Thank you Annie. Seems like an awesome site. I like this one:
https://thetexan.news/thanksgiving-throwback-1921-am-v-ut-game-launched-college-football-radio-broadcasting/Never knew that, though it would be interesting to note the 12th man tradition also originated in said game later that year (well, Jan '22) against Centre College.
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Going into the 1921 rivalry game, UT had lost only one game a 20-0 drubbing at the hands of Vanderbilt and A&M lost one to Louisiana State University and tied Rice. With the previous year's tight finish, another nail-biter was on the horizon.
As it turned out, one can envision the broadcaster distraughtly relaying the final score pronouncing, "As God is my witness…I thought someone would score a point."
The contest, aptly positioned as the season's final game, finished in a knock-down, drag-out, barn-burning 0-0 tie. Today's Big 12 fans accustomed to the opposite problem of defenses so porous they make the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 look like Ellis Island would not abide.
Indeed, the most notable thing to come out of that game was the radio and play-by-play broadcast.
Perhaps even a straight line can be faintly drawn between the 1921 Texas v. A&M Thanksgiving game and WKRP's infamous turkey execution. After all, both were broadcast over the radio.
With the tie, A&M supplanted UT as the champion of the Southwestern Conference and then went on to beat the Centre College of Danville Praying Colonels in the Dixie Classic, the precursor to the Cotton Bowl.
For decades, football and radio have been intertwined. College football Saturdays would not be complete without the Mecca-bound walk by fans of any team to their respective football temples, serenaded by the sounds of pregame talk shows on handheld radios.
And radio would not be complete without the captivating verbal transmission of a team's methodical but efficient march down the field for a game-winning touchdown.
A match made in heaven well, made in Aggie heaven: Kyle Field.
Funny. I'd like to see more history about some of the older smaller towns like Montgomery, Waxahachie etc. Just my two cents. Thx again!
