texas AM's Bubba Bean (Atlanta) and Wyoming's Larry Gaines (Detroit). The New York Jets pulled one surprise, taking quarterback Richard Todd Kyle Impressed Cowboys, Landry DALLAS (UPI) The postseason collegiate all-star games are usually touted as an opportunity for potential superstars to display their talents. And Aaron Kyle took advantage of his big chance last vcsr Kyle played in the Blue-Grsy game, the East-West Shrine game and the Senior" Bowl. And when Dallas coach Tom Landry saw Kyle in those contests he was quite impressed. Those impressions were still with the Dallas coach Thursday.

"I guess 1 liked Kyle more than other defensive backs because I saw more of him in the all-star games." said Landry. "He is not big. but he is wiry and tough. I never saw him back away from anybody." Kyle stands an inch below six feet and weighs less than 180. But Landry said Kyle was the No.

1 defensive back on the Cowboys' draft list. Player personnel director Gil Brandt added that Kyle was ranked in the top 10 among all the collegiate eligible for the draft. What impressed Dallas scouts the most was the intensity with which Kyle plays the Rame. Cowboy safety Cliff Harris is reputed to be one of the hardest hitters in the game and Kyle could follow in that tradition. "I'm known for my hitting," Kyle said.

"I like to hit I get a kick out it. I guess you could say that was one of my strong points." Dallas also bolstered its running back depth by using a second-round choice to select Iowa running back Jim Jensen. The Cowboys then selected offensive guard Jim Eidson of Mississippi State, wide receiver Duke Fergerson of San Diego State. running back John Smith of Boise State and wide receiver Michael Johnson of California-Riverside. of todd is the first quarterback ever chosen on the first round by the Jets since Joe Namath was taken from Alabama in 1965 and only the third passer the club has picked overall since then.

The New York Giants also had a mild stunner with the selection of little- known Troy Archer, a defensive end from Colorado, as their first pick, but otherwise, the choices were predictable. New England used its three first- round picks to take defensive back Mike Haynes of Arizona State, center Pete Brock of Colorado and safety Tim Fox of Ohio State, Chicago took tackle Dennis Lick of Wisconsin, Detroit named defensive back James Hunter of Grambling, Cincinnati took wide receiver Billy Brooks, the third Oklahoma player in the first 11 picks, and Kansas City selected Iowa tackle Rod Walters. Denver took Virginia guard Tom Classic, Miami named Arizona State linebacker Larry Gordon and San Jose State defensive end Kiin Bokamper, Buffalo grabbed Oregon defensive back Mario Clark and Baltimore took Purdue defensive teckleKer, Novak. St. Louis selected Arizona defensive tackle Mike Dawson, Green Bay grabbed Colorado tackle Mark Koncar.

t. i Minnesota named Oklahoma State defensive tackle James White, Los Angeles listed Colorado State linebacker Kevin McLain, Dallas took Wyoming defensive back Aaron Kyle and Pittsburgh grabbed off Clemson tight end Bennie Cunningham. Tampa Coach John McKay made it a matched set in the second round when he took the younger Selrnon brother, Dewey, also a defensive tackle from national champion Oklahoma. It marked only the fifth time in NFL history brothers have been taken in the same draft. There were some other interesting developments in the early draft Thursday.

Pittsburgh and Oakland both added their fourth quarterback in the second round, the Steelers taking Boston College's Mike Kruczek and the Raiders naming Jeb Blount of Tulsa. Cincinnati took kicker Chris Bahr of Penn State, the North American Soccer League Rookie of the Year last season, also on the second round, and Oakland, apparently set in its kicking game with Ray Guy and George Blanda, took Boston College kicker Fred Steinfort on the fifth round. Trading was unusually light on the first day of the draft Outside of a few (Sec DRAFT or. Page 30) 1404W. 10TH 373-8687 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS! Lauders Scotch Echo Springs 56 proof, Straight Bourbon 5th Ezra Brooks proof, Straight Bourbon 5th ft qc 86 proof, HALF GALLON 1-2 Gol.

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