Tuesday, March 3, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
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s j-int-sized yell leader amuses,
ouses crowds at A&M games
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By Angie Matocha
Reporter
It’s a close game. The Aggies are
lead by one point, and the Aggie
ach calls for a time out. On cue, all
Kyell leaders lead the Texas A&M
ins in a yell.
Traditionally, A&M has five
:cted yell leaders, but as of Fall
19S5 they’ve had a sixth —Tommy
even thtfcunkleman, a 6-year-old from Col
ust realftlege Station who nas been entertain-
beneficupg spectators at volleyball and bas-
Ithshodff 3 ' 1 S ames u for two s f a * ons -, ^
I *• Tommy, the son or Ronald and
Iinvest« iaron Kunldeman, began his
ouhenijjnusjng antics after he first at-
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lolleged-l A New Braunfels teen-ager was
ed on dftdicted Thursday for aggravated
be achitP sau b > n connection with a Nov. 23
■t-and-run accident that occurred
. onthe Texas A&M campus.
" . orcrt i Witnesses said Roxanne Williams,
e interest i7 ( hit Richard H. Cutrer Ir., 21, on
the sc his motorcycle as she nulled
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rking Annex 24 onto Bizzell
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Williams, who was visiting a
iend, was arrested and charged
th driving while intoxicated and
■ilure to stop and render aid at the
icky. Ttupne of the accident,
t its fooil Bob Wiatt, director of University
d with wbee, said the DWI charge is pen-
ients iti?P n 8- Williams will be tried in the
th 1 ■* sl ^ razos County Court. The
leir Twirl date is pending.
« tar len Qit re r suffered a skull fracture in
mgulaiK the accident and was in a coma for
v the Reiieveral days. He is recovering at the
Bexas Institute for Research and Re-
^radi/anhubilitation in Houston.
tended Aggie football and basketball
games witn his family last year.
Mrs. Kunkleman says Tommy got
his start when he began going on the
court at basketball games with the
yell leaders and they seemed to en
joy him.
“The yell leaders told him that he
needed an outfit like theirs,” she
adds. And Tommy’s grandmother,
Alene Steenson, obliged by making
an outfit for him.
“I have a buckle just like theirs,”
Tommy says.
“He does wear his uniform to the
Aggie football games,” Mrs. Kunkle
man says. But the A&M officials
won’t let him go on the track at Kyle
Field, she says. “That makes him
very irate because he feels he should
be down there with the yell leaders.”
Tommy has attempted to learn
the A&M yells both from the yell
leaders ana from watching them on
his own.
Troy Ireland, senior yell leader,
says, “He gets confused sometimes
with the yells, but I think he’s funny.
When he does the yells with us, he
steals the show.”
Tommy has received a favorable
amount of publicity in the commu
nity with pictures of his antics adorn
ing The Battalion, the Bryan-Col-
lege Station Eagle and the cover of
the December 1986 edition of Texas
Aggie magazine. But Tommys’s big
gest thrill came when he appeared in
a small clip about an Aggie volleyball
game report on the KBTX-TV 10
p.m. news.
“He was so excited he couldn’t
wait for his daddy to come home to
tell him about it,” Mrs. Kunkleman
says.
A kindergartener at South Knoll
Elementary School in College Sta
tion, Tommy says he likes going to
school. His mother boasts that his
teacher has hung his picture in his
classroom.
Tommy says Marty Holmes is his
favorite yell leader.
“I like him because he has a bald
head,” the blond youngster says, ref
erring to Holmes’ Corps-style hair
cut. “Next time, I’m gonna get one.”
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Tommy Kunkleman polishes his yell leader belt buckle.
Mrs. Kunkleman says, “He had
his hair shaved before basketball sea
son, but it quickly grew out.”
The pint-sized yell leader, who
has attended all the home volleyball
games and one home basketball
game this season, probably will con
tinue performing at Aggie events for
as long as he can get away with it, she
says.
“I’m gonna be a yell leader and
play football,” Tommy says.
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