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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1979
Gig ’em!
Annual Aggie-Longhorn football showdown
sets stage for A&M’s wildest weekend
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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.
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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.