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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.

I agree with the exaggerated part, who knows what actually happened. The only absolute certainty about a UGA game against Auburn in 1892 is during the 4th quarter there was a large group of Georgia fans screaming "Run the damn ball, Bobo!"

What do ranchers do with their Longhorns?  That's an expensive animal to maintain, they have to be good for something.  Leather products?

Also, why do so many restaurants put "Longhorn" in their name?  That would make sense in Austin, but not for chains or local joints elsewhere.  It certainly creates the perception they're good eatin'. 

My observation is that very few ranchers , at least in these parts, even raise them. 
The ones that do are more for show. 

My observation is that very few ranchers , at least in these parts, even raise them.
The ones that do are more for show.

I see them on some ranches around here, but not as commonly as some other breeds.  I don't know any of the ranchers to ask about them, though.  

Huh?  Where does it say, what you said?

By 1927, a dark shade of orange--"Texas Orange"--was being used, but:

But during World War II, when everything from chocolate to typewriters was rationed, Texas Orange dyes went off the market—they had been produced for O’Shea in Germany. The Horns switched back to a lighter dye, another yellowy orange that the regents made official on UT’s seal in 1950.[/color]

It stayed that way for less than a decade, when a young coach and former Oklahoma quarterback named Darrell K Royal showed up on the Forty Acres.

I think that the Texas Exes' article is pretty authoritative. I linked it for that reason, AFTER giving "what I have read" accounts. There was a 10-15 year break in the use of burnt orange. And Mack Brown Darrell Royal brought burnt orange back and it has stayed that way.

I did not assert that "what I also read" was authoritative. The jersey-matching-football story is just one of those tales that go around to explain things that we don't really know about. But I did read it online, and IIRC I read it on a UT-oriented site maybe 20+ years ago. Maybe it was the same site that explained the origin of the UT marching band uniforms.

Longhorn cows.... shades of orange... geez....

WTF is Oklahoma wearing?  They look like Texas Tech out there.  

Lame.  

I hope they at least look right when they curb-stomp us next week. 

Mack Brown didn't bring back burnt orange.  I'm really not sure what you think you're reading in that article.

He encouraged fans to "wear orange" at the football games.  Which is what that article stated, and indeed what happened in real life.  Before that, folks wore all kinds of whatever to football games.  But that wasn't just at Texas-- if you look at footage from TX-OU in the 80s, the crowd wasn't half-orange and half-crimson.  If anything it was mostly white at both endzones.  Folks didn't really start showing out in nothing but school colors, until the mid/late 90s.

But anyway, burnt orange for the football team, returned for good under Saint Darrell.

Ay-yi-yi! I've been typing "Mack Brown" when I meant "Darrell Royal." Sorry about that.