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Friday, September 17, 1954
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By JERRY WIZIG |
(v ' Battalion Sports Editor'
Five of the Southwest Conference’s seven.: teams open
the season Saturday, and four of them figure to start the
year right.
On the first big day of the 1954 season, \ye pick them
this way, but advise you not to bet on them: <
Texas Tech over A&M, 28-14.
Baylor over Houston, 21-7. I '
Rice over Florida, 26-20. * j ’
TCU over Kansas, 14-13.
Texas over LSU, 28-13. |
Paul (Bear) Bryant’s debut in
the conference figures to be a los
ing one, anyway you look at it.
Tech has 24 lettermen back from
last year’s squad, including boys
like Tackle Jerry Walker, Quarter
back Jack Kirkpatrick, Guard
Howard Hurt, Fullback Jim Sides
and Halfback Rick Spinks.
However, the Raiders may show
a marked decline at the halfbacks,
where they lost their first five of
last year, Bobfcy Cavazos among
them.
Even with this big manpower
difference between the two teams,
A&M, probably the most intensive
ly coached team in the SWC this
(See FOUR, Page 7)
Student Body Stands Ready a complete optical service
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Whether the Aggies win, lose,
or draw, the whole state of Texas
knows the 12th man on the team—
the Texas A&M student body.
For each student gets on his feet
at the opening kick-off and re
mains standing through the final
whistle or gun as a symbol of
readiness for duty should the 11
men on the gridiron need assist
ance and replacement.
The Twelfth Man tradition was
bom in Dallas, Jan. 2, 1922 in a
game between the Texas Aggies
and the famous Praying Colonels
of Centre College.
Centre had electrified the foot
ball world in the 1921 season by
turning up with a wonder team.
Talk grew and grew of matching
a game between Centre and a team
from the Southwest conference.
That meant Texas A&M as the host
team, as the Ags had won the SW
title in the 1921 season.
As the game entered the fourth
quarter the Aggie coach, Dana X.
Bible, now athletic director at
Texas University, saw his light but
fast backs one by one being carried
off the field. With some time left
to play, Bible was down to one
backfield substitute.
Then he remembered a sopho
more back who had been working
out with the squad all season, a
boy named King Gill with plenty j
of heart but without the weight
and experience. Gill had not been
taken to Dallas with the team but
he had gone to the game and was
in the stands with the Cadet Corps.
Bible sent a yell leader into the
stands to find Gill and to tell him
to suit up and join the squad on
the bench. Gill did not play in the
game but since he was called upon
from the stands and was ready he
became the first “Twelfth Man.”
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