Because this is a topic on another thread that has nothing to do with mascots, I'll start the new thread.

How much you want to bet "Higaymen" will have a different story? As many horns as there are in this forum, he is the only one arguing the point from some article he found from God knows where.

Here is what I have found (exactly what everyone thought was the derivative of Bevo):

from "Backyard Brawl, Inside the Blood Fued between Texas and Texas A&M" W.K. Stratton -

"-the first actual longhorn steer mascot was forced, snorting and pawing at the earth, onto the field when UT hosted A&M on Thanksgiving Day. The creature was terrified by the then-record crowd of 15,000 spectators who had showed up to watch the Longhorns win 21-7. The first longhorn was dubbed "the most recalcitrant freshman who was ever bulldozed into higher education." I don't envy the life of this steer. A few months later, some Aggie broke into his stall and branded him with the shutout score A&M had achieved against Texas in 1915: 13-0. (That score was significant because it marked the outcome of the first time the two teams had met in four years, the series having been cancelled after the 1911 contest because it had grown too violent.) This was no small brand, by the way. If you look at the photo of him taken afterward, you see the brand taking up the whole side of the poor beast. UT students addressed the situation by rebranding him in such a way that "13-0" was transformed to read BEVO. At the time, Bevo was the brand name of a nonalcoholic beverage marketed by Budweiser that was popular among the students. (Anheuser-Busch say the name Bevo came about as a derivation on the Czech term for beer, pivo.) But the worst was not over for this steer born under a bad sign. After serving on the field through the 1920 season, he was slaughtered and barbecued and served up as the main course at a dinner for a hundred Texas lettermen, the team coaches, and even some invited guests from A&M. UT gave the branded half of Bevo's hide to A&M, where some reports say it hung in one of the buildings for a number of years. Currently, no one is quite sure where the hide ended up-nor does anyone know just where the UT half of the hide is."

higaymen -

i know you're going to have something to say about this, please post the whole article you have bee referring to. you called me stubborn, but there are countless publications verifying my account (just posted one) and you have 1 that discounts it from some paper no one has ever heard of. not only that, no other horn backs up your story!

I have neither have the time nor the energy to type out the whole article. And I cant find it online because I suck at the internet. You can believe what you want, and I wish the branding story was true, but I'm telling you its a myth.

I'm a UT ex and the story I have heard and is printed in "Here Comes the Texas Longhorns" is the one above by Sportsfreak.

[This message has been edited by Cypressbuilt (edited 11/17/2004 3:00p).]

Yep, that's the way I heard it too. I think H-man is smoking crack again.

H-man, unless you have proof no one will believe you. Post it and let's hear what you have to say.

[This message has been edited by Old_Ag_91 (edited 11/17/2004 3:14p).]

The story is easily verifiable by looking at the yearbooks of the schools from those years.

It came from a song:

Are we not men?

We are BEVO.

B - E - V - O.

HoOk 'em

~(%^D)

HRLIII

His Royal Lameness has spoken!

( ...voice punctuated with a clap of distant thunder... )

Pictures of Tu handlers with BEVO and the 13-0 brand are out there. Tu (Did Dan Rather go to Tu?) can spin it any which way they want or try to doctor it up, but the Aggies named their mascot.

you certainly might think the spin doctor went to tu, but no alas, he is a sam houston bearkat. however, hiwaymen would tell you different.

Kronkite went to Texas

SIP SPIN...PERIOD!!!


http://www.aggies9496.com

Here's an alternative history from a very unbiased source:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2003/06/03/Focus/The-Truth.About.Bevo-493929.shtml

"I have neither have the time nor the energy to type out the whole article."

you have been arguing about Bevo for the past couple of hours (without stop) and you don't have the time to prove yourself?

hmmmm. . . . .

Rather was a SHSU bearkat.

This is just a myth that everyone likes to repeat because its a cool story.

Did the steer get branded 13-0, YES Absolutely.

Did it get rebranded into BEVO? Huh why arent there any pictures of that? Its an urban myth. People from both sides just keep telling it, hell Im a longhorn and I wish it was true, its a better story than the truth

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The Longhorn steer Bevo, the University's mascot. In 1917 pranksters branded Bevo with "13 - 0"-- the score of the Texas A & M victory from the previous year. UT students saved face by altering the numerals to read BEVO. Courtesy, Prints and Photographs Collection, the Center for American History.

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http://www.utexas.edu/tours/nowthen/20/17.html

Here is the story highway is talking about.

http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/pages/proudtrads/bevo.html

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It's one of the best-known stories on the UT campus. During a late night visit to Austin, a group of Texas Aggie pranksters branded the University's first longhorn mascot "13-0," the score of a football game won by Texas A&M. In order to save face, UT students altered the brand to read "Bevo" by changing the "13" to a "B," the "-" to an "E," and inserting a "V" between the dash and the "0." For years, Aggies have proudly touted the stunt as the reason the steer acquired his name. But was the brand really changed? And is that why he's called Bevo?

Sorry. Wrong on both counts.

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Also, when you look at the 13-0 brand in that picture, how the hell would you have fit in the "V", there isnt any room.

Bevo, a Longhorn steer, is the University mascot. Stephen Pickney (LL.B. 1911) spearheaded a movement to provide a live mascot for the University of Texas, collecting $1.00 each from one hundred twenty-four alumni. On Thanksgiving Day, 1916, the frightened Bevo was dragged on to the field and formally presented to the students. This first mascot was branded by Aggies with "13-0" which was the score of the A&M victory the year before, but contrary to Aggie belief, is not the reason for the steer being named Bevo. The December 1916 issue of the Texas Exes Alcalde magazine contained an article by editor Ben Dyer (BA 1910) that described the Thanksgiving game and The University's new mascot, stating: "His name is Bevo. Long may he reign!" Bevo was the name of a "near beer" sold by Anheuser-Busch during prohibition, but Bevo the mascot most likely got his name from a naming fad spurred by Gus Mager's popular comic strips where the character's names were their personality trait with an "o" tagged onto the end (i.e.: Groucho). The mascot, being a beeve, was fittingly named Bevo.


This wasnt the article I read, but it'll do...

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This is just a myth that everyone likes to repeat because its a cool story.

Did the steer get branded 13-0, YES Absolutely.

Did it get rebranded into BEVO? Huh why arent there any pictures of that? Its an urban myth. People from both sides just keep telling it, hell Im a longhorn and I wish it was true, its a better story than the truth

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YOU IDIOTS ARE HILARIOUS! Look at your OWN DAMN WEBSITE!!!

http://www.utexas.edu/pharmacy/general/history/1910history.html


http://www.aggies9496.com

o5, like I said earlier, there was NO second branding...

gotta love revisionist history...

we should have invaded japan by sea and there would have been less loss of life...

civil war was entirely about states' rights...

no conspiracy to kill JFK and JFK was a top 3 president...

BEVO was named years before a&m branded him, with the coincidence that the score branded on the animal is strikingly similar to the name "BEVO."

From the tu website linked by Fran da Man:

Longhorn mascot (1916), branded by Aggies
with the score from a football game in which
Texas A & M defeated UT. Longhorn fans
later changed the brand to read "BEVO".

NO second branding????

Hint - Stop now, before you look even sillier.

houston, I know the notion of fish camp not being completely honest with you (go figure), is tough to swallow...but hang in there and, in the future, try to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts.

Longhorn and fans and aggie fans alike wish the story was true, but it isnt.

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Bevo, a Longhorn steer, is the University mascot. Stephen Pickney (LL.B. 1911) spearheaded a movement to provide a live mascot for the University of Texas, collecting $1.00 each from one hundred twenty-four alumni. On Thanksgiving Day, 1916, the frightened Bevo was dragged on to the field and formally presented to the students. This first mascot was branded by Aggies with "13-0" which was the score of the A&M victory the year before, but contrary to Aggie belief, is not the reason for the steer being named Bevo. The December 1916 issue of the Texas Exes Alcalde magazine contained an article by editor Ben Dyer (BA 1910) that described the Thanksgiving game and The University's new mascot, stating: "His name is Bevo. Long may he reign!" Bevo was the name of a "near beer" sold by Anheuser-Busch during prohibition, but Bevo the mascot most likely got his name from a naming fad spurred by Gus Mager's popular comic strips where the character's names were their personality trait with an "o" tagged onto the end (i.e.: Groucho). The mascot, being a beeve, was fittingly named Bevo.

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quote:

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It's one of the best-known stories on the UT campus. During a late night visit to Austin, a group of Texas Aggie pranksters branded the University's first longhorn mascot "13-0," the score of a football game won by Texas A&M. In order to save face, UT students altered the brand to read "Bevo" by changing the "13" to a "B," the "-" to an "E," and inserting a "V" between the dash and the "0." For years, Aggies have proudly touted the stunt as the reason the steer acquired his name. But was the brand really changed? And is that why he's called Bevo?

Sorry. Wrong on both counts.

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Okay, Who used the Jedi mindtrick on highwaysip so his weak mind can't believe multiple quoted sources?
"saw varsity's horns off"
Well highwaysip, why aren't we sawing off Bevo's horns? Because your mascot wasn't named bevo until branded that cow, lol.

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highwayman...don't you think this is an AWESOME hit by Marcus Buckley:

Sportsfreak's quote does not say that the name BEVO resulted from the 13-0 brand; it says only that the 13-0 brand was transformed into the word BEVO. It is silent as to whether the name may have been used prior to that time.

Ok. Here is some more truth to shed light on this subject. Have you ever thought about why the "Aggie War Hymn" has the chorus of "Saw Varsity's Horns off". There is a reason for this. That was tu's mascots original name. The rest is Aggie history. The following is from infosearch.

Bevo (UT Austin Mascot)

Bevo is also the name of the mascot of The University of Texas at Austin. Originally, a Texas longhorn steer was chosen as the mascot, and given the name of "Varsity." After the University lost a football game against Texas A&M University in 1916, A&M students kidnapped Varsity, and branded it in large characters with the losing score, "13-0." UT students recovered the animal, and with branding irons changed the mark to read "Bevo," which was a near beer popular on campus at the time. The mascot's name has persisted ever since.

well, at least now we finally have something base our argument on.

but it's tu that looks silly! they have an article out from THEIR OWN paper saying it's just a myth, however, THEIR OWN website says it's not a myth!

pretty easy and coincidental that a tu paper dated with today's date would dispute a true story.

to make your argument legit, please refer to a publication not written or published by tu! i have done this for you! my quotes came from a book. it was not sanctioned by either university (published by Three Rivers NY, NY)and if you had read it you know it actually slants more y'all's way - "Backyard Brawl, Inside the Blood Fued Between Texas and Texas A&M" - W.K. Stratton.

Who cares about that ****ing cow? I don't.

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"Like it or not, without the Corps Texas A&M would be Texas Tech" - aggie93

Yes everything that has ever been written in a newspaper or a book is absolutely true. Come on now people.

Books like that are a secondary source. Really the only proof here would be a primary source, so far no one has referenced such information and I wouldnt know where to find one.

prey, i realize that, but at least where i'm coming from is a completely unbiased source.