The Aggieland article has the 12th Man story a little off, as Gill did not enter the game. It also has the Baylor game off by four years. It was 1926, not 1922. So I wouldn't be surprised if the memory of the local merchant would be off as well.
quote:I was gonna post the date discrepancy but I wanted to see who else noticed it.
The Aggieland article has the 12th Man story a little off, as Gill did not enter the game. It also has the Baylor game off by four years. It was 1926, not 1922. So I wouldn't be surprised if the memory of the local merchant would be off as well.
quote:I've got the book, but it's been years since I read it. Will have to take another look. I enjoyed it, was struck by how some things had not changed since the 30s.
I read the book "Aggies y'all catch dat dam ol rat yet?" and know the Baylor story from the book
quote:We turned it around after you walked in '86
If my foggy memory works...I seem to remember that it was tradition from my dads day ( class of 44) that the ring was turned at the ring dance which was held several weeks before grad. Virtually everyone went to the dance and in those days a huge percentage graduated with their class ( adjusted for the war)
By the time I graduated it was still said that the ring dance was the occasion but since a large majority by then neither went to ring dance nor graduated with their class on time it became a graduation day thing. I have no idea about today but in the 70's we turned it around on graduation day.
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Puryear apparently had issues with its water system....when the toilets were flushed anyone taking a shower would be scalded.
Which lead to the fart off during my day, where you would yell someone's name, hoping your buddies will respond with "SHOOT!"ABATTBQ87 said:Quote:
Puryear apparently had issues with its water system....when the toilets were flushed anyone taking a shower would be scalded.
That statement is true for old dorms; If you were going to flush and someone was in the shower it was courtesy to shout: Crapper! and wait for the response "Shoot!" prior to flushing
And here I was thinking all these years you were just being creepy.Quote:
The highest class ranking guy in the shower had the responsibility of checking everyone