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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1966
Number 344
Town Hall Tops Weekend Slate
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Victory Hungry Ags Seek First Win Against Tech
Red Raider Clash
SWC Opener
By GERALD GARCIA
If past Texas A&M-Texas Tech games are any indica
tion, tomorrow’s 7:30 p.m. affair in Kyle Field should
provide plenty of fireworks.
For the last several years, a big play late in the game
has decided the issue.
Last year, after the Aggies had taken a 16-13 lead on a 41-yard
pass from Harry Ledbetter to Jim Stabler, Tom Wilson, Jerry
Shipley and Donny Anderson collaborated on 49-yard pass-lateral
to give Tech a 20-16 victory. In fact, 19 points were scored in a
97-second span in the last three minutes of the game.
TWO YEARS EARLIER Dave Parks ran through two Aggie
defenders and took a diving catch in the end zone for the lone
touchdown in Tech’s 10-0 win.
Kyle Field was the site for Aggie heroics in 1962. Tech
went ahead 3-0 on H. L. Daniel’s field goal but Dan Mcllhaney
took the ensuing kickoff on the goal line and raced 100 yards for
the Aggies’ last second, 7-3 triumph
These are just a few of the many big plays which have highlighted
the series, led by A&M 15-8-1.
Tech is ahead of the Aggies in Southwest Conference contests,
3-2-1.
Tomorrow shouldn’t be any different in the fireworks department
because both teams have potentially explosive offensive units.
TECH WILL FEATURE the SWC’s total offense leader in
quarterback John Scovell, son of Field Scovell, who played guard for
the Aggies when the A&M-Tech series started in 1927. Scovell
has amassed 415 yards, 375 passing and 40 rushing in two games.
Meanwhile, the victory-hungry Aggies might have found the
offensive combination that was missing in the opener against
Georgia Tech two weeks ago. Coach Gene Stallings made some
changes and last week’s Tulane game showed that the Aggies still
needed some polish. Stallings feels that after a week of practice,
the Aggies are ready to go.
The changes saw Ed Breding moving from tight end to tackle
! Tommy Buckman replacing Breding at end, Tommy Maxwell starting
at split end and Edd Hargett taking over at quarterback from Harry
Ledbetter, who moved to defensive rover.
With Scovell wielding a hot passing arm and Hargett fresh
from setting a new school record of 21 completions, a passing duel
is anticipated. Scovell has attempted 57 passes and completed 27
with one interception, while sophomore Hargett is 25 for 47 with
two swipes.
Tech has the league’s top receiver in Larry Gilbert, who has
caught 13 for 212 yards and two touchdowns. The Aggie receivers,
Lee and Maxwell, rank fourth and seventh, respectively, in the
conference. Lee has snatched eight for 99 yards while Maxwell has
five receptions for 73 yards.
BOTH TEAMS ARE also blessed with standout sophomore
punters. Tech’s Kenny Vinyard leads A&M’s Steve O’Neal by
four-tenths of a yard average-wise. Vinyard has punted 11 times
for a 43.5 average, while O’Neal has 12 attempts for 43.1.
Tech lists 33 lettermen on its squad while the Aggies have only
| 22 back, but both teams have 13 two-year lettermen.
The Red Raiders run from a tandem “I” offense, pioneered
in the Southwest by King. The Raiders have led the conference
in rushing the past two seasons after they shifted to the I. A&M
also operates from the tandem “I,” starting operations on it this
season.
Both teams might be slowed a little by injuries. The Aggies
will have safety George Walker and halfback Lloyd Curington
out, with five or six other players expected to play but with
some sort of ailments. Tech will be minus safety Bob Bearden,
who has yet to play a down this season because of a knee injury.
STALLINGS AND KING said their respective teams had good
workouts this week, with Wednesday being the last day of contact
work. Each team was to workout today in sweatsuits.
The Aggies will enter the game — the first of their three home
| games, all booked for October — with an 0-2 record, losing to
I Georgia Tech, 38-3, and Tulane, 21-13, while Tech is 1-1, beating
Kansas and losing to Texas.
Mike MistoVich and Jack Dale will handle the announcing for a
20-station Humble Network hookup. Radio KORA will broadcast
i. in the Bryan-College Station area.
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At Ball Game Tomorrow
Rev HI Makes Debut
Coquettish Reveille III, fast be
coming the first lady of the Texas
A&M student body, makes her
home football debut at the Aggie-
Texas Tech game tomorrow.
The 7:30 p.m. kickoff marks
Grad Students
Get More Seats
Graduate students will have an
additional section on a one-game
seating basis for the Texas A&M-
Texas Tech football game Satur
day, announced Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan.
“The Athletic Department is
making section 139 available on
an optional basis to any graduate
student that wants to sit there,”
the dean said.
The section of 904 seats is lo
cated south of visiting students
sections on the east side of Kyle
Field.
Sbisa Offers
Special Dinner
Before Game
Sbisa Dining Hall will offer a
new food service for campus foot
ball visitors beginning tomorrow,
Sbisa Manager Harold Thearl has
announced.
The cash cafeteria at Sbisa will
serve a complete chicken dinner
at noon and evening meals on
game dates. The cafeteria will
be open from 11 a.m.-l:30 p.m.
and 5-6:30 p.m., Thearl said.
The chicken dinner, at $1.25 per
person, will include vegetables,
dessert and beverage. Other foods
will also be available, he noted.
“This regular game weekend
service will allow football visitors
to dine in leisure and comfort,”
the Sbisa manager remarked.
CASH
CAFETERIA
Rev Ill’s first official home game
appearance.
The six-month old Collie pup,
who made Final Review last
spring as Reveille II retired, at
tended the A&M-Tulane game in
New Orleans this weekend.
She spent the summer at the
home of a San Antonio cadet.
The purebred Collie, now stand
ing three hands tall, was the gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Husa
of Fairbanks, Alaska. Her dona
tion to the students was arranged
by their twin sons, Randy and
Steve Andes, both cadets.
Rev III made one other official
appearance this year, attending
services for Reveille II. Rev II
died Aug. 23 but the service was
postponed until the students re
turned to the campus.
The roommate of Mascot Cor
poral John Harris of San Antonio
and Chris Seay of Austin has yet
to lose puppyish ways and be
come a complete lady. Rev III
accepts any opportunity to frolic
and causes problems when her
caretaker unit, Cadet Company
E-2, stands inspection.
Students Asked
To Remove Cars
Texas A&M students who live
in dormitories have been urged to
help Aggie football fans tomor
row.
“To relieve the parking prob
lem,” requested Campus Security
Chief Ed Powell, “we are asking
dormitory students parked in the
temporary lot east of Kyle Field
or on the Law Hall lot to move
their cars by noon tomorrow.”
Powell said students may move
their cars to day student and
staff parking lots east of Asbury
and north of Ross.
“As gracious hosts,” he com
mented, “we should allow visitors
more parking space near the sta
dium.”
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
“We have to keep our shoes,
rugs and things out of her reach,”
one E-2 cadet remarked. “She
loves to chew on them and that
doesn’t help a shoe shine.”
Christy Minstrels
Perform Tonight
By JOHN HOTARD
Battalion Staff Writer
A performance by the New Christy Minstrels tonight
kicks off weekend activities which also include midnight
yell practice and Texas A&M’s Southwest Conference foot
ball opener.
The Minstrels, a swinging American folk singing group,
open the Town Hall season at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
The first of eight Town Hall presentations, the group won the
heart of young folk singing America in 1964 with singles such
as “Green, Green,” “Saturday Night,” “This Land is Your Land” and
“Chim Chim Cheree.”
Instruments used by the Minstrels include guitars, banjo, cow
bells, wash boards, bugles, fifes, auto harps and double bass
tipple.
One of their latest accolades was the background score for the
comedy Civil War movie “Advance to the Rear.”
Tickets are still available at the Student Programs Office of the
Memorial Student Center.
The traditional midnight yell practice will follow Town Hall.
Reveille III makes her first home game debut tomorrow night.
She will march in with Company E-2 and maybe get some practice
in at halftime by chasing photographers off the field.
The Aggies make their 1966 Southwest Conference debut against
Texas Tech tomorrow in Kyle Field. The Aggies are looking for
their first win of the season. Both teams are fresh from defeat,
A&M by Tulane and Texas Tech by Texas. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Civilians must have a seating card for home games to be
seated in the proper sections. Freshmen will enter through ramps
J and K; sophomoroes, ramps L and M; juniors, ramp N, and
seniors and graduate students, ramps O, P and Q.
The weather outlook is good. There is a chance of showers
all day today and tomorrow morning, but the cloudiness should
break by game time. Temperatures should be in the low 70’s.
The 25th Anniversary reunion of the Class of 1941 is scheduled
for today and tomorrow at the Ramada Inn. Approximately 350
former students are expected for the gathering. Highlight of the
reunion will be an 11:30 a.m. luncheon tomorrow.
Sbisa Hall will offer a complete chicken dinner tomorrow at
noon and evening meals in the cash cafeteria. The cafeteria, on
the first floor, will be open from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 5-6:30 p.m.
The dinners are $1.25 per person.
The 272-man Texas Aggie Band will provide the halftime per
formance at the game. Bandsmen will play for the 25-minute march
in of the Cadets Corps, beginning at 6 p.m. Halftime drill will
include a sideline to sideline entrance and will end with the Aggie
Band’s famous signature, the block T. The T is not normally
employed in the band’s first halftime performance.
Commandant’s Secretary
Retires After 44 Years
By JOHN FULLER
Battalion Staff Writer
If you think 44 years as a
secretary in one organization
sounds like a dull existence, just
talk to Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, secre
tary to Cadet Corps Commandant
Col. D. L. Baker.
Mrs. Cook, who will retire to
day after serving since 1922 at
A&M, says she has had “the best
job imaginable, and met the nicest
people in the world, during my
years here. I feel that life has
sort of come to me.”
The grandmother of three, who
holds a degree from what was
once known as Baylor Female
College at Belton—now Mary
Hardin-Baylor College — admits
she probably could have gotten
further in her career had she gone
somewhere else, but she looks
back on her years here as “most
rewarding” and says she wouldn’t
take anything for them.
MRS. COOK began her career
as a “roving stenographer,” work
ing for the biology, entomology,
rural sociology, agronomy, and
school of vocational training de
partments. When a friend on the
Department of Military Science
secretarial staff left her job, she
asked Mrs. Cook if she wanted to
replace her. Mrs. Cook took the
opportunity, and in 1929 she
joined the department.
Under the administration of
Gen. George Moore, she started
working in the office of the com
mandant. Later, when wartime
conditions forced the use of
civilian commandants., she be
came secretary to the professor
of military science.
Her stint includes service under
the administrations of seven
presidents of the college and 11
commandants. Predictably, she
has built up quite a store of
anecdotes in her experience here.
“For awhile, I worked in the
old Ross Hall, which was later
torn down,” she recalls. “That
was really an epoch in my life.
It had been condemned several
years before, and it actually had
bats in the roof.
“The bats would gradually
multiply until they threatened to
take over the building, and then
someone would go up into the
attic and sprinkle lime around to
get rid of them,” she adds. “The
wildlife science people didn’t ap
preciate that, because there’s
some law against killing bats in
Texas.”
She remembers one particular
incident in which a bat appeared
in a doorway near her desk. “I
began screaming and I picked up
a wire wastebasket and threw it
at the bat,” she said. “I remember
it bounced right off, and then I
really started screaming.”
Another memorable facet of her
days in the building was the time
a skunk crawled under the floor.
“I’m the type of person who
always believes in calling the
man in charge,” she noted. “First
I called the Buildings and Utili
ties people and told them. They
said they couldn't do anything
about it. So then I called Presi
dent Bolton. He said, ‘Elizabeth,
I think the only thing in the
world you can do is keep that
skunk in a good humor’.”
AMONG THE sidelines of Mrs.
Cook’s work has been keeping
charge of Ross Volunteers’ rec
ords. The company was reorgan
ized following the end of World
War II, at which time Col. Guy
S. Meloy, then commandant,
turned over the RV secretarial
work to her.
Since that time, Mrs. Cook has
been a regular guest at RV ban
quets and is termed “Friend and
Supporter of the Ross Volunteer
Company.”
“My friends tell me I’ve been
brainwashed by my contact with
the Corps, and they’re right,” she
remarks. “It broke my heart when
we lost our military college rat
ing, and I fought tooth and toe
nail against the institution of
voluntary Corps and coeducation.
I guess you could call me sort of
Old Army.”
She called A&M’s military
training “the best in the world,”
adding that “It’s quite an experi
ence to see them come in as fresh
men and leave as seniors. They
really become men.”
DESPITE THE years of
change, Mrs. Cook believes “an
Aggie today is no different from
the first ones I ever knew. An
Aggie is always an Aggie.”
What are Mrs. Cook’s plans
after retirement?
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to
collect my thoughts anywhere but
behind this desk,” she remarked,
“but I’ve got a typewriter at
home, and I plan to do a lot of
reading and writing.”