On Jan. 2, 1922, the heavily outgunned Aggies were facing the top-ranked Centre College Praying Colonels on the gridiron in the Dixie Classic in Dallas. An Aggie by the name of E. King Gill, a squad player for Texas A&M’s football team, was up in the press box helping reporters identify players on the field below — and what was happening on the field wasn’t pretty.
The Aggies found themselves plagued by injuries, with their reserves seemingly dwindling with every play. As Texas A&M Coach Dana X. Bible looked across his rapidly emptying bench, he suddenly remembered Gill’s presence in the stands. Bible waved Gill down to the sideline and told him to suit up. Gill ran under the bleachers and put on the uniform of injured running back Heine Weir, who had been knocked out of the game in the first quarter.
鳃回到了场边，在那里，他随时准备为比赛的整体发挥。上次运行的游戏的情况下，农学生发现，他们已经被拉断在学院橄榄球历史上最大的冷门之一，赢得比赛22-14。
和鳃仍然站立，离开球队的板凳上唯一的球员。
Gill’s willingness to serve his team in 1922 has passed down from generation to generation of Aggies for more than nine decades, as Texas A&M’s student section stands together during entire football and basketball games, a symbol of the 第12人 on the team.
The power of the 12th Man is echoed in the unity, the loyalty, and the willingness of Aggies to serve when called to do so. And it is the reason that Texas A&M has earned a name that embraces Gill’s simple gesture of service: 主页 of the 第12人.
要了解更多的第12人，访问丰富的历史 //12thman.tamu.edu/.
