Sept. 21, 2005
After a two-day break following last Saturday's 20-10 victory at Army, the 3-0 Baylor football team returned to practice Wednesday afternoon on the grass practice fields at Floyd Casey Stadium. The Bears, idle this weekend, open Big 12 play Oct. 1 in an 11:30 a.m. contest at Texas A&M which will be televised on Fox Sports Net.
Wednesday's practice included special teams work, a 20-minute individual fundamental session and head-to-head competition between the Bears' top offensive and defensive units in various game-type situations.
"We want to keep today and tomorrow short and crisp," said Baylor coach Guy Morriss. "Then we'll give them three days off and I expect that they'll come back mentally fresh and ready to go back to work."
Baylor will practice at 3:10 p.m. on Thursday, then break for the weekend before returning to the practice field Monday evening.
Notes: Former Baylor head football coach Grant Teaff, the current executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the AFCA's Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. It marks the second straight year an individual with Baylor ties has been honored by the AFCA, as the 2005 winner was former Bear Hayden Fry, who made his mark in college football as a head coach at SMU, North Texas and Iowa. Teaff is the winningest coach in Baylor history and led the program to eight bowl games and a pair of Southwest Conference titles during his 21-seasons in Waco ... Baylor's Big 12 opener will be televised by Fox Sports Net, marking just the fourth time that its Big 12 lid-lifter has been televised ... Baylor junior QB Shawn Bell (China Spring, Texas) was one of 11 players from around the nation selected to the AFCA's Division I-A Good Works Team for his efforts in the community ... Single-game tickets for Baylor's remaining home games are on sale through the school's Athletic Ticket Office (1-800-BAYLOR-U) ... Baylor reported no serious injuries from Saturday's game at Army ... Baylor's No. 2 LT Travis Farst (Cedar Part, Texas), who has been sidelined since early in fall camp with a kneecap injury, practiced Wednesday and is listed as probable for the Texas A&M game ... Baylor swept through the non-conference portion of its schedule without a loss for the first time since 1996 and just the 15th time since 1915.
