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Cincydawg · « **Reply #1218 on:** November 20, 2025, 10:37:40 AM »

A lot of the original history of such things is both interesting and at times probably exaggerated.

Playing football circa 1900 sounds like a tough operation.

Gigem · « **Reply #1219 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:03:10 AM »

Gigem · « **Reply #1220 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:15:19 AM »

Interesting article about Bevo I

https://jimnicar.com/2019/03/31/the-misadventures-of-bevos-head/

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #1221 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:28:19 AM »

Quote from: Gigem on November 20, 2025, 11:03:10 AM

I guess that could be real, but it looks like somebody just markered on a photograph.

Gigem · « **Reply #1222 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:31:52 AM »

You know, I never really thought about it. I've seen the picture floating around over the years, I always assumed it was real, but I have no idea how you would make a brand that big, most are fairly small. Maybe them old cowboys had a different method or something. Branding a cow that size would take considerable effort. Anyways that is from a UT-centric account, not an A&M one.

Gigem · « **Reply #1223 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:33:33 AM »

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When peacetime again returned to the campus, University officials considered the Bevo situation, and declared the steer was simply too wild to attend football games. Besides, many UT students had lost interest in Bevo; he had, after all, only made a single public appearance two years previously, and those who remembered him thought the mascot had been “ruined” by the 13 – 0 brand still on his side. Besides, the students already had a huggable, pettable live mascot in the form of Pig Bellmont. As it was costing 60 cents a day to keep an unsuitable Bevo on a ranch, the athletics department decided to make the animal the barbecued main course of the January 1920 football banquet for the 1919 Longhorn team.

Both Pickney and Iglehart attended the event, along with a delegation from A&M. “The branding iron was buried and the resumption of athletic relations, after an unhappy period . . . duly celebrated,” announced the Longhorn magazine, a monthly published by UT students. “The half of the hide bearing the mystic figures 13 to 0 was presented to A and M with appropriate ceremonies.” Bevo’s head and horns were mounted by a taxidermist in New Braunfels, and it and the other half of the hide were to be kept on the Forty Acres.

From the link. They ate him, and invited the Aggies to the feast.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #1224 on:** November 20, 2025, 11:33:40 AM »

Quote from: Mr Tulip on November 20, 2025, 10:08:43 AM

I believe Texas' original colors were Kelly green and white.
They wanted to throw a parade or something, and the general store didn't have any green bunting. They only had burnt orange, so they just went with it.

I'm fond of telling Mrs. Droog that Texas is burnt orange because it's the color no one else wanted.

Interesting.

That's similar to LSU's color origin story, of which said colors were initially blue and white. The team was on their way to play a game around the turn of the century and stopped off to get some ribbons to pin on themselves. The store was preparing for Mardi Gras and so had only those colors, but the shipments of green had not yet arrived. So they bought the available purple and gold ribbons and went with that. They won the game, and thereafter the athletes along with the president voted to change the school colors to their good-luck ribbons of purple and gold.

Makes me wonder how many colors came about through circumstances of some story rather than being a deliberate board-room decision that somebody chose and then they stuck with it.

utee94 · « **Reply #1225 on:** November 20, 2025, 01:08:47 PM »

Yup they Q'd him up and ate him. That's what cattle-ranching is for.

But Longhorns are generally tough and stringy compared to other breeds, it can't have been all that tasty.

MikeDeTiger · « **Reply #1226 on:** November 20, 2025, 03:13:56 PM »

I thought Longhorns are considered quality eating for fans of leaner cuts.

utee94 · « **Reply #1227 on:** November 20, 2025, 06:37:22 PM »

I know several people that ranch, and have Longhorns. Ain't nobody eating the Longhorns.

CWSooner · « **Reply #1228 on:** November 20, 2025, 08:12:57 PM »

Quote from: Mr Tulip on November 20, 2025, 10:08:43 AM

I believe Texas' original colors were Kelly green and white.
They wanted to throw a parade or something, and the general store didn't have any green bunting. They only had burnt orange, so they just went with it.

I'm fond of telling Mrs. Droog that Texas is burnt orange because it's the color no one else wanted.

The story I read was that Texas' colors were orange and white, but the orange dye turned yellow with washing. Players on opposing teams called the Texas players "yellowbellies." So they went to burnt orange on the theory that it would be more color-fast.

I also read that Mack Brown chose burnt orange because it was the color of the football and it would be hard for opponents to see who had the ball.

And this that I just googled up incorporates some of each of those stories, along with much else including other colors like . . . maroon. https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2018/06/the-story-of-burnt-orange

utee94 · « **Reply #1229 on:** November 20, 2025, 08:24:09 PM »

Quote from: CWSooner on November 20, 2025, 08:12:57 PM

The story I read was that Texas' colors were orange and white, but the orange dye turned yellow with washing. Players on opposing teams called the Texas players "yellowbellies." So they went to burnt orange on the theory that it would be more color-fast.

I also read that Mack Brown chose burnt orange because it was the color of the football and it would be hard for opponents to see who had the ball.

And this that I just googled up incorporates some of each of those stories, along with much else including other colors like . . . maroon. https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2018/06/the-story-of-burnt-orange

Texas' colors were burnt orange and white many decades before Mack Brown arrived in Austin.

Come on, man.

CWSooner · « **Reply #1230 on:** **Today** at 12:57:24 AM »

Quote from: utee94 on November 20, 2025, 08:24:09 PM

Texas' colors were burnt orange and white many decades before Mack Brown arrived in Austin.

Come on, man.

Did you not read the Texas Exes article I linked?

utee94 · « **Reply #1231 on:** **Today** at 02:08:52 AM »

Quote from: CWSooner on Today at 12:57:24 AM

Did you not read the Texas Exes article I linked?

Huh? Where does it say, what you said?

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