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Page 12 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1980 TAMU awaits the Rice MO! Director promises not to start a riot By BOBBY SWANSON Battalion Reporter The “MOB” is coming. For the first time since 1972, the Rice Marching Owl Band, better known as the MOB, will be at Texas A&M University to perform a half-time show. And its director promises it “will not try to start a riot.” A near-riot was what happened on Nov. 17, 1973, when the MOB performed a show at Rice Stadium that some Aggies said added insult to the 24-20 A&M loss. The drill imitated the Aggie Band playing an out-of-tune “War Hymn” while doing an out-of-step block T. Sometime between the block T maneuver and the formation of a large fire hydrant (for Reveil le’s convenience), many of the Texas A&M fans got upset. At the time, MOB Director Bert Roth declined to use the word “upset” to describe his feelings. He said “irate” would be a better choice of words. The MOB waited more than two hours in the south end of Rice Stadium before law enforcement officers could escort them to safety. The 1973 Texas A&M University student body president, Randy Ross, wrote a letter to several Rice University officials, including Rice University President Norman Hackerman. Ross condemned the per formance. At the time, Hackerman said, “We expect the ‘MOB’ won’t be doing what it did to the Aggies for a while.” Roth sent an apology to Texas A&M University. “We certainly did not intend any offense to Aggie tradition Safe day,” Roth said then. He added discretion would be used in thefutic when poking fun at universities that “do not appreciate it.” Under the direction of Kenneth W. Dye, the MOB will makeitsfin appearance at Texas A&M University in eight years. “We are going to do a show that will be entertaining with a lot contemporary music,” Dye said in a telephone interview Thursda “We will continue to have fun with schools that won’t be ofiended we will be rather conservative at A&M.” “Most of the new MOB members are not afraid about the gametlj Saturday, but some of the older students are, especially someoftl* graduate students that were there in 1973,” Dye said. “We’ll try to be funny but we’ll be safe about it.” Vol. 7‘ 12 Pa Pots of Pride Sale Only 50,000 fans expected for Saturday’s Rice game By RICHARD OLIVER Sports Editor The Texas A&M football team may be looking for the silver lining in its troubled storm cloud Saturday, but the search will be made in front of fewer fans. Through Thursday, only 20,250 student seats had been sold for this weekend’s game, and A&M officials don’t expect many more to be sold today. Jim Kotch, A&M ticket mana ger, said the University has only been averaging 350 tickets sold on Fridays. At the present rate, Kotch esti mates there will be approximately 50,000 fans present. “After we count the season ticket holders, comps (complimentary seats), gatemen, security guards, the band and concessions, we should have about 50,000,” he said. “If we were 6-0, we’d probably have a full house, even though we’re playing Rice.” Associate Athletic Director Wally Groff said attendance has always fal len as the final home games draw near. “Toward the end of the year, you always have a drop in ticket sales,” he said. “Traditionally, games always drop way down.” According to the ticket office, be fore the first three home games stu dents picked up 74,900 tickets for ballgames against Penn State, Texas Tech and Baylor. 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