your school is calling..will you answer?

Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by Musaed in Short Articles

i am a big fan of collage football, i follow it intimitly, lots of people ask me “why dont you follow the NFL?” the answer is long and extensive and i wont bore you with it. however, giving the fact that i have to defand my passion between once in awhile, i kept a keen eye on articles that will help me to do so.

i found this very inspiring short story that talks about how a fan created a tradition at Texas A&M university, enjoy

“no school takes the notion of fans and team working in concert quite to the extent that Texas A&M does. At Kyle Field, the student body spends the entire game on its feet, a symbolic 12th Man, ready to lend a hand in case they are called upon.

The 12th Man is not only a cool tradition; it’s a longstanding one with an organic back story. With injuries decimating his team in the 1922 Dixie Classic, Aggies coach Dana X. Bible was fearful of running out of players in a game against Centre College. So he called E. King Gill, who had recently left the football team to concentrate on basketball, from the stands to fortify his squad.

Texas A&M went on to win the game, 22-14. Gill didn’t play a down, but he did answer the call and stood at the ready, and now the entire Aggies student body does likewise at every game at Kyle Field.

You can pretty much judge a crowd’s level of engagement by the amount of time it spends on its collective feet, and no student body is more committed to its team than the Aggies, who render useless a whole lot of the 83,002 seats at Kyle Field in College Station.”

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