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In his first season, 1971–1972, Brown earned second team All-Southwest Conference honors, leading A&M with a 16.9 scoring average in conference play and helping the team to a 16–10 record. The following year, his senior year, Brown was selected as team co-captain, and averaged 13.4 points and 4 assists per game as the Aggies ranked second ...
Campbell named Donnie Little, who was the first Black quarterback at Texas, Roosevelt Leaks, Raymond Clayborn and Ricky Williams as players for whom Whittier paved the way. [6] "Julius paved the road that gave us the opportunity," said Roosevelt Leaks, who was the first black football player from Texas to earn All-American and All-Conference ...
The Junction Boys were the "survivors" of Texas A&M Aggies football coach Bear Bryant's brutal 10-day summer camp in Junction, Texas, beginning September 1, 1954.The ordeal became the subject of a 2001 book by Jim Dent, The Junction Boys, [1] and a television movie with the same title produced by ESPN, starring Tom Berenger as Bryant.
The Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team represents Texas A&M University in NCAA Division I college basketball.The Aggies compete in the Southeastern Conference.Since 1998, the teams has played its home games at Reed Arena, a 12,989-capacity arena in College Station, Texas on the campus of Texas A&M University.
First team with five African-American starters to win the NCAA basketball tournament: 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team; First African-American coach in the National Basketball Association: Bill Russell (Boston Celtics) First African-American (mixed-race) model on the cover of a Vogue (British Vogue) magazine: Donyale Luna
Gerald Louis Carter (born June 19, 1957) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the ninth round of the 1980 NFL draft. A 6'1", 190-lb. wide receiver from Texas A&M , Carter played in 8 NFL seasons from 1980 to 1987.
Blanks was an All-American member of the Texas A&I Javelinas from 1960 to 1963. He was inducted into the Texas A&I Hall of Fame in 1981. In 2002 he was inducted into the Lone Star Conference Hall of Fame. Recruited by College Football Hall of Fame coach Gil Steinke in 1960, Blanks was the first African American to play in the Lone Star ...
This is a list of Texas A&M Aggies football players in the NFL draft. Key. Pro Bowler = Hall of Famer: B Back K Kicker: T Tackle: C Center: LB Linebacker: FB Fullback: DB