LSU's full name is "Louisiana State University and A&M College"

It is a land grant and sea grant college

So are you saying our rivalry with them was Aggies vs Swamp Aggies all along???

Auburn is a land grant college and was originally named Alabama A&M.

NM State Aggies. Utah State Aggies.
Most State schools were A&M but there is only one "A&M" and that is the Texas Aggies! Hell yeah!

You go to some college towns that were land grant schools and they still have Aggie-remnants like Colorado State in Ft Collins has an Aggie theater I believe and Stillwater as well.

A&M College could have been Texas State University but preferred to keep A&M.

Rongagin71 said:

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A&M College could have been Texas State University but preferred to keep A&M.

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Yep. I also read that during the Sumerlin era that there was a push to drop the "Texas" and officially change it to "The A&M University" and just call it "A&M".

VatoLocoAggie said:

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Rongagin71 said:

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A&M College could have been Texas State University but preferred to keep A&M.

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Yep. I also read that during the Sumerlin era that there was a push to drop the "Texas" and officially change it to "The A&M University" and just call it "A&M".

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Did drake lead that effort?

There were two Morrill Acts. The first was originally vetoed by James Buchanan then successfully passed in 1862 by the remaining states with Lincoln's signature as in effect an inducement to the remaining states for remaining faithful. The earlier one had military tactics added to the supported curriculum prior to passage after the veto.

The latter in 1890 was passed with Reconstruction support and extended the original to segregated universities for blacks and was intended to force the former secessionist states to provide higher education for blacks.

Those all in effect instantly were historic black colleges and universities from the moment of founding and that led to efforts to preserve those institutions by leaders like Lawrence "Sul" Ross and then later to survive the rejection of "separate but equal" segregation by the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.

Florida A&M, Alabama A&M, and our system member university Prairie View A&M all were founded based on the 1890 extension of the original 1862 Morrill Act.

You're welcome...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

Is this thread gonna trigger that psycho sip singularly obsessed with all things A&M?!!

Does anyone know why we didn't get rebranded to Texas State? When was this decided? And by whom?

L8HIT said:

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Does anyone know why we didn't get rebranded to Texas State? When was this decided? And by whom?

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August 1963 is when the name change took effect.

inch05 said:

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You go to some college towns that were land grant schools and they still have Aggie-remnants like Colorado State in Ft Collins has an Aggie theater I believe and Stillwater as well.

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Other examples include the "Aggieville" moniker Kansas State has for their shopping district and some areas in Starkville with the Aggie name.

Texas was actually named Texas A&M-Austin for the first 5 years of its existence. Little known fact.

To reiterate in case some missed the message in all the " USED TO BE" stories

THAT IS STILL THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE SCHOOL:

"LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE"

VatoLocoAggie said:

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Rongagin71 said:

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A&M College could have been Texas State University but preferred to keep A&M.

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Yep. I also read that during the Sumerlin era that there was a push to drop the "Texas" and officially change it to "The A&M University" and just call it "A&M".

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I am announcing my commitment to the university of a&m

UTEP used to be the College of Mines and Metallurgy, hence the Miner as a mascot.

I went to Texas State my freshman year, which was right after they changed its name from Southwest Texas State, and heard while I was there that A&M had opposed their name change to Texas State. Anybody know if there's any truth to that? I figure if A&M really didn't want it to happen it wouldn't have happened.

TexAg2k8 said:

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I went to Texas State my freshman year, which was right after they changed its name from Southwest Texas State, and heard while I was there that A&M had opposed their name change to Texas State. Anybody know if there's any truth to that? I figure if A&M really didn't want it to happen it wouldn't have happened.

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It was only logical that the "bell cow" of the Texas State System be named Texas State University.

inch05 said:

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You go to some college towns that were land grant schools and they still have Aggie-remnants like Colorado State in Ft Collins has an Aggie theater I believe and Stillwater as well.

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Don't forget the giant Aggie "A" on the side of the foothills there.

My MIL's diploma says Colorado A&M. She is 89.

Divining Rod said:

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To reiterate in case some missed the message in all the " USED TO BE" stories

THAT IS STILL THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE SCHOOL:

"LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE"

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The thread is no longer about that "where brains go to die" dump out in Red Stick!

Stone44 said:

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L8HIT said:

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Does anyone know why we didn't get rebranded to Texas State? When was this decided? And by whom?

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I was told Gen. Earl Rudder put an end to that idea. Michigan A&M, Mississippi A&M, Okie A&M, Florida A&M, etc., all changed to State. Rudder said we aren't changing.....we will always be A&M. Tradition ruled.

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Florida State was never Florida A&M.

I stand corrected.

bigjag19 said:

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Florida State was never Florida A&M.

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Florida State was previously Florida State College for Women. They changed the name and included men after WWII. That is why they have no pre war football history.

Stone44 said:

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L8HIT said:

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Does anyone know why we didn't get rebranded to Texas State? When was this decided? And by whom?

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I was told Gen. Earl Rudder put an end to that idea. Michigan A&M, Mississippi A&M, Okie A&M, Florida A&M, etc., all changed to State. Rudder said we aren't changing.....we will always be A&M. Tradition ruled.

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Florida State was never Florida A&M. Two separate institutions. Florida A&M is an HBCU.

Florida State was originally the Florida Military and Collegiate Institute, and cadets from the school actually defeated Union forces at the Battle of Natural Bridge. This made Tallahassee the only capital east of the Mississippi to not fall to the Union during the Civil War.

The college eventually became West Florida Seminary, and was then reorganized in 1905 into the Florida State College for Women. I worked with a lady at my first teaching job who was a graduate of FSCW, and she was still pissed about the school becoming co-ed. Like a reverse of an old Ag from the early '60s.

**Edit** Looks like I took too long writing my mini-dissertation here.