http://bevotraditions.blogspot.com/2010/11/bevo-and-how-he-really-got-his-name.html
Some teasip wrote this.... since it's almost a 100 year old tradition, who knows?
Pardon my ignorance, but is there some sort of rivalry between these two schools?
Like Russia and Ukraine, but not quite as civil.
Now if Texas A&M only had the foresight to get their flowers declared endangered so they could not be legally removed.
don't get my Texas kin started on Aggie jokes...take every polish joke and substitute Aggie.
...Just a little.
Noooooo.......
Nah. Now Auburn and Alabama, THAT’s a rivalry.
Not anymore. A&M is now SEC...and left TU in the dust ;)
(See post # 18)
Whoop!
This is a small part of the story here:
http://everything2.com/title/Texas+A%2526M-University+of+Texas+Rivalry
Also, going back to the Vietnam War times, the rivalry was especially fierce, because Texas A&M was full of patriotic military cadets and t.u.austin was full of hippie-antiAmerican commie-loving baistages.
http://www.thebatt.com/sports/bill-would-revive-a-m-ut-rivalry-1.2977750#.U0xPffldXl4
Bill would revive A&M-UT rivalry
By Mark Doré
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 00:01
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The A&M-UT rivalry is the third most-played rivalry in Division 1-A college football.
Texas State Representative Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, filed House Bill 778 on Monday, an action that, if passed, would reinstitute a longstanding, recently discontinued in-state athletic rivalry.
Guillen, a Class of 2000 Aggie graduate, took to Twitter saying the bill would require UT and A&M to play each other annually in a nonconference, regular season football game.
The two schools met on the football field every year from 1914 through 2011, but an A&M move to the Southeastern Conference derailed the rivalry.
“This game is as much a Texas tradition as cowboy boots and barbecue,” Guillen told The Texas Tribune. “The purpose of the bill is to put the eyes of Texas upon our two greatest universities to restore this sacred Texas tradition.”
The bill doesn’t specify when the game should occur, but it does state that whichever team refused to participate in the contest would suffer restrictions on its athletic scholarships, reported the Texas Tribune.
“I think the people of Texas want a game, and we’re trying to get them one,” Guillen said.
There is some precedent for the filing. In 1955, a Florida Legislature bill that sought to require an annual Florida-Florida State game in all sports was struck down, but then-governor LeRoy Collins personally requested that the schools’ athletic directors work out a deal, which they eventually did.
In 1997, a similar bill was passed in North Carolina Legislature demanding University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and North Carolina State play East Carolina annually.
The Alabama House of Representatives also passed a similar measure in 1947 intended to encourage an Iron Bowl renewal between Auburn and Alabama. When the schools continued their impasse, the legislature threatened to withhold state funding unless the rivalry was resumed.
http://bevotraditions.blogspot.com/2010/11/bevo-and-how-he-really-got-his-name.html
Some teasip wrote this.... since it's almost a 100 year old tradition, who knows?
Rivalry? Rivalry you say? How about mortal enemies?
I have seen Tea Sips driven from the sacred ground of Kyle Field at SABER POINT! I’m not saying which end of the Saber my “friend” was at.
Whoooop!
‘course I’ve also seen Ags duct taped between two mattresses naked, hauled to Nebraska and dumped in a truck stop parking lot. The Corps gets pretty tough when it is open season on white belts.