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The Inside Story of the Hook’em Horns Hand Gesture
1955 is the Beginning of Big Bertha and the Hook ’em Horns sign. Harley Clark (far right in photo) says he was inspired by a sign the Italians used that looked like a stylized longhorn with two protruding fingers representing the horns. What the Hand Hook’em Horn Gesture means in Italy In Italy, the Hook…
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Texas Longhorn Sports Pioneers- not completed more to add
Sports pioneers are risk-takers, and without their vision, there is no beginning. Visionaries move programs forward through the strength of their will and a focus on the future, not the present. Where others have failed, sports pioneers can successfully implement new ideas and remove obstacles that others cannot. In particular Coaching pioneers not only have…
1923 Santa Rita
The 1959 Longhorn band memorializes the Santa Rita UT owns 2,108,966 acres of Texas land. In the mid-1800s, the legislator thought it was worthless and God-forsaken West TX brush country, and at the time, it was. The New York investors who staked corral Cromwell to drill on it were so skeptical they named the project…
1923-1924 season
The collective record for the Longhorn baseball, football, and basketball team in 1922-1923 season was 60-1-1. That record will never be beaten. 1923-1924 BasketBall 23 Wins 0 losses Baseball team 29 and 1 1923 Football team 8 -0-1 1924 1924 is one of the best years ever for Texas Sports. football
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Origin of Teapots and The football Teapot Tradition
Below is 1967 Teapot Charlie Copeland The Longhorn Teapot Saga The Origin of Tea-sips as told by Ray Gonzales The term “tea sip” came from our university cafeteria, a wooden structure, unfortunately, named the “tea house” that was located near the Simkins dorm. I even ate there. The aggies saw it and made fun…
