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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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