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Why so many other Aggie teams?

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Watching jville state game on espn and noticed they are the Aggies. Wondering why so many other college football teams use the name Aggies. There are at least 4. Weren't we able to trademark the name? I don't see any other college teams called longhorns or buckeyes.
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I believe it's North Carolina A&T who are named the Aggies in that match.

It was a moniker for Ag schools. No idea on the trademark but it doesn't surprise me that traditional Ag schools adopted Aggies in their early years.
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New Mexico State and I believe a calfornis school is named the aggies.
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Used to be a lot more of them. Many schools changed their names and mascots over the years.

Interesting: There are currently two colleges in Oklahoma that use the "Aggies" nickname, and neither of them is Oklahoma State, which used to be the Oklahoma A&M Aggies.
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osu as well I think before they changed to cowboys
one of the Utah schools originally as well I believe - probably a couple of dozen years ago
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Why no other longhorns
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99% of people think of only one set of Aggies whenever it's spoken, and so few schools use it now, I never really thought about it.

I'm honestly surprised Aggies even crosses your mind in this thought. You want to talk about overused mascot names? We can start with Tigers. We have THREE sets of tigers in the SEC alone. If you want to expand outside of college and include high school, that has to be the most common mascot name in existence.



This also reminds me that another in our division were once called the Aggies as well. Mississippi state was originally Mississippi A&M and were called the Aggies. Only thing they've kept are the colors.
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Utah state
New Mexico State
NC A&T
Cal Davis
Nino Brown
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Sucks to be LSU and Clemson
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BmtAg96 said:

Why no other longhorns
Because nobody wants to be like them
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I was at Ft. Sill for Army ROTC Field Training in 1970. Our Tac Officer asked how many Aggies were in the Company. We had several, but one guy piped up that he was a New Mexico Aggie. Our TO responded, "there is only one Aggie!"
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Answer to BMTAG96. No one wants any part of that name. See Schulenberg Shorthorns
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BmtAg96 said:

Why no other longhorns


There's one too many that's why
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Most, if not all states have a University of Whatever or a Whatever University that is publicly funded. Many also had land grant, agriculture focused, ROTC providing publicly funded schools, many of which were named Whatever A&M University or Whatever State University. Many of these schools called their teams Aggies - See Texas A&M, New Mexico State University, etc.
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Well, OP... if you must know, it's because you touch yourself at night.
SchizoAg
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...which is why we are the "Texas Aggies": to distinguish us from "New Mexico Aggies", "Cal Aggies", etc.
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Bunk Moreland
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Because Aggies is not centric to Texas like Longhorns are or buckeyes are to Ohio.
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IVY3AG said:

Answer to BMTAG96. No one wants any part of that name. See Schulenberg Shorthorns


Every time I see or hear Schulenberg Shorthorns I think of Scotty Simspon, starting Short Stop in '76.....sick swing
TexAgTrojan
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Kansas state is in Aggieville which is part of Manhattan, as well, they used to be the Aggies.
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Colorado A&M Aggies say hello.
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A good number of the Morrill land grant schools were known as the "Aggies" in their state until the 30's, especially those schools west of the Mississippi.

Another one is Colorado State has a big "A" on the side of the mountain overlooking their old stadium as they were once known as the Aggies. I think Washington State and Oregon State were also known as the Aggies in their state.

As to trademarks, A&M has the trademark at the state level but can't trademark "Aggies" by itself at the federal level as it is used by a number of other schools - particularly since a few may have been using it longer than we have.

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Hence the validity of "Texas Aggies". As there used to be Oklahoma Aggies, UTAH Aggies, etc...
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Fun fact...Clemson use to be Clemson A&M.
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Oklahoma State was once the Oklahoma Aggies.
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Bourbon legend is that way back when if there had been more votes from the M's than the A's
we would have been the Texas Engies.
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Check out a LSU degree. It is still Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College!!
Gig'em
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Aggie64 said:

Check out a LSU degree. It is still Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College!!
Gig'em
No thanks.
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Dartmouth was once a land grant school.
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Schools that are Aggies
Texas A&M, UC Davis, NM State, Utah State.

Schools that used to be Aggies
UConn, Colorado State, Mississippi State, Michigan State, UMass, Oklahoma State.
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Cameron University, Panhandle State, and Delaware Valley also use "Aggies" as their nickname.
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Yeah. Jacksonville State is the Gamecocks.
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aggie813 said:

Fun fact...Clemson use to be Clemson A&M.


USC fans still call them aggies.
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Publius has got it

Even Michigan State used to be the Michigan A&M Aggies (and their yearbook was called "The Wolverind")

"Aggie" used to be a mild pejorative towards agricultural workers, just like "techie" or "geek" is today towards, well, geeks. So "Texas Aggies" was as much to distinguish us from, say, Oklahoma or Michigan Aggies, as it was to distinguish us from the generic lot of aggies. And aggie jokes are not originally about student from our school; they were about aggies in general. These days jokes about agricultural workers are as anachronistic as jokes about "Pollocks." We Texas Aggies are the last best and baddest group of Aggies standing, so we inherit the status of being the butt of "Aggie Jokes." It's a good thing.

You can look at what the government of India did with its IIT system for an analogy to what the US government did right after the Civil War with the land grant schools. And, it's not too hard to imagine that one of the IIT schools might, cheekily, call themselves "The Bangalore Nerds" or something like that. Well, that's why there are so many Aggie schools.

Another note is that there was as second land grant act, passed in 1895 I think, which set up a sort of "separate but definitely not equal" system of agriculture-based schools to educate the black population (viz. former slaves). In many ways this initiative was modeled on the original land grant act, so the mascot of Aggies was likewise widely adopted (e.g. NC A&T, Alabama A&M).

Now, why we are one of a very small number of remaining land grant schools (from either land grant act) holding on to "Aggies" is a different question -- that question is more along the lines of "why so few other Aggies?" I don't know the answer to that, but I can say that it's at least coherent with Texas A&M's established conservative character.
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BmtAg96 said:

Why no other longhorns
What other mascots are the castrated version of another mascot?
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farwellrob said:

Schools that are Aggies
Texas A&M, UC Davis, NM State, Utah State.

Schools that used to be Aggies
UConn, Colorado State, Mississippi State, Michigan State, UMass, Oklahoma State.


You forgot a few including Kansas state
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