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Aaron Rents Furniture 1816 Ponderosa-College Station 693-1446 Showrooms located in: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Charlotte, Clearwater, College Station, Columbia, S.C., Dallas, Denver, Durham, El Paso, Fayetteville, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Worth, Greensboro, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Kansas City, Lubbock, Memphis, Miami, Midland-Odessa, Nashville, New Orleans, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego, Tampa, Tucson, Tulsa, Virginia Beach, Washington, D.C. A&M traditions never die By LESLIE HEFFNER Reporter Traditions and Texas A&M are cliches that never end. Aggies have even given tradition their own meaning — anything that’s done more than once. The oldest tradition known to Texas A&M is “once an Aggie always an Aggie.” The First Texas A&M class to graduate is said to have started it. Puryear Hall, one of the oldest dormitories, also can be thought of as the originator of midnight yell practice. Harry E. Allen, Class of ’32, re called his memories of the First prac tice in a letter to the University ar chives. It was written a few days before the 1932 Texas game: “Some of us were gathered in Pur year Hall in the room of Peanut Owens. He was a junior yell leader. He had on a pair of red pajamas and a red baseball cap. I believe it was I who told him, ‘Peanut, we ought to have a snake-dance at Tatoo and you lead it.’ Someone said to go alert the band in Foster and others to go to all the dorms close by and have all the freshman turn out. “We then got in touch with Horse fly Berryhill and Two Gun Horman from Sherman, both senior yell lead ers, and asked about having all the fellows Finally congregate at the ‘Y’ for a midnight yell practice. They told us they could not personally au thorize this but if we did congregate, they would happen to be there at the ‘Y’. “As per usual, we had lots of rail road Hares and torpedoes on hand. We took some over to the ‘Y’ and stuck them in the flower tubs that were there and that was the start of our midnight yell practice.” Howdy, one of the more famous Aggie traditions, was unheard of in 1928. Students would walk to their classes without talking to each other. No one really knows when the tradi tion originated. The Traditions Council, hoping to keep Aggies friendly, will form a Howdy Squad next fall. “The squad will consist of a group of Aggies walking around campus saying ‘howdy’ to everyone they see,” says Karen Bloch, traditions council treasurer 1983-84. Howdy is not the only friendly sign Aggies display. Twenty yams to go, ten ... touch down. Every time the Aggie football team scores, Aggie men give their date a kiss. Like countless other tra ditions, this one probably will sur vive. Although these traditions and many others — such as the Twelfth Man, Silver Taps, Muster and bon fire — have existed for years, some traditions have begun only recently. One of these is a three-dap^ end. Aggies seem to thinkthatf lessors will excuse them fromFr. classes because they stayed uptoj socializing at Northgate. Some- g ies go to the Chicken or Dut •raw. Others just enjoy fraternir in the front of the Northgate^ and restaurants. Whateveritmai:, Thursday night at Northgate has« come one of the most popularr>, traditions. “Are you going to graduate time?” is a question many Aggies^ each other. When the answer is a look of amazement usuallyappj on the questioner’s face only beau* of another new tradition which J “You can either graduate with class or on time.” A new tradition women ougt: | like" is a switch for the kickoff.ij lions council plays a big part it) J moling the tradition. It seleds®! game a year women can ask fotn dates. With all the kisses, the howtil and the all-mghters, Aggiester^T get hungry. Archie’s Taco Bell,M Hamburgers, and Dominos Pizzail’ the spot about 2 a.m. when them. I chies set in. Aggies not only have old and nri traditions, but they have whatoj might call “pre-traditions.” A gott example of tins is the 1984editions pre-registration. Everything wemj planned, but it will havetohappe twice to become an Aggietraditioii Uncommon traditions not unusual to cadets By JULIE ENNIS Reporter During the Texas A&M football season, Duncan Dining Hall can sound like a barnyard yell practice. The junior cadets yell suey before the Arkansas and Texas A&M game. The sophomore cadets moo be fore the University of Texas and Texas A&M game. The senior cadets wager bets that their outFits will get a higher grade than another. And no one is eating pineapple. What? Greg Lengyel, Corps wing com mander, says canned pineapple used to have an orange tint to it, hence, no cadet can eat the tinted fruit in Duncan Dining Hall until the t.u. (that’s the University of Texas for the uninitiated) football team is beaten. These lesser known football tradi tions are common to the corps of ca dets. Pat Hamilton, a senior physical education major from Lubbock, says traditions help camaraderie. To symbolize an Aggie’s desire to “spur the ponies,” freshmen cadets wul string flattened bottle caps on coat hangers and attach them to their shoes with boot bands a week before the Southern Methodist Uni versity and Texas A&M game, he says. “Traditions vary from outfit to outFit,” he said. ‘^Sorne outFits re quire the f reshmen to useonlyloa Star bottle caps for their spurs. others require the same numbers caps as their graduation year.” Hamilton says the juniors in b squadron will often wake the W men to shine the statue of Sull to before a home game. Some traditions associated *t football games are moresentimeni to senior corps members, Hamik says. At the UT game, the seniorspit the juniors one of their spurs is wear, he says. “This show's that they (thesenion are going to graduate soonandlean the leadership responsibilities lotk juniors,” he said. The Twelfth Man Kick-off Team was Jackie Sherrill last year to utilize the origi* formed by Texas A&M Head Football Coach nal twelfth man tradition at A&M. Standing for football games signifies Aggies’ support By PAM BARNES Reporter No one really knows when the tra dition of standing during Texas A&M football games actually began, but many “old Ags” attribute it to the day when a young cadet was called down from the stands to play for the badly injured Aggie team. Because of that day in 1922 when E. King Gill stood ready to play, if needed, the Corp of Caaets, and the entire student body, now stand from kick off until the end of the game. They represent that Twelfth Man, just like E. King Gill, ready to play for their team. Gill wasn’t the only Aggie to suit up for a team in need and no one is sure exactly when the cadets started standing at games but it’s a tradition, and Gill is remembered as the origi nal Twelfth Man. The story goes like this ... ... It was a cold day in Dallas when the Aggies were playing the Praying Colonels from Centre College in the Dixie Classic, the forerunner to to day’s Cotton Bowl. Three players from the opposing team were named All-Americans and the Ag gies were expected to lose badly. Coach Dana X. Bible was faced with an empty bench because of injuries. E. King Gill, a basketball player and former football player, was in the press box spotting plays for a Waco sportswriter. Gill was called down to the Field and shielded by blankets as he donned one of the in jured player’s uniform. Gill never had to enter the game, but his [presence on the bench p' 1 the Aggie team the confidence® Fight. They won 22 to 14. E. King Gill told the HousWj Press in 1956: “I wish 1 could safl ran for the winning touchdown,Wj I didn’t. I simply got ready ai® waited —just in case I was needed E. King Gill died in Decent 1976 of a heart attack. He was ^ years-old. Today a monument of Gill in I® 1922 football uniform stands at Kd Field, representing the readiness® 1 all Aggies to stand up for their tea® The monument was donated byd* Glass of‘80. Its inscription briefly tells d* story of the twelfth man. MostAf gies know the story by heart, buty® 1 can bet any one of them will taked' time to tell it to a newcomer.