Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1979)
Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1979 Aggies’ victory had fans flying to airport By Kathleen McElroy Battalion Reporter The end of the Texas A&M-Penn State football game marked the be ginning of a wild Aggie victory celebration that reached its peak at Easterwood Airport Saturday night. Thousands of Aggie fans — cur rent students, former students, and would-be students — crammed into the small airport to greet the Braniff 727 jet that carried the Aggie team, 27-14 winners over the Penn St. Nittany Lions in University Park, Pa. Estimates of the crowd ranged from five thousand to ten thousand. The crowd started arriving at the airport around 9 p.m. Saturday. The usual procedure for the greeters was to ask an airport worker what time the plane was arriving, get a soft drink or candy bar from a small snack bar, and then go outside and lean against the small wire fence that separates the runway from the rest of the airport and wait. The plane was sheduled to arrive at 10 o’clock but airline officials told the crowd the plane would arrive at 10:50, which was when it finally ar rived. At first there were only enough people to line the fence, but by the time the plane arrived there were rows of people lined up behind the fence. The situation got so bad that people started to climb on the roof covering the area behind the fence to get a better view. Police officers who had arrived to control the crowd ordered them to get off the roof. The crowd amused itself by doing yells and singing Aggie songs. How ever the leaders of the yells got the words wrong a couple of times and started to sing “The Spirit of Aggie- land. ” Before the plane arrived, the biggest excitement was a television camera that was filming the crowd. The noise became louder, and everyone seemed to explode with energy and even more spirit. The crowd settled down when the cam era stopped filming. The crowd went wild when the plane was sighted and everyone started singing “The Aggie War Hymn.” “I think we re a bunch of nuts,” said Margaret Singley who had worked her way close to the fence. The plane looked as if it had been captured by an army of erratic army ants. People completely surrounded the plane waiting. There was hardly any room for the passengers of the plane to deplane — the crowd had them completely surrounded. As each person left the plane a whoop was sounded even if that person wasn’t a football player. The flight attendants who were cheered as they left the plane, seemed startled by all the hoopla. For some of them, this was their first experience with the Aggies. “This is my first experience with this,” said Leigh Sims with a smile. Yusef Lasana also said this was his first big encounter with this type of greeting. “This is great,” he said. “They (the football team) were great. ” Derrick Grubbs, who works in the sports information office, was making his first jet trip with the team and said the team knew there might be a crowd but no one ex pected a mob that size. “You could hear the roar out side,” Grubbs said. “The engines were loud, but you could hear.” Sipe, Browns bomb Cowboys, 26-1 United Press International CLEVELAND — Brian Sipe fired two touchdown passes and free safety Thom Darden ran back an interception for another touchdown Monday night to lead the undefeated Cleveland Browns to a surprising 26-7 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Sipe brought the Browns out like gangbusters in the first quar ter, hitting on scoring passes of 24 yards to wide receiver Dave Logan and 52 yards to tight end Ozzie Newsome. Darden then intercepted Roger Staubach’s pass and re turned it 39 yards for touchdown to boost Cleveland to a 20-0 lead with 7:55 left in the first quarter. Staubach, stymied repeatedly by an often heavy Cleveland pass rush, finally got his club going later in the first quarter, connect ing with wide receiver Tony Hill on a 48-yard TD strike. Neither team scored in the second quarter, but Cleveland’s defense came up with several big plays to stop Cowboy drives. Staubach had a bad handoff ex change with running back Tony Dorsett on the Browns’ 2-yard line, which was recovered by linebacker Dick Ambrose to end what looked like a certain Dallas attempt by Rafael Septien. Sep- tien was wide to the right on a 47-yard attempt on the last play of the first half as the score stood at 20-7. Despite winning its firstl! games, Cleveland was a t! point underdog. Instead, Browns manhandled a tears went to the Super Bowl last TEXAS HALL OF FAME score. Later in the second quarter, reserve tight end Curtis Weath ers blocked a 35-yard field goal “You could feel the force of the people against the plane. I was proud. ” “It had to be a great ending to a great day,” he said. your maiketpiacel Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 R. Clyde Hargrove DOS, Inc announces the association of Dr. Gordon Walling for the practice of general dentistry. Patients will be seen by appointment from 10 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. 1313 Briarcrest Dr., Bryan (in Cedar Creek Plaza) Office 779-1933 Home 779-7462 ATTENTION TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE announces a NOVEMBER 1, 1979 deadline for application for the 1980-81 medical school class. All applications and supporting materials must be turned in to the Office of Stu dent Affairs, College of Medicine by this date. Exception will be made for sopho mores who need complete only the application form by the November 1 dead line. Applications are available from the pre-med advisor, Dr. Gilbert Schroeter, Biology Building or the Office of Student Affairs, 301 Doherty vr MSC Town Hall Option Pass holders! liown holliV Priority period to purchase tickets for Mel Tillis is Sept. 24-28. Tickets not purchased at this time will be released for sale to the general public. OPENING ALL PADS Legal Pads, Scratch Pads, Memo Colunm Pads & Etc. OFFICE SUPPLIES Look For Grand Opening Bargain Tables With Items Up To 50% 20% off ALL 1980 DATED MERCHANDISE 20% Off ALL PAPERMATE WRITE BROS. Stick Pens All Colors 19* Medium Point ALL BRIEF CASES 20% O off ALL PENTEL ROLLING WRITERS 69* 3M Magic Tape Buy 12 Rolls and Get Dispenser FREE IN STOCK ONLY! Swingline Staples < 5 ' 000 PLASTIC BOX) $149 GRAND OPENING DOOR PRIZES Prizes to be given away t.2fi Sept. 28 Superior clerical chair with casters Anderson Hickey 2-drawer filing cabinet Osterizer blender Permanent pigment oil painting set Permanent pigment acrylic color painting set 14-piecr ounch set 2 Funk & vvagnalls 2-volume dictionary set Oxford carryfile Swingline tacker staple gun 2 tennis sport bags 1 box assorted stationary by Montag 1 box assorted National tracing pads Pickett parallel bar drawing board Apsco electric pencil sharpener 2 coffee mug sets Panasonic AM-FM digital clock radio Staedtler Mars 7-tech pen set Staedtler Mars master bow compass Alvin drawing instrument set Insulated water jug set 50 ft. Keson fiberglas measuring tape Bulletin cube note holder Lietz 100 ft. fiberglas measuring tape Vinyl brief case Vogel Peterson wall mount coat rack Pentel pen & pencil set ART DEPARTMENT CHARTPAK 30% r o Discount CRESCENT BOARD 20% Discount GIFT DEPARTMENT ALL LASERCRAFT DESK & ACCESSORIES 20% boff AT Redmond Terrace Shopping Center Videocass oadcasts a ding C. I Loaning oi by an a M librarit Austin, w oject, sai ilti-media ALL MECHANICAL PENS & PENCILS 'o off The Texas lion of ov . Some j e are re< lections ft stem’s ser .udes “Tl Long S borrox 'tie sugge plication ' ent, locate one w< g. The Ex ct the Tex deocassett ttroxver deocassett g The dep; ptalog of tl