European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes gig pm aggie an expression Well known in the Southwest and Hoard frequently when Texas am alumni stationed in Ger Many hold their aggie Muster every april 21st. Along with the expression the aggie use a gesture of a clenched fist with the thumb extended and the upward motioning of the Arm. This signifies gig pm ies. Gene Stallings the Youthful aggie head football coach an athletic director a couple of thousands of Miles from College Sta Tion Tex heard the sound last week when he spoke to a group of Foggia alumni in Heidelberg. Three years ago speaking before a huge aggie group i Texas Stallings Laid it on the line just before his initial season As Tho youngest Southwest conference coach in la run the football program and you run your Banks feed stores and Chicken lots and Well get along just Fine stalling said in a firm direct manner. The aggie got the message and sure enough that s Why the Yare on top of the Sec Heap. Those familiar with the school of Texas am its students an alumni know they Are die hards. Aggie Are loud when they Are losing and Long and loud when they Are winning. Last year Texas am won the Southwest conference beat Texas and won in the Cotton bowl. That achievement will keep the aggie talking for 10 years at least. For those aggie in Germany who Haven t heard Texas a University and the United states military Academy better known As army in athletic circles have scheduled a two game series the first in the Long storied history of both schools. Up until a couple of years ago Texas am was one of the biggest Roth schools in the country with Over 8.000 members despite the drop the aggie still Are identified As a military school. And it has a military manner about it. So the big game the aggie is. Army has finally Bee scheduled. It is one that Many aggie have been waiting for years. Everyone is familiar with West Point but not everyone especially people in the East is acquainted with the aggie. Hordy not Iff or hello stepping onto the aggie Campus which is part of a 5,000-Acreplot, one is greeted with a then after a couple of More hoodies you in turn begin to say if you say Howdy 500 times you la say it 1,000 times. Forever aggie student just passing by will always give Forth with the cheerful greeting. It is never i or hello it is always Howdy. The Matching of the yell sections of am and army will bean interesting test in itself. Texas am without a doubt has the loudest Yelling not cheering Section in the Sec and on of the loudest m the country. One of the reasons for the loud am Section is that Thea Gies never sit Down during the game. It has been a tradition to stand the entire game except at halftime. So by standing everyone of the 10,000 students is Yellin mingled among them Are girl friends and dates and they must stand and yell also. The aggie have a deep Bass sound to their Yelling As com pared to contralto tone of other schools of which half of their sections Are made up of women. The aggie get a big kick out of mimicking the other schools cheering sections with a yell of its own. Like a Bunch of screech ing cats the aggie yell in women like fashion we hear you ladies then follow it with a deep Low pitch tone we love you there s not a school the aggie play that Don t feel this Little Pinch unless it is an All male school. It grates some of them especially Texas their most hated rival and vice versa aggie traditions in the stands Are Well known to other schools every time am scores a touchdown each aggie in the stands has the god Given right by aggie tradition to kiss his Date in front of thousands of fans and usually does. And the girl Friend always complies first Date or not. Bonus kiss for Pat or Fig there s a Bonus kiss for every successful extra Point or Fiel goal it is imperative that the aggie have a Good kicker each year but there have been some lean years much to the students dismay and every aggie knows what he is supposed to do when the on � the Ruby grabs Paul Revere Road race Bayton Beach Pla. A Veteran Lloyd Ruby of Wichita Falls tex., drove i front virtually All the Way to push Early morning darkness Friday and easily won the second Art Nual Paul Revere 250-Mfleroad race. It was such a Breeze for Ruby driving a 1967 Cougar that he finished More than 15miles ahead of runner up John Mccomb of Hutchinson kan.,and still failed to Brea k the 105.033 Miles an hour Recor Parnelli Jones set last year. Ruby s winning Speed was103.152 m.p.h., and he won 53,675, Indianapolis 500 Champion Bobby Unser of Albuquerque n.m., leaped from his fifth starting position into the Lead before half a Lap was run. Butan electrical fire under the Hood sidelined his 1968 Carraro before he could get credit for leading a full Lap. Led every Lap Ruby was in front every Lapland by the 23rd time around the 3.81-mile Road course had lapped Mccomb s 1968 Mustang. After 50 laps Ruby had Athree Lap Lead and extended it to four laps before the finish. Jim Murphy of Falls Church,va., made a late Challenge for second place but spun on the final Lap and finished fourth in a 196 Camaro. Peter Gregg of jacksonville.fla., was third in a porsche 911. This also gave Gregg first place for cars under two liners Piston displacement. Bob Tullius of Falls Church,va., second fastest qualifier in a 1968 Dart burned out a bearing on the second Lap and Harold Dunnaway of Gastonia n.c.,spun his Camaro on the pit Road in the 42nd Lap erasing two of the stronger challenges among the 24 Singer Marty Robbins of Nashville tenn., made handful of pit stops with mechanical trouble in his Dart an never was a threat. The Paul Revere 250 was Anele opener for the late Model Stock cars with the firecracker400 feature on the Holiday double Bill. Cleveland rallies with four in nth to topple Cleveland up Joe Azcue s two run double Cli maxed a four run eighth inning and Relief Pitcher Vincente Romo picked up his first major league Victory As the Cleveland indians Defeated the Minnesota twins 6-3, thursday. Cleveland began the eighth inning trailing 3-2 but singles by Vern Fuller Lee Maye and Russi Stryder knocked out twin starter bean Chance. Fuller led off with a single reds sink astros in ninth 7-4 Houston a Alex John son and Mack Jones each drove in three runs thursday night Ashe Cincinnati reds whipped the Houston astros 74.run-scoring ground outs by the pair in the third inning tie the game 2-2. Johnson then broke the tie with a run scoring single in the fifth. The reds put the game away with three runs in the ninth. Tommy Helms and Woody Wood Ward singled and Tom Dukes walked Pete Rose intentionally loading the bases. Johnson beat out an infield single for one run and after Wade Blasingame relieve Dukes Jones singled across two More. Jolted by a a boys and Dave Nelson ran for him Pinch hitter Maye sen net & third with a single and 2cardenal ran for Maye nel2 scored the tying run on Snyde single and Ron Perry replaced Chance. Tran i Max Alvis batted for Jim Whall and struck out h runners advanced on a a twitch and Lou Johnson a Given tin intentional we loading the bases. Al Worth ton replaced Perranoski and Carder a scored the go ahead run a we Ethington uncorked wild pitch. Snyder and Johnson score when Azcue hit a 3-0 pitch into right Field for a double. Romo allowed tvo hits an struck out five in five innings he was lifted for a Pindi hitter in the eighth and reliever Stan Williams sealed the Victory inthe ninth. The indians got to Chance 7-� for two runs in the fifth cutting the deficit to 3-2. Chanc had retired 10 batters in a Row before Duke Sims singled an went to third As Billy Harris slammed a line double to left enter. One out later Vern Fuller brought in both runner with a single to left. Ask me and i la Azcue Minnesota Cincinnati by r. Over the years especially when am s football team was Ata Low ebb people have been known to say Thev were going Only to see the aggie band perform. � y it is still among the biggest drawing cards in the Southwest every saturday in the fall. It is approximately 250 Strong making it the largest military marching band in the land a precision marching unit the aggie band Steps to a Ria military cadence of 120 beats per minute for years the corps of am cadets have been carrying opposing team players off the Field win or lose. Jus bran of a mind a same with Villanova in 1949 when the wildcats had just finished handing the aggie their worst Home opening game defeat in history 35-0. At the end of the game thousands of aggie cadets charged onto the Field. The Wildcat players were flabbergasted and thought they were going to be massacred. Some stood their ground an started swinging thinking that a fight was at hand. 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Allen 18, pitched five no hitters and struck out 588 batters in 313 innings during his career at Senna High , Patterson sign pact for title bout in is Stockholm a a contract for a world heavyweight title fight Between world Champion Jimmy Ellis and former world Champion Floyd Patterson was signed in Stockholm Friday the match will be held at the 52,000-Seatstockholm opon air Rasunda soccer grounds on Copi � the fight is scheduled for 15 rounds and willbe televised via satellite to the United states and Mexico the match is promoted by sports actioninc., of new York and swedish promoters Edwin ahlqvist and per Olof Ahl. Hal Conrad vice president of sports actioninc., said that Ellis and Patterson signed a con tract one week ago with a clause saying that the would fight the match in Sweden provided that the Stockholm negotiations were ahlqvist 70, who now is staging i 104th fight said that Patterson is very popular Sweden and that he exp Ted a sellout on tickets with prices from $80 at ringside to $5 in the stands. The match was originally scheduled for aus but Patterson who a starring in an Amer Iurii television show the wild Vild West no being shot in Hollywood said he would not f a match for his swedish fans if he c9uld no proper time to prepare for the match
