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'ay through Friday , except for holiday riplions arc Slfila r and $35 per full ‘quest. ti Reed McDonald .'ollcffe Station, TX Station, TX 7784$ Monday, December 16,1985/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Twelfth Man Tradition also evolves at U.S. Military Academy By SONDRA PICKARD St a El Writer When the cadets of the U.S. Mili tary Academy pulled open their coats for TV cameras during the re cent Army vs. Navy football game, many were wearing t-shirts that read, “12th Man: A Tradition Re born.” Yes, it’s true. The T welfth Man does exist beyond the confines of College Station and, like the Aggies, the cadets at West Point stand up during their football games. The Twelfth Man at West Point is similar to Texas A&M’s in that their cadets show a willingness and enthu siasm in supporting their team as if they were part of it. The tradition of A&M’s Twelfth “Obviously Texas A&M is well-known and most ev eryone who follows foot ball will say it (the Twelfth Man) comes from there. ” — Col. Morris J. Herbert, secretary West Point Asso ciation of Graduates. Man began Jan. 22, 1922, when the Aggies played the Praying Colonels of Centre College in the Dixie Clas sic, a forerunner of the Cotton Bowl. As a result of numerous injuries to the players, the 18-man team was reduced to 11 men. With three quarters left to play, Coach Dana X. Bible called an A&M student out of the stands to suit up in case another player was needed on the Held. Although he never actually played, E. King Gill, a basketball player and former' football team member, volunteered to suit up and stand with the team, thus becoming A&M’s original Twelfth Man. Since then A&M students have stood during football games as a symbol of their readiness should the team need assistance. But the history of the Twelfth Man at West Point is more difficult to pinpoint, although, some people have an idea. Col. Morris J. Herbert, a 1950 graduate of the academy, is now re tired and serves as the secretary of the West Point Association of Grad uates. Herbert says West Point started playing football in 1890 and had many successful seasons. “Until 1940 we had only one los ing season and ran all over everybo dy," he says. “Who needed to stand up back then? I suspect we didn’t have the tradition because it just wasn’t necessary.” Then in 1949, Herbert says, the cadets decided to stand up during the Navy game to force the rest of the crowd to stand in support of the Army team. “It wasn’t a tradition then,” Her bert says. “We just did it, and since that time it has generally been tradi tional for the Corps of Cadets to stand during the football games. We’ve done it off and on for years depending on how serious the game West Point had successful teams in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but be tween 1973 and 1983 Herbert says they had only one winning season. “During that period the Twelfth Man probably got started,” he says, “I think, as another means of sup porting the team. It didn’t really evolve from a specific incident but I have a hunch the tradition that was started at A&M was probably picked up at West Point in later years, al though I just don’t know for sure. Obviously Texas A&M is well-known and most everyone who follows foot ball will say it comes from there.” West Point’s cheerleader coach, Maj. Richard Kerivan, says since the arrival of Coach Jim Young three years ago, the football team has been doing well. Herbert says this resulted in a marked increase in enthusiasm from the students, thus explaining the “reborn” tradition. Kervian says, “Army football is now on a roll and in terms of our re cord we’re doing much better, but also in terms of the confidence of the football team, the support of the Corps of Cadets and the community to the football program, it’s light years ahead of what it was. “It’s almost phenomenal the dif ference that I’ve seen in my three years here.” Deputy Athletic Director Col. A1 Vanderbush says he knows of no specific incident that perpetuated the Twelfth Man at West Point. “Even in the late ’50s when I played for West Point, we talked about the T welfth Man but didn’t really publicize it much,” Vander bush says. “Just like at A&M, it’s the feeling that the students support the team. “The football team comes from the Corps of Cadets and they’re al most like one body, so somehow the cadets were dubbed the Twelfth Man.” Vanderbush says the idea of a Twelfth Man at West Point is strengthened by the fact that none of the Army football players are on scholarship. “They’re all paid as cadets, not players,” he says. Nick Farmer, a cadet and co-cap tain of the West Point cheerleading squad, says the tradition of the Twelfth Man originated in 1968, the year West Point was invited to the Sugar Bowl. It was their first bowl bid ever, but the Department of Defense denied Army’s participation in the game be cause of the Vietnam War. To show their support for the football team, Farmer says, the ca dets took all of the sugar bowls out of the mess hall and then someone started referring to them as the Twelfth Man. “The next football season the ca dets started chanting ‘The Twelfth Man is here. The Twelfth Man is AG MAJORS Animal Production Field Study Course Trip January 9-18th. 1986 The annual Animal Production Field Study Course will tour 44 Central and West Texas animal or animal-related operations. The owners and/or managers visit with students while touring these operations. This allows students to see concepts in action that are studied in classes. We will tour the following: Elm Creek Dairy Moore Swine Farm Glaser Catfish & Beef Ranch T Half Circle Miller Swine Farm Cawley Goat Ranch Lampasas Quarter Horse Stud Kothmann Lamb Feedlot Riverside Farms Whiskey Canyon Ranch Sparger Swine Farm Shelton Ranches Purina Mills Y 0 Ranch Gore Dairy Crawford Quarter Horse Farm Fenton Laying Hen Unit Alta Verde Feedlot Vinson E T Lah & Ranch Chaparossa Ranch Abilene Cattle Feedlot Callaghon Ranch Anson Veterinaiy Hospital San Jose Cattle Co. John Bill Oman Ranch SW. Stallion Station Gooch Packing Co. Elgiv Breeding Service AGCO Feed Co. Producers Lamb Auction Hodges Ramboulliet Ranch McDonald Stud and Vet. Clinic TAMU Angelo Center If interested in going, come to meeting at B p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, Rm. 113 Kleberg. Course is Animal Science 400, Sec. 501-2 hr. credits in Spring semester. If Can’t attend meeting, call Howard Hesby for more information. Course trip is open to all Ag. majors. “(The Twelfth Man) didn ’t really evolve from a specific incident but I have a hunch the tradition that was started at A&M was probably picked up at West Point in later years. — Col. Morris J. Herbert. here’ at the Army-Navy football game,” Farmer says. “Now at every Army-Navy game we wear the Twelfth Man jersey.” In 1971 the athletic department officially retired the number 12 foot ball jersey, saying that no cadet foot ball player would ever wear the number 12 again because it was re served for the Corps of Cadets. At every home game, Farmer says, a senior cadet is picked to be the Twelfth Man for that game. The chosen cadet wears the number 12 jersey and stands with the football team during the entire game. MADD providing extra help over holidays By MONA L. PALMER Staff Writer President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Congress have designated the week of Dec. 15-21 “National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.” “President Reagan, in designating this week, calls attention to the need for all Americans to drive more care fully during the holiday season and throughout the year,” says Kirk Brown, president of the Brazos County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “MADD chapters across the country are organizing an all-out effort to combat alcohol abuse and drunk driving during this holiday season.” Don Clark, another member of MADD, says the organization is sponsoring a free ride home pro gram as part of the “Holidays Ahead” campaign of the Brazos Val ley Development Council. MADD thought taxi services could take care of drivers on New Year’s Eve, but Clark says only one taxi was available that night four years ago, and it stopped running at 10 p.rn. MADD started the free ride cam paign when the organization real ized there were no taxis available, Clark says. Clark says he drove people home from parties and bars for two years. The people weren’t belligerent, he says, and they appreciated having a ride. But Clark says the drivers take two precautions anyway. They won’t drive someone who passes out home, he says, and they always will go in pairs. Response to the program was good the first year but has been de creasing over the last three years, Clark says. He thinks the decrease is because people are beginning to take more responsibility for their actions. According to the National High way Traffic Safety Administration, alcohol is involved in over two mil lion motor crashes each year. Over 700,000 persons were injured last year in alcohol-related crashes and over 50 percent of the drivers killed last year legally were intoxicated. A few years ago people worried more about being caught by the po lice than about being in an accident, Clark says. But over the last five years people have become more aware that they could be in an acci dent and kill themselves or someone else, he says. Clark says the organization is ad vertising the free ride home pro gram in bars and pushing the desig nated driver program because the holidays are the most dangerous time of year. He doesn’t expect a lot of business New Year’s Eve because of the desig nated driver program and because of growing public awareness of drunk driving, he says. He believes the response has de creased because people aren’t going out to drink as much. People are staying home more and having friends over instead of going to bars, he says. MADD is not against drinking but against driving drunk, Brown says. More than half of MADD’s mem bers have lost a loved one because of drunk driving, he says. It’s a nee dless loss that ordinary citizens can do something about, he says. Students can donate used Christmas trees to B-CS needy Texas A&M students should take their Christmas trees to Duncan field before leaving for the holidays instead of throwing them away, says Dr. Larry Stern, assistant professor of sociology. After the trees are taken to Dun can field, they will be transported to the Twin City Mission in Bryan, Stern says. The mission will then dis tribute them to needy families in the area, he says. Stern also says pickup trucks are desperately needed to transport the trees to the Twin City Mission. “If anybody has a scheduling problem with picking up and trans porting the trees,” he says, “then he should call me and we’ll work some thing out.” Students can deposit the trees at Duncan until Friday, Stern says. 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