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The Corps Invades
Mascot Corporal John Harris and Company E2 escort Reveille III down Commerce Street on her first Corps
trip.
The 1966 Corps Trip to Dallas might well have been called the Ag
gie Weekend. Although some Dallas weekends are reputedly wilder and
less inhibited—one, in particular, involves some sort of inter-state rivalry,
according to informed sources—the Aggies were very much in evidence
Nov. 4-6 in the Dallas area.
Friday afternoon, the advance units swarmed over the campus of
Texas Woman’s University in Denton. A few hours later, when the
dances honoring the Aggies began, it became manifestly clear that the
latecomers were at a disadvantage.
The next morning, under one of those skies known as a photog
rapher’s nightmare, the Cadet Corps marched through downtown Dallas,
warming the partisan crowd’s hearts with such cheerful cadence calls
as “I don’t know, but I’ve got a hunch—SMU is out to lunch.” The rest
of the day was best summed up in an old Aggie saying: “We got out-
scored. but we beat the hell out of the parties.”
Saturday night, like the night before, was characterized by over
flowing motel rooms and slept-on floors in the homes of the few students
from Dallas.
And Sunday, several thousand glum Aggies were reminded of an
other old saying as they passed highway markers on the way home:
“Highway 6 runs both ways.”
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Squadron 5, above, gives “eyes right” as they pass the reviewing
stand. Dallas police department, right, gives band director Lt.
Col. E. V. Adams a joy ride. Fish and sophomore bandsmen, be
low, form guard line around van to assure orderly unloading of
instruments for the 272-piece band.
Ruperto Martinez, Joey Weber and Francis Bourgeois pre
pare guidons, colors and rifles for distribution. Eddie Ren-
barger and Don Ray get finishing touches from their wives.