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Manziel breaks media silence in teleconference

Speaking exclusively through his statistics for the entirety of a magical 10-2 season and Heisman Trophy warpath, media and fans alike got a chance to speak to the mysterious phenom Johnny Man-ziel on Monday afternoon.

Manziel put up video game numbers through the 2012 foot-ball season. His 4,600 yards and 43 touchdowns surpassed Cam New-ton’s SEC record for total yards in a season and Newton’s touchdown total from his own Heisman-winning year.

Manziel said winning the Heisman would be a surreal experience.

“It’s something that you dream about as a kid,” Manziel said. “When you’re sitting there play-ing all of these NCAA games as a kid and you create a player and you win the Heisman as a fresh-man because you just put up crazy numbers, it’s something that you can always sit back and dream

about. It’s the biggest, most pres-tigious award in college football, so it would definitely be a dream come true.”

As for “Johnny Football,” the

nickname caught fire at A&M and

is now renowned nationally upon

Manziel’s surge to the summit of

the college football world.

“It was something that started

to be thrown around a little bit

when I first got here to Texas

A&M,” Manziel said. “My feel-

ings on it — I think it’s something

that’s funny. I think it’s something

that a lot of people here in Ag-

gieland enjoy that I find kind of

funny. I think it fits.”

Even so, Manziel said he

still pictures himself as a foot-

ball player with humble

small-town beginnings.

“I don’t see myself as ‘Johnny

Football,’” Manziel said. “I still

see myself as Jonathan Manziel,

a small-town guy from Kerrville

who’s extremely fortunate and ex-

tremely blessed to be able to play

football here at A&M.”

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johnny football

Tradition lives through honorary Corps member

Aaron Cranford — THE BATTALION

Fighting the battle of sleeping through formation versus finding the will to come to life at 5:30 a.m. every day is a battle for some Corps of Cadets members. Even if they had a choice to begin with, waking up before the crack of dawn wins every time.

Although cadets are required to be at for-mation in the morning alongside their outfits,

one man voluntarily stands in the background at every Corps formation, morning and night.

“When he first started coming, they thought he had a son or brother in the Corps or something, but he didn’t,” said Eric Gil, se-nior industrial distribution major and sergeant major of the Corps.

Albert Bradley, often referred to as “Ol’ Army Al,” has been attending the Corps for-mations since 1974 — the year he became a

permanent resident of College Station.He was awarded for his honorary service

this past Saturday before the Missouri game. Bradley was presented with the Saber Award, which consisted of a shadow box with med-als, a campaign cover band and tags stamped with his name. He also received a framed and mounted saber with a sheath.

Typically, when a student hears about someone so dedicated to a particular section

of A&M culture, they assume the person is an Aggie. Uncommonly enough, Bradley never attended the University.

“My early morning routine began when I was a senior in high school,” Bradley said. “They told me I could have an agriculture job for a year and then graduate. So I went to work on an Amish farm in Philadelphia,

Albert Bradley sits on a bench in the Quad after receiving the Saber Award at morning formation. Known to the Corps of Cadets as “Ol’ Army Al,” Bradley holds the highest attendance record for the twice daily Corps formation. He has attended formation every day — health permitting — since 1974.

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Aggies take championship hopes to Austin in tourney

The Texas A&M volleyball team is on its way to the NCAA Tournament begin-ning Thursday as the Aggies will open their playoff push against the wolf pack from North Carolina State.

The Aggies enter the tournament with a full head of steam as the accolades from the regular season are showing.

A&M finished the season with a 24-5 record (16-4), claiming the SEC West division crown and finishing behind No. 15 Florida in the SEC. Under the direc-

tion of head coach Laurie Corbelli, the Aggies finished strong with a nine-game win streak.

This is the 16th time the Aggies will appear in the tournament in 20 years under Corbelli.

“It’s certainly a huge, huge benefit for us to be in great conferences — the Big 12 over the past 15 years and then this year in the SEC — to get to compete against some of the best,” Corbelli said. “It pre-pares us really well for the tournament and it allows us to get the kind of seeding and

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The Texas A&M volleyball team faces off against Florida on Oct. 21. The Aggies finished behind Florida in the SEC and are headed to the NCAA tournament in Austin.

Ol’ Army Spirit

Cadets inducted in honor society for academic excellence

Buildings and organizations at Texas A&M are tributes to former students who achieved great things, both during their time as students and in their careers.

More than 100 cadets were recognized Monday night in Rudder Tower for their aca-demic achievements as they were inducted into the O.R. Simpson Corps Honor Society — the Corps’ academic elite.

“What’s our number one priority in the Corps of Cadets? Academics,” said Brig. Gen. Joe E. Ramirez, Class of 1979 and comman-dant of the Corps of Cadets. “This [organiza-tion] ought to be the forefront of what we talk about and what we do in our Corps.”

Ramirez, who had the privilege of meeting the namesake of the organization in the late 1970s, said Simpson would be proud of the aca-demic excellence and service the organization strives for.

“He would be a very proud man today look-ing out at the audience, at all these great young cadets and what you stand for, as part of an or-ganization that bears his name,” Ramirez said.

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Chase Krumholz — THE BATTALION

Johnny Manziel, sophomore business administration major and starting quarterback, kneels during an injury timeout Saturday at Kyle Field. Manziel spoke to media Monday in a press teleconference.

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gies for the All-SEC Team awards, including senior op-posite Alisia Kastmo and se-nior middle blocker Lindsey Miller for first-team selection. Junior setter Allie Sawatzky was named to the All-SEC Second Team.

For Kastmo and Miller, this marks the second year in a row that both players made an all-selection team. Last year, both players were named on the All-Big 12 First Team.

Kastmo ranks in the top 10 in the SEC in kills, aces and points while starting ev-ery match and posting dou-ble-digit digs in 22 of the 29 matches.

Miller was named the SEC offensive player of the week

as she posted 17 kills at Ten-nessee and a career-high 20 kills at Ole Miss. Starting in each of the 121 games dur-ing her A&M career, Miller is the 16th to accumulate 1,000 career kills.

Sawatzky has been the set-ter all season for the Aggies, who rank in the top 15 in of-fense — averaging 10.34 as-sists per set. Sawatzky posted a career-high 66 assists in A&M’s crucial road victory against preseason SEC favor-ite Tennessee in Knoxville on Nov. 21.

The Aggies will now move on to face North Carolina State for the first time in Coach Corbelli’s tenure.

“They are going to be very, very tough,” Corbelli said. “I know the coaching staff and I have seen their re-sults. However, I don’t know a lot about their talent, the individual athletes. I’m hop-

ing that the SEC has prepared

us well for whatever we do

happen to see. I don’t know

a lot about them, but we will

certainly know a lot more in

24 hours.”

A&M will be playing in

Austin, Texas, for the first

and second round beginning

Thursday at Gregory Gym.

The winner of the A&M-

North Carolina State match

will go on to face the winner

of the No. 3 Texas-Colgate

match Friday.

“We’ll have a lot of Aggies

there in our contingency, and

a lot of families will be able to

be there,” Corbelli said. “It’s

tournament time, so crazy

things can happen and you

just have to go out and give

it your best.”

The Aggies will face off

against North Carolina State

Thursday at 4 p.m. Winners

of the two matches will play

Friday at 7 p.m.

VolleyballContinued from page 1

The Corps’ growing focus on academics has been re-flected by the organization’s growth, which has doubled in inductees since last fall, said Zach Habersang, se-nior computer engineering major and president of the honor society.

“Last fall we only in-ducted about 50 members,” Habersang said. “Today we inducted more than 100, so we’ve doubled. We’re getting better at grades, we’re get-

ting more members and it’s going great.”

The blue and white cords worn on the left shoulder dis-tinguish members of the O.R. Simpson Honor Society. To be accepted into the orga-nization, cadets must meet certain GPR requirements. Seniors must attain a 3.20 for 84 hours, juniors must attain a 3.30 for 54 hours and sopho-mores must attain a 3.40 for 25 hours.

“We recognize these cadets as incentive for them to go out and make those grades,” Habersang said. “They go out and try to make grades

and they can be seen wear-ing these cords. They put on this cord and they realize they earned this cord; they earned their ribbon.”

Ramirez said the organi-zation is a reflection of the Corps’ mission to train men and women to be leaders.

“It makes me proud to know that these are our coun-try’s future leaders,” Ramirez said. “I like to think we’ve done a good job of training well and educating well be-fore you get out there to lead our state and our nation into the future. We need leaders today like never before.”

CorpsContinued from page 1

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where I had to get up at 5 a.m. and I milked

cows twice a day, every day.”

Bradley’s adventures continued after grad-

uation. After making only a dollar a day at

the farm with the addition of room and

board, Bradley joined the National Guard,

but was only able to serve for one year due

to downsizing.

Soon after, he took a job at a large horse

ranch. He said that the ranch had 50 brood

mares and his job was breeding and deliver-

ing foals. Farm life gave Bradley the skills he

would later need to obtain two different me-

chanic jobs at engineering companies.

His travels did not stop there.

In 1963, Bradley lunged into his first at-

tempt to affiliate with A&M by looking for a

job at the University. After not receiving one,

he remained in the area and found Grace Bible

Church instead.

“I met a missionary who told me to get in-

volved,” Bradley said. “It was a challenge. I

ended up going to the Middle East to help

drive trucks for literature distribution.”

Bradley said after working in the Middle

East for 11 years and traveling to places from

London to Iran, he returned to College Sta-

tion in 1974.

“He’s a reminder that your dedication

doesn’t stop here; it continues for years to

come,” said Crystal Perez, junior biology ma-

jor and operations sergeant for the Corps. “He

is always here to encourage you if you have

any problems.”

Bradley has dedicated a large part of his

life to the Corps by continuing his missionary

work at A&M. He has transitioned his mis-

sionary work toward members of the Corps,

befriending them and discussing life issues.

“We talk mostly about what’s happening

— mainly girlfriends,” Bradley said. “I don’t

push the gospel. If they want to talk, they will

come to me.”

Because he was never married due to what

he called his “traveling ways,” Aggies became

family to him — so much that he had extra

rooms added to a house in the community and

took in fifth-year students he had befriended.

With a smile spread across his face, Bradley

said he had even helped a couple of Corps

members meet their wives and one couple

named their first child after him.

“He’s kind of a tradition here,” Perez said.

Bradley is a common figure on standby in

the Quad, which has enabled him to inter-

act with cadets on a daily basis. He said he

couldn’t begin to count how many students

he knows on a personal level.

“He’s always motivating and saying ‘hi,’”

said Fernando Aguilera, senior aerospace en-

gineering major and operations and training

officer for the Corps. “He never had the op-

portunity to come here and be in the Corps, so

I thought we needed to give him something to

let him know how much we appreciate him.”

With the help of cadets, the presentation

was put together and planned out.

“I didn’t know I was getting it,” Bradley

said. “They just told me to be here around

2:30. When they brought me to the can-

non [to present the award] I couldn’t talk. I

just cried.”

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The Corps of Cadets presented Albert Bradley with a saber before the football game on Saturday. Although “Ol’ Army Al” was never a member of the Corps, the sword represents his honorary Corps membership.

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