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The 1926 football game coincided with Baylor's homecoming. During halftime, Baylor homecoming floats paraded around the field. When a float, actually a car pulling a flatbed trailer with two homecoming queen candidates, neared the section where the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets sat, a cadet raced towards the car to try to steer it away from the space in front of the corps. The motion caused the women to fall off the truck, inciting a large riot. Students used metal folding chairs and planks of wood that had been used as yard markers for weapons. Texas A&M student Lt. Charles Sessums was hit over the head with a chair in the melee, and, although he initially appeared to recover, he died following the game.

Adding insult to the Aggies, the Baylor Lariat interpreted a line of the senior statement saying that no "A. and M. man has ever willingly or knowingly harmed a woman" as "no cadet had ever willingly laid hands on a woman."

On December 8, 1926, the two school presidents agreed to temporarily suspend athletic relations between the schools. The schools would not compete against each other in any athletic event for the next four years. Baylor and Texas A&M would not meet in football again until 1931, where Texas A&M won 33-7 in College Station.

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