BigJim49,
Is that your class year? I have an Aggieland from '49. I may just have to look up all the Jameses and Jims tonight.

It's McGuire '49 Austin might be Mickey ( nickname then) in 49 YB - C flightAF

Feel dirty just reading a thread with that school mentioned. Nasty..

Story in the 50s is true. Never heard about the one in the 70s.

Ah Mainz!!!

I saw Holden MD and almost had a heart attack!

That guy was awesome!

Tell him, "From my side, that **** never happened."

Was in grad school with a man who was from the classes in the 50's and he told the story of the torn up car, said he was in the group but not I think in the car. According to him bear did not die but car was in shreds.



Bevo was stole and paraded on the quad while I was down there. No harm to him.


Dad was in the Corps during the time we did not play Baylor. How he hated that school. Yes there was a brawl, but someone from baylor used more that fists. I was told a metal chair? and the cadet died. Corps was threatening to go destroy Waco but stopped.

No games for a period of time. No Corps trip for even longer.

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No, Squadron 11 it was like this:

A teasip got lose during the halftime of a BU A&M game and conducted the Aggie Band with a hammer.

Some Aggies stole the bear, and after it tore up their back seat, they replaced it with a chair.

When the sips stole the bear, they made love to it, ended up marrying it, and had lots of little furry sips that are now cheerleaders in Austin.

I know this is all true. I heard it from my brother, who heard it from a guy at a filling station in Harlingen, who picked up the information from a crapper wall on the Tceh campus. Perfectly reliable.

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I find this highly suspect. They replaced the bear with a chair?

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Nah man, they replaced the backseat with the chair

Pretty sure they just drove to the chicken ranch and banged some Baylor girls just trying to pay for their overpriced degree.

I am a little surprised that the great year of 1963 has not been discussed much. In 1963 ALL of the SWC mascots were stolen by the Ags. I am not sure about the bear being killed but I remember that one of the mascots was killed (I thought it was the Horned Frog). I remember the Silver Spurs truck and trailer that hauled Bevo around (escorted by the Texas Rangers) sitting in front of Loupot's. Loupot was standing in front of his store handing out stickers that Ags were sticking all over the trailer!

It seems like I recall talk of the Tech pony being artificially inseminated.

I also remember Loupot releasing two small pigs in Sbisa the Wednesday before we played Arkansas. It cause the biggest food fight I have ever seen.

Those were the days!

BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:

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It's McGuire '49 Austin might be Mickey ( nickname then) in 49 YB - C flightAF

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So... my father-in-law just told me this story and I have questions. .... Is there any way I could email you about this?

Damn!!! 7 year bump. Impressive.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I had never seen this thread before or I would have posted. I've told this story in other threads.

My father was part of stealing one of the bear cubs in about 1950 or '51. He said they had the cub (not a full size bear, but not real small either) in the car. The bear went haywire and started tearing up the inside of the car. Said they wound up chaining or tying it to an underpass and called somebody (school or police) to tell them where it was.

He said "I think we might have gotten away with it, but we then had the bright idea to go around town using black shoe polish to paint 'Beat the hell out of Baylor' on the big white sidewall tires."

At some point, a group of Baylor students caught them, and he said that they were lucky that the police showed up about the same time because they were seriously outnumbered.

Got back to campus and he was given the option of getting kicked out of school and not being able to re-enroll, or resigning and he would be eligible to come back after a year.

He resigned, went into the army and eventually graduated in 1961. I was born in '56 and we lived in the old married student's housing until he graduated. I still have some memories of being around campus from when I was young.

https://wacohistory.org/items/show/190

Really happened. Truth is the CTs were blasted and decided to let the bear drive.

The bear drove great until another motorist cut him off. The bear went road rage crazy.

FrontPorchAg said:

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The only story I remember hearing was the one where the old ags returned the mascot by tying it to a tree on the bu campus but the bear hung itself in an effort to get free. Don't know if that one was true either.

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crapper rumor!

CaddoAggie96 said:

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Heard it. Don't know if true. Heard it from a guy that played for Baylor in 1955-56 but got kicked off the team for fighting in a bar and wound up at Tennessee...and actually played against us in the Gator Bowl...1957.

But for all I know he heard it from so-and-so....who heard it from so-and so.....but he is a really great guy and I would not peg him as being a liar.

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another crapper rumor!

PA24 said:

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Ask him about the time they killed a cadet by mauling him after a game. Killed him dead.

Baylor sucks, watch your back.

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They do have a bit of a murder and rape history. That's fair to say, and documented.

Never trust a Baylor student or grad. They are a sneaky bunch. They will sell you out and leave you to rot. Vile folk.

gigemhilo said:

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BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:

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It's McGuire '49 Austin might be Mickey ( nickname then) in 49 YB - C flightAF

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So... my father-in-law just told me this story and I have questions. .... Is there any way I could email you about this?

jimngay@sbcglobal.net

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Duckhook said:

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I had never seen this thread before or I would have posted. I've told this story in other threads.

My father was part of stealing one of the bear cubs in about 1950 or '51. He said they had the cub (not a full size bear, but not real small either) in the car. The bear went haywire and started tearing up the inside of the car. Said they wound up chaining or tying it to an underpass and called somebody (school or police) to tell them where it was.

He said "I think we might have gotten away with it, but we then had the bright idea to go around town using black shoe polish to paint 'Beat the hell out of Baylor' on the big white sidewall tires."

At some point, a group of Baylor students caught them, and he said that they were lucky that the police showed up about the same time because they were seriously outnumbered.

Got back to campus and he was given the option of getting kicked out of school and not being able to re-enroll, or resigning and he would be eligible to come back after a year.

He resigned, went into the army and eventually graduated in 1961. I was born in '56 and we lived in the old married student's housing until he graduated. I still have some memories of being around campus from when I was young.

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Is your father in law still living? May I email you about this?

It was my father, who passed in 2017.

You can still email me if you want. Username@gmail.

I was in the corps in the early 80s. We never marched there.

It was always tu and SMU one year and Rice and TCU the next

oldvalleyrat said:

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I am a little surprised that the great year of 1963 has not been discussed much. In 1963 ALL of the SWC mascots were stolen by the Ags.

Those were the days!

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the class of '63 was referenced at my FOW. We were told back in the day stealing mascots was good bull but don't even think about. You would be thrown out of school , and mascot stealing was a felony

Some Ags back in the day stole the Stanford Tree mascot, and planted a cutting of it on campus before it was returned. You might know that tree today as, 'The Century Tree'.