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Page 5 • The Battalion
Season's first yell
practice based on
history, tradition
By Jan Higginbotham
The Battalion
Mi
idnight yell practice is one tradition
that almost every Aggie knows
about. The yell leaders lead a few
yells and tell a fable, the War Hymn is
played and then the lights go out so every
one can kiss their dates. This practice is nec
essary because of the tradition that says
when the team scores on the field, Aggies
score in the stands.
But there is more history behind the tra
dition than most people realize.
As early as 1913, companies in the Corps
of Cadets learned and practiced yells.
The first midnight yell practice was held
1931 before the A&M — University of
Texas game. A group of cadets suggested to
senior yell leaders Horsefly Berryhill and
Two-Gun Herman that all the freshmen
meet on the steps of the YMCA Building the
night before the game to practice yells.
The yell leaders said they could not au
thorize the meeting, but that they might
show up if all the cadets were there. Rumors
soon spread about the yell practice, and a
new tradition was born.
Midnight yell practice is held in the
horseshoe of Kyle Field the night before a
home football game. The yell leaders lead
the Aggie Band and Company E-2, the com
pany responsible for Reveille Vi’s care, into
the stadium.
Yell practices for away football games are
held at the Grove, near the intersection of
Old Main Drive and Wellborn Road. Yell
Practice is also held in the town of the op
posing team the night before the game.
Senior Yell Leader Henry Hewes said yell
practice is all about showing support for the
A&M football team.
“Yell has been called the largest orga
nized riot allowed by law,” Hewes said. “We
cram about 40,000 Aggies into Kyle Field to
show support for the football team. We want
to show them that the Twelfth Man is there
lot them.”
Hewes said the tradition started when
A&M did not have a successful football team.
‘It was a good-bull time for all the Ag-
Battalion File Photo
The yell leaders will lead tonight's yell practice in the horseshoe of Kyle Field.
gies,” he said. "Whether we were going to
win or lose, yell practice gave everyone a
chance to come together to share in the Ag
gie Spirit.”
Laurie Hearn, a senior agricultural jour
nalism major, said yell practice has always
been one of her favorite traditions.
“It is a great feeling,” Hearn said. “It’s
more than just a chance to practice yells and
mug with your date, it’s a time to really feel
the Aggie Spirit.”
Hewes said midnight yell practice is one
way to keep all Aggies close as a group.
“What’s friendlier than to bring 40,000
people together for a celebration of the Aggie
Spirit?” he said.
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Simon and Taylor re
unite for benefit show
WEST TIS-
BURY, Mass.
(AP) — Fans
of Carly Si
mon and
James Taylor
lay nobody
Joes it better.
The two
lingers — who
»ere divorced
in 1981 — ap
peared onstage
together
Wednesday night for the first
time in 16 years.
Their benefit concert on
Martha’s Vineyard raised
5200,000 for the local Agricultur
al Society’s new bam.
Simon let Taylor know there
fere no hard feelings about their
breakup, according to Sara Ed-
Simon
wards, a reporter for Boston tele
vision station WHDH who at
tended the concert. Cameras and
working media were kept outside.
“This is how I feel about
James Taylor,” Simon report
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sion of her hit song “Nobody
Does it Better.”
Fans gave the show a thumbs-
up.
Simon and Taylor are long
time residents of the island, a
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Struggle with addiction
marked Garcia's death
NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry
Garcia died smiling.
“It’s strange to say, but he
looked so peaceful,” Deborah
Koons Garcia wrote in the Sept.
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“I said to the guy at the fu
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Did you do that to him?’ And he
said, ‘No, that’s exactly the
way I found him.’ His face was
so at peace.”
The magazine invited Koons to
write a column after Garcia died
of a heart attack Aug. 9 at a drug
rehabilitation clinic at age 53.
The Grateful Dead leader
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widow wrote.
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don’t want to do it for the rest
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He then checked into Serenity
Knolls near San Francisco
when “he found himself drawn
back, wanting to do drugs
again because his body hurt so
much.” He died at that clinic.
Garcia had used heroin
shortly before his death but
hardening of the arteries killed
him, a coroner said.
Slater's new arrival
may be a super girl
LOS ANGELES (AP) — He
len Slater’s new daughter will
be a super girl if she takes af
ter her mom.
Slater, who starred in Super
girl and also has appeared in
Ruthless People and City Slickers,
gave birth to Hannah Nika
Watzke on Monday.
Slater, 31, is married to film
maker and editor Rob Watzke.
She recently signed with Viacom
Productions to star in a television
series based on Operating In
structions, Anne Lamott’s autobi
ographical account of the birth
and first year of her son’s life.
Hannah weighed in at 7
pounds, 10 ounces.
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