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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1979)
Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1979 Gig ’em! Annual Aggie-Longhorn football showdown sets stage for A&M’s wildest weekend the When the University of Texas Longhorns come to College Station every second year to do battle with Texas A&M's Aggies a mass insanity seizes the community. It is a weekend blended of youthful courage, almost-religious fanaticism and drunken hell-raising. It is the finest of college football, especially when the Aggies win as they did this year, 13-7. c Jk'egotiatk County and over firefigh reached the ■College S volved in a c county over present cont Tthe conn lenever th |e the cit> [The city c Id for sev L years. T Ites, Brazi ition are Ire services jAlthough Bt have a e they do ha jails, and a biitract nej ■County J 1 |ho is repr !{he negotiat: |ot a new o ■ ‘This pro Bn, in Bn Jve to eight sen. "As nts in tl: iny peopl the c ;es, the a 1 Hind theii ;ons. Mi ,at I refer hese pe learned ices. Many di ire no lo ilmgreen. [realize tl city offei •al areas, iccordinj :re is no fvernmenl protection i Because gimunitie e seen fi :as and ilmgreen ire was a in they v\ [Doug Lar ief, said t mty and for quit illege Sti idget is ai ! During tl fire dept idget of $ le ofColh 1,688, idget, Lai |“In the fi ide a tott indua. “0 le of Coll [st us $14, hris m eady Comedian Ron Douglas, left, wowwed several thousand students as the warm-up act for the after- bonfire concert starring Pure Prairie League. Above right, Moses Hall residents whoop it up from the mule-drawn wagon they used to haul logs for the bonfire. Flaming erhbers from the Aggie bonfire trace glowing lines across the College Station sky Friday night. Battalion photos by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.