Anyone know what they represent?
Post Reply
1 of 1
Flags around Kyle field
2,971 Views |
17 Replies |
Last: 2 yr ago by ABATTBQ87
v
I was told they represent the ww1 fallen Aggie veterans is that correct?
Is this where I hate New Army, non-regs, or both?
Didn't go to school at A&M.
Just interested in the History, seems like everything has a purpose.
Just interested in the History, seems like everything has a purpose.
Yes. Many things are deeply rooted in tradition, such as 55 flags over Kyle Field repeating the 55 Aggies killed in WWI. (There's some debate though on the actual number). The Memorial Student Center and such. There's also an inside joke where if we Aggies do anything more than twice it's a new tradition. Also some other cool/unique traditions are Silver Taps where the first Tuesday of each month in which a current A&M student passed away, the student body gathers at 10pm in front of the academic building and team of buglers plays a version to Taps three times (facing north, west, and south) but not east as the sun will never rise again for that Aggie. Aggie Muster is very unique and special. Sort of a mix between a traditional reunion type weekend mixed with a memorials service to for Aggies who have passed away the previous year.
the beginning of Campusology (Cush) questions 1946:
How long do you have? Ol' Army has had a long lifetime. But your statement is very true...Pulloutgregg!!! said:
Didn't go to school at A&M.
Just interested in the History, seems like everything has a purpose.
Notice there is never an A&M Homecoming.... Every home game is a homecoming game. It was a tradition up until sometime after the Class of '86 died (all classes "die" after four years of attending school- tradition) that dates dressed up and wore corsages to football games. They wore dresses instead of lingerie as they do now....
Yell Practice (tradition) - often poorly imitated but never duplicated. No other school gets 35-40,000 people together to practice yells (tradition), listen to grode stories ( tradition) and practice kissing their date (tradition) at Midnight on game days....
There are no ex-Aggies - only Former Students (tradition) as you never stop being an Aggie. (except Kyler Murray).
You never walk on the grass at the Memorial Student Center (tradition).
There are also a lot of traditions that are based upon the time when A&M was all male and all Corps of Cadets. These traditions are based mainly on the Quad (where the Corps lives) and are not widely known throughout the general student population (or "Non-Reg" for Non-Regulation - Also tradition) .
Within the he Corps there are "CTs" for Corps Turds and "BQs" for Band Queers. No... you cannot be both... its genetically impossible. We are like brothers.... Only we can fight each other but an outsider will have to fight us both.
As I said previously.... It seriously impossible to list all the traditions... Old and new.
Yell Practice (tradition) - often poorly imitated but never duplicated. No other school gets 35-40,000 people together to practice yells (tradition), listen to grode stories ( tradition) and practice kissing their date (tradition) at Midnight on game days....
There are no ex-Aggies - only Former Students (tradition) as you never stop being an Aggie. (except Kyler Murray).
You never walk on the grass at the Memorial Student Center (tradition).
There are also a lot of traditions that are based upon the time when A&M was all male and all Corps of Cadets. These traditions are based mainly on the Quad (where the Corps lives) and are not widely known throughout the general student population (or "Non-Reg" for Non-Regulation - Also tradition) .
Within the he Corps there are "CTs" for Corps Turds and "BQs" for Band Queers. No... you cannot be both... its genetically impossible. We are like brothers.... Only we can fight each other but an outsider will have to fight us both.
As I said previously.... It seriously impossible to list all the traditions... Old and new.
this was still done, at least in the FTAB until 1990. I think woman in the Corps and FTAB eroded that because some of the male dates didn't want to wear ties to games.Quote:
Notice there is never an A&M Homecoming.... Every home game is a homecoming game. It was a tradition up until sometime after the Class of '86 died (all classes "die" after four years of attending school- tradition) that dates dressed up and wore corsages to football games. They wore dresses instead of lingerie as they do now....
Or it could have changed once the Corps started wearing Class B unies to the games and not summer Class A uniform
Contrary to The Batt's recitation of campos, when Kyle Field was constructed, the number of flags had no significance. We know the number of recognized WWI dead has increased (55 in 1990). No change in flag count. This myth has been checked and determined to be erroneous. Its akin to the "Kyle Field is a memorial" myth.
93Spur said:
Contrary to The Batt's recitation of campos, when Kyle Field was constructed, the number of flags had no significance. We know the number of recognized WWI dead has increased (55 in 1990). No change in flag count. This myth has been checked and determined to be erroneous. Its akin to the "Kyle Field is a memorial" myth.
Take it up with the class of 1948, since they are the ones that created the campusology question and answer
The Corps of Cadets is the heart and soul of Texas A&M and all meaningful traditions were born in the Corps incubator. Agree or disagree, don't care, but in MHO our beloved school ain't what it used to be.CanyonAg77 said:
Is this where I hate New Army, non-regs, or both?
When was this checked and where is this information?93Spur said:
Contrary to The Batt's recitation of campos, when Kyle Field was constructed, the number of flags had no significance. We know the number of recognized WWI dead has increased (55 in 1990). No change in flag count. This myth has been checked and determined to be erroneous. Its akin to the "Kyle Field is a memorial" myth.
I was at the Florida game a couple weeks ago and it looked to me like the uniform is:Rabid Cougar said:
dates dressed up and wore corsages to football games. They wore dresses instead of lingerie as they do now....
- Cowboy Boots with a 12th Man towel tucked in to the strap for the boot pulls.
- Daisy Dukes
- A&M Jersey
Non-Reg Males - Overalls, and carrying a 1 gallon water bottle.
https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/1517439
Ernest Langford, who designed the upper portions of the stadium, denied that the flags were memorials. In a Nov. 4, 1969 letter to retired sports information director H.B. McElroy '38, Langford wrote, "I have not counted the 'pilasters' whose number Mr. McElroy gives as 52. If there are 52, the number is a mere coincidence as the idea of a 'memorial stadium' never entered our minds at the time of design."
(Yes, I was perturbed to learn the campo was erroneous)
Somebody said it once, it got repeated, then history got "re-remembered."
(We Aggies do this a lot.
12th Man - term predated E. King Gill, standing ready to go in as the 12th man was adopted in light of Gill.
Gig Em - not invented by Pinky Downs before the 1930 TCU game. He created the hand signal and should be well credited for it - it was the first in the SWC. Gig Em was in use by early 1920s)
There are more.)
Ernest Langford, who designed the upper portions of the stadium, denied that the flags were memorials. In a Nov. 4, 1969 letter to retired sports information director H.B. McElroy '38, Langford wrote, "I have not counted the 'pilasters' whose number Mr. McElroy gives as 52. If there are 52, the number is a mere coincidence as the idea of a 'memorial stadium' never entered our minds at the time of design."
(Yes, I was perturbed to learn the campo was erroneous)
Somebody said it once, it got repeated, then history got "re-remembered."
(We Aggies do this a lot.
12th Man - term predated E. King Gill, standing ready to go in as the 12th man was adopted in light of Gill.
Gig Em - not invented by Pinky Downs before the 1930 TCU game. He created the hand signal and should be well credited for it - it was the first in the SWC. Gig Em was in use by early 1920s)
There are more.)
It may have predated Gill, but the Cadets voted in 1922-23 to be known as the Twelfth Man93Spur said:
12th Man - term predated E. King Gill, standing ready to go in as the 12th man was adopted in light of Gill.
The Battalion.October 09, 1923
