In order to celebrate the fact that Texags is now hosting images, I went back through the old yearbooks online looking mostly for pictures of A&M facilities in the past that I hadn't seen on the internet. Here are a few basketball related images.
The first basketball games at A&M would have been played outdoors. Sometime in the teens, a wooden gymnasium was built about where Downs Natatorium was later constructed. You can see it in the background of this photo of a baseball game in 1923. The baseball grandstand served both baseball and track in the early '20s:
Deware Field House was built in 1924.
Unfortunately, due to the limitations of photography at the time, all game action photos that I've seen were take with a flash that only illuminated the action in close proximity and didn't give you a look at the surroundings, and then only a limited view. For that reason, for a number of years after Deware opened, the yearbook staged some photos during the daytime at practice, such as this one in 1938.
G Rollie White Coliseum opened in 1954, and there are a lot of photos of G Rollie floating around the internet, but there were a couple of photos that showed the broader layout that I usually don't see in a search, so I thought I would include those, the first from 1973, and the second from 1975.
The first basketball games at A&M would have been played outdoors. Sometime in the teens, a wooden gymnasium was built about where Downs Natatorium was later constructed. You can see it in the background of this photo of a baseball game in 1923. The baseball grandstand served both baseball and track in the early '20s:
Deware Field House was built in 1924.
Unfortunately, due to the limitations of photography at the time, all game action photos that I've seen were take with a flash that only illuminated the action in close proximity and didn't give you a look at the surroundings, and then only a limited view. For that reason, for a number of years after Deware opened, the yearbook staged some photos during the daytime at practice, such as this one in 1938.
G Rollie White Coliseum opened in 1954, and there are a lot of photos of G Rollie floating around the internet, but there were a couple of photos that showed the broader layout that I usually don't see in a search, so I thought I would include those, the first from 1973, and the second from 1975.