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Friday • October 25, 1996
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Corps spurs shoes for spirit
Highs & Low
Today’s ExpectedrM
Dave House, The Battalion
leaders have guided students through yells at football games and midnight yell practice since the Texas Tech game in 1932.
ech game anniversary of first yell practice
By Melissa Nunnery
The Battalion
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MCA building.
Today, yell practice is more orga-
ized. It is led by five yell leaders who
reelected by the student body.
Yell practice has been at different
ilaces on campus in the past. It has
m on the steps of the YMCA building,
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en the Aggies took on the
Texas Tech Red Raiders in
932, a Texas A&M tradition
as born — yell practice.
A Traditions Council brochure said
ie first yell practice was formed when
Field. Now yell practice is held at Kyle
Field on Fridays at midnight before
home games. Before away games, it is
held Thursdays at The Grove.
Joe Fenton, curator of the Sam FIous-
ton Sanders Corps of Cadets Center, said
the first yell practices resembled events
at Ivy League schools.
“It started out with an Ivy League ap
proach with megaphones, but it got
away from that,” Fenton said.
He said legend explains why yell
leaders must be juniors or seniors.
“At football games they (upperclass
men) would send freshmen and
sophomores out (on the field) to enter
tain the dates of the upperclassmen,”
Fenton said. “The dates thought the
underclassmen were so cute that they
were hanging over the railing trying to
talk to them.”
Fenton said the upperclassmen were
upset by their dates paying attention to
underclassmen, so they made being a
yell leader a senior and junior privilege.
Dr. Joe West, Class of ’54 yell leader
and former president of the Association
of Former Yell Leaders, said one of his
favorite memories of yell practice is
when Paul “Bear” Bryant, former A&M
and Alabama coaching legend, greeted
the student body.
“Bear escorted the whole team on the
stage (at the Grove) and the head yell
leader introduced Bear,” West said. “He
slid off his tie and threw it out to the
See Yell, Page 4
By Kimber Huff
The Battalion
T his week, campus has been more
noisy than usual.
Blame it on the Corps of Cadets
freshmen and their “fish spurs,” which are
spurs made from painted bottlecaps
on wire coat hangers.
Steven Foster, Corps com
mander and a senior politi
cal science major, said
freshmen in the Corps have \
worn “fish spurs” for more
than 34 years.
The spurs were originally
worn by freshmen for five days
before the Southern Methodist
University game.
“The idea was to ‘spur the Ponies,’”
Foster said.
Freshman Lee Doggett, a political sci
ence major from outfit A-2, said fish
spurs are used to make fun of the other
team’s mascot.
“It’s like saying, ‘Even our fish are bet
ter than your mascot,”’ Doggett said.
To keep the tradition from dying now
that Texas A&M and SMU play in separate
conferences, freshmen wear the spurs be
fore the Texas Tech game.
Foster said the spurs work just as well
with Texas Tech’s mascot, the Raider on
horseback.
“Their horse has been kind of infa
mous,” Foster said.
Foster said the different outfits deter-
?m a bonding
thing/'
Allen Thomson,
^ member of
Company:
mine what the spurs will look like.
“This is not a strictly-monitored pro
gram,” Foster said. “As long as they wear
them, they’re fine.”
Most spurs are made by crushing bot
tle caps (some obtained from Bottlecap
Alley), hammering holes in them, string
ing them together on a wire coat hang
er, and molding the spurs to fit on
the fish’s shoes. The bottle caps
are painted according to the
freshman class color. This
year, the bottlecaps are red in
M honor of the Class of 2000.
“We got together as a fish
class and made ours,” said
Company B member Allen
Thomson, and a freshman elec
trical engineering major. “It’s a
bonding thing.”
“I like them,” Mike Robinson, Squadron
12 member and a freshman agriculture en
gineering major. “It’s more of a unity thing.
Even if it were just my outfit doing it, I’d still
want to do it just because it brings every
one closer together.”
Some squadrons from the Air Force use
their squadron number to determine how
many bottlecaps should be on each spur.
Most outfits require freshmen to have 100
bottlecaps, also called a “class set.”
Upperclassmen will sometimes count
the bottlecaps on a freshman’s spurs to
make sure the freshman is not “pulling
out” by using less than 100.
See Spurs, Page 4
Rachel Redington, The Battalion
Freshmen in the Corps show off their spurs, which are made of bottlecaps and wire.
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