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oom in the county jail for 45
Aggies’,” said Warren Neeley, class
af l'>78, as he recalled the trip he
ook as a Texas A&M student to an
iway game versus Texas Tech.
was on the Student Aggie Club,
now 12th Man Foundation, charter
buspo Tech in either ‘76 or ‘77. The
30-year-old bus with crappy air con
ditioning broke down on the road just
short of Abilene, in a year long
before cell phones,” Neeley said.
“Hours passed trying to get the bus
fixed. Finally, the charter company
said they were sending a replacement
bus, and they would haul us back to
College Station, not to the game.”
^■Jnw illing to give up on the goal
to make it to Lubbock, Neeley and a
few others in the group hitchhiked
into Abilene.
ith the help of a fellow Aggie
giving them a VISA card number,
they rented enough cars to carry the
group the rest of the way.
“We made a pact that (even
though) it was too far to make the
gam' and unsafe to try that speed, we
were gonna go get with the Ags that
took care of us,” Neeley said. “Well,
the caravan takes off. The game
comes on the radio. Ags score, lights
flash, horns honk and we speed up a
little. Texas Tech scores, same thing.”
The group arrived at the stadium
justps much of the crowd was leaving.
“We see Texas Tech score, we see
the Aggies score two Tony Franklin •
fiel(^ goals and one touchdown, and
the Ags win the game,” Neeley said.
■ W inning the game is what stu
dents hope to see when they follow
the team to any destination.
Kathleen Jansen, class of 2002,
had a positive experience at the
Pittsburgh game earlier this month.
She currently lives in Wilkes
Barre, Pa. and made the five-hour
drive to Pittsburgh for the Aggie
game against the University of
Pittsburgh this season.
u
I go around whooping
all the time, and I wanted
to show (my roommates)
that there were other
people like me.
— Kathleen Jansen
Class of 2002
“I met up with a friend from
Toledo, Ohio, and two others from
Washington, D.C. I took two of my
roommates: one who graduated from
Notre Dame and the other from
University of Portland, to yell,”
Jansen said. “1 go around whooping
all the time, and I wanted to show
(my roommates) that there were other
people like me.”
Every Thursday night before an
away game. Midnight Yell is held on
campus at The Grove.
On the night before the game,
there is another Midnight Yell sched
uled at a designated site in the city
where the game will be held.
Jansen said her friends didn't come
to the game with her the next day.
“1 was actually sitting in the
alumni section with the players’ fam
ilies. We were right next to the band.
though. It was the first time I've ever
sat down for a game and it was very
bizarre,” Jansen said. “The yell lead
ers were right in front of us so
whenever they did a yell we stood
up. There were maybe 10 people in
our section who were standing. So
we were up and down the whole
time. It was great seeing lots of
maroon again.”
Many students want the players to
see a sea of maroon when they make
the trip to an away game.
The 12th Man Student Foundation is
planning a group trip to the Oklahoma
State University game in November.
“We are actually staying in
Oklahoma City and taking the 12th
Man charter bus,” said Angela
Milmo, a senior sports management
major. “We are in the process of find
ing out about Midnight Yell. We will
probably just go out to eat as a
group, but we are looking through a
brochure about Oklahoma city and
the attractions there. Pretty much the
game will be our focus.”
Luann Hedrick, class of 1998,
warns that obnoxious fans at away
games are to be expected, but there is
“a huge difference between obnox
ious and rude.”
“1 had a few Ohio State fans who
stood outside the game after it was
over-we lost by eight points—telling us
how our team shouldn’t have even
been there, because we weren't nearly
on the same level, and went as far as to
make fun of my mom, who was with
the group at the time,” Hedrick said.
However, Hedrick said her worst
experience was at a game in Austin
in 1995.
“1 remember t.u. fans throwing
full souvenir size cups of Coke at
Reveille that the Corps guys had to
defend her from,” Hedrick said.
“Throughout the whole game I heard
comments about Aggie women and
how they were planning to throw a
few Aggies into their fountain and,
of course, a lot of comments 1
wouldn't repeat.”
ANGELIQUE FORD • THE BATTALION
Hedrick had a suggestion on how
to handle such situations.
“Best thing to do is ignore them
unless you want to end up in a fight,”
she said. “We got our revenge with a
win.”
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