Teddy Roosevelt was re-elected President of the United States on November 8, 1904. A week later, Denison finally got its first victory ever against the Sherman Bearcats on the football field. The Yellow Jackets held on for an 11-5 win, and the Dallas Morning News wrote about the game. The official working the game was
The 1927 TCU Horned Frogs played 5 teams in the month of October. Texas @ DKR Memorial in Austin. Texas Tech in Fort Worth. Austin College in Fort Worth. Texas A&M in Fort Worth. Baylor @ The Cotton Palace in Waco. TCU didn’t lose a single one. Against AC, the Horned Frogs jumped out to
The Great Depression took a toll on both Austin College & Trinity University. AC was barely able to scrape by thanks to some huge sacrifices and very creative financing. Trinity, located in struggling Waxahachie, fared much worse. To combat the crisis, the two Presbyterian Synods of Texas which governed Austin College & Trinity began to
Nobody could stop Jerry Bishop and Dick Hill on a clear November day back in 1963. The Kangaroos met East Central Oklahoma at Louis Calder Stadium for the last game of the season. The All-American QB Bishop and his WR Hill went to the air early and often all game long. No matter the route,
Texas baseball was born in Houston, but it was raised in Sherman. The first recorded baseball game in the state of Texas took place April 21, 1867. On the 31st anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, a local Houston club defeated a visiting Galveston team on the actual battlefield just east of Houston. Former
According to the Houston Post, the Roos “put up a plucky fight” in their football contest against TCU in late October 1909. But the Horned Frogs eventually prevailed by a score of 18-3. Austin College boarded the train to head back to Sherman. Soon, Waco was disappearing in the distance. Wait, what? Waco? Yes, Waco.
Hey, check out that photo! The photo comes from a Texas A&M yearbook. It’s found on the first of many pages dedicated to Aggie football that season. It has a caption: Initial Kick-Off. What does “Initial” refer to? The beginning of a particular game? Maybe. Or perhaps it refers to the initial kickoff of the
It’s a dramatic scene in a great football movie. In “Remember The Titans”, Coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) leads his recently integrated T.C. Williams High School football team out of the Gettysburg College dorms, through the woods, and into a Gettysburg graveyard. There, he urges his diverse team to come together and avoid the fate
Spirits were high as the Hendrix Warriors traveled north to Fayetteville in October 1920. Their goal was a daunting one: defeat Southwest Conference member Arkansas on their home field. The Razorbacks dominated the game statistically, as they moved the ball at will. But each time Arkansas approached the goal line, the Hendrix defense stiffened. Fumbles,
In his book “Football Texas Style”, legendary SWC broadcaster Kern Tips described the birth of college football at the end of the 19th century in the Lone Star state. Among the rise of programs in Austin & College Station were “denominational little giants as Austin College” and others. Tips continues: “This latter group of schools
