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< Subject: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #80
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< True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
< Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #80, Thursday, August 16, 2001
< Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
< Phone
< 512-795-8536
<
< Williams, Benson Star as Horns Stress Running Game in First Scrimmage
<
< Sophomore Ivan Williams, the forgotten man at Texas, and true freshman
< Cedric Benson, the guy everyone can't wait to see, were the offensive
< stars
< of the first Longhorn scrimmage of pre-season football practice Thursday
< afternoon.
< Williams had more opportunities than anyone else and he took advantage of

< them, using his 6-1, 245-pound body to run for three touchdowns, all on
< 1-yard runs, and to gain 78 yards on 10 carries.
< "Ivan really stepped up," said head coach Mack Brown. "he weighs about
245
<
< pounds and he really did a good job for us today. He showed a lot of
power
<
< and determination."
< Benson, the phenom from Midland Lee, had five carries for 37 yards and
< also
< went 25 yards with a swing pass from QB Chris Simms. He made four yards
on
<
< one play that looked like it would be a four-yard loss. He has a great
< combination of speed, power and cutback ability.
< "Cedric has great quickness and great vision," Brown said. "He's a tough

< kid, too. Rufus Harris (freshman safety) really belted him on one run,
and
< he
< just hopped back up and went back to the huddle like nothing had
happened.
< He
< ran the ball a lot at Midland Lee with everybody keying on him, so he's
< already shown he's a tough runner."
< The coaches stressed the running game in the scrimmage, and Brown said
< that
< was because they had to work primarily on the passing game when they were
< in
< shorts and shells for the first several days of practice and also
because,
<
< "It's important that we have a good running game."
< He said the offense needs to make more time-consuming drives to "help
keep
<
< our defense fresh. We've got to use our offense to help our defense out
by
<
< controlling the clock a little more."
< The right side of the offensive line, with guard Antwan Kirk-Hughes and
< tackle Mike Williams, did a great job of run blocking throughout the
< scrimmage.
< Simms also had a good day passing, hitting 15 of 23 for 142 yards and a
< touchdown on a 16-yard completion to sophomore WR Sloan Thomas, who made
a
<
< great catch just before going out of bounds.
< But this was a day for running backs to shine, and starter Victor ike had
< 28
< yards on just four carries and also had a 37-yard run with a short pass.
< Redshirt freshman Sneezy Beltran had 40 yards on just two carries and
< junior
< Kenny Hayter had five carries for 34 yards.
< Sophomore DB Nathan Vasher had an 82-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
< Walk-on Mike Ungar had a 46-yard touchdown catch on a long pass from
< redshirt
< freshman QB Chance Mock.
< Senior QB Major Applewhite, working with the second-team offense
primarily
<
< against the first-team defense, competed 5 of 13 passes for 27 yards and
< sophomore safety Dakarai Pearson picked off one and would have run it in
< for
< a touchdown if the officials hadn't blown the play dead. Mock's only
< completion in three attempts was the long TD strike to Ungar.
< JC transfer Brian Bradfort\d, who appears to have nailed down the
starting
<
< punting job, had two punts, with one going 44 yards and the other going
< 43.
< On the down side, however, he did have one blocked.
< Freshman walk-on Dusty Mangum of Mesquite was the starting place kicker
< and
< he was three-for-three on field goals from 32, 46, and 26 yards out.
< The Longhorns will practice at 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday at the Denius
< Fields before having a second scrimmage at 9 a.m. Saturday in Royal
< Memorial
< Stadium.
< RECRUITING NOTES: With 12 commitments already, the Longhorns are about
< halfway through recruiting. Look for them to sign 12 to 14 more players,
< with
< most of them coming from a group that includes DT Roderique Wright of
< Alief
< Hastings, WR Marquis Johnson of Champaign, Ill.; DT-OG Kasey Studdard of
< Highlands Ranch, Colo.; RB Albert Hardy of Galena Park, LB Aaron Harris
of
<
< North Mesquite, DE Travis Leitko of The Woodlands, DE Larry Dibbles of
< Lancaster, DT Marco Martin of Mesquite, CB Ricky Wilson of Port Arthur
< Lincoln, DE Chase Pittman of Shreveport Evangel, DE Brian Pickryl of
< Jenks,
< Okla., DE Dontroll Coates of Anahuac, WR Biren Ealy of Cypress Falls, OL
< Justin Blaylock of Plano East, OL Tony Ugoh of Spring Westfield, OLBs
< Garnett Smith of Arlington Lamar and Glenn Jackson of Carrollton Turner
< and
< CB Donald Burgs of Houston Madison. There are some other guys Texas will
< get,
< too, but these are the ones who are the best bets now.
< My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.
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