One of the GoMiddle.com posters was doing some research for MT sports history for the fall when football starts back up, but this was too good not to post what he turned up from 1936:

Quote:I've been researching some of the history of our sports and hope to start posting some of it in August but I found something that was too good, not to share. This may have been the beginning of the MT/Goattopper hatred. In a story in the week, leading up to the 1936 game in Bowling Green, it was mentioned that there were some possible hostile feeling toward Bubber Murphy because he had scored the winning touchdown in 1935 to give MT their first win against Western since 1921. The following is part summary and part plagiarism from the DNJ story of the game.

10-17-36: In Bowling Green, KY, the Raiders beat Western Kentucky 9-0. On the game's final play DE Joe Troop intercepted a Western Kentucky “shovel pass” and returned it for a score. After the play a WK player threw multiple punches at Bubber Murphy, which sparked “a free-for-all fight in which the entire squads of both schools and approximately 1,000 of the 5,000 spectators participated.” QB Woodie Smitherman was knocked unconscious in the 15 minutes that it took for order to be restored. It was reported that Western Kentucky was taking so many cheap shots on Murphy, that the game officials asked Coach Johnny “Red” Floyd to take him out of the game for his own safety.

Great stuff. Georgia and Georgia Tech once had a game in Atlanta turn out like that. Another game involving UGa -- I think against Tennessee but can't verify -- ended when a spectator came out of the stands, brandishing some type of firearm, and pronounced the game over.

(04-13-2016 08:34 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  One of the GoMiddle.com posters was doing some research for MT sports history for the fall when football starts back up, but this was too good not to post what he turned up from 1936:

Quote:I've been researching some of the history of our sports and hope to start posting some of it in August but I found something that was too good, not to share. This may have been the beginning of the MT/Goattopper hatred. In a story in the week, leading up to the 1936 game in Bowling Green, it was mentioned that there were some possible hostile feeling toward Bubber Murphy because he had scored the winning touchdown in 1935 to give MT their first win against Western since 1921. The following is part summary and part plagiarism from the DNJ story of the game.

10-17-36: In Bowling Green, KY, the Raiders beat Western Kentucky 9-0. On the game's final play DE Joe Troop intercepted a Western Kentucky “shovel pass” and returned it for a score. After the play a WK player threw multiple punches at Bubber Murphy, which sparked “a free-for-all fight in which the entire squads of both schools and approximately 1,000 of the 5,000 spectators participated.” QB Woodie Smitherman was knocked unconscious in the 15 minutes that it took for order to be restored. It was reported that Western Kentucky was taking so many cheap shots on Murphy, that the game officials asked Coach Johnny “Red” Floyd to take him out of the game for his own safety.

So this culture of theirs I talk about pre-dates us all. I bet there is a follow up in there somewhere that none of their players were disciplined.

Sorry couldn't resist.

One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

The FIU/Miami incident is up there too.

The big brawl at halftime of the MT/Kentucky football game in 02 was intense as well

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

(04-14-2016 09:35 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, we are terrible bunch!

(04-14-2016 09:35 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

They have found their rightful home in the SEC...

Cincinnati once had a game with Centre College (in Lexington, KY) that ended in a riot and needed a police escort back to the train station...

(04-14-2016 09:35 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

Rice's MOB probably deserved whatever comes their way. They tend to bring things like this upon themselves.

(04-14-2016 10:03 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:35 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, we are terrible bunch!

Angriest fan base in CFB

http://collegesports.blog.statesman.com/...e-country/

(04-16-2016 08:43 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 10:03 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:35 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-14-2016 09:04 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  One of the worst football melees happened at halftime of the 1926 Texas A&M / Baylor game. Here is my understanding of what happened. It was Baylor homecoming, and after words were exchanged when a float passed in front of the Corps of Cadets, some cadets charged the float causing a Baylor coed to fall off. Baylor fans immediately took exception and a large fight ensued which ended only when the Aggie band began playing the National Anthem and the cadets came to attention. While that was happening, a cadet at attention was hit in the back of his head with a wooden folding chair. He died the next day.

Tradition holds that the Aggies later loaded a howitzer on a freight train and were headed to Waco to shell the campus when the Texas Rangers became aware, intercepted the train, and stopped the Aggies. Thus was the beginning of the Battle of the Brazos.

I was at an Aggie/Baylor basketball game in College Station in 1968 or 1969 when the band had to stop another near riot. An Aggie player stole the ball and was on the way to an uncontested layup when a Baylor player tackled him from behind at about the top of the key. The two players slid in a heap into the stands at the end of the court -- right where the Aggie football team sat. The football players descended on the Baylor player with fists flying (He basically disappeared from view.), and both benches joined the fight. Once again, order was restored only when the Aggie Band began playing the National Anthem.

There remains no love lost between these two schools. Funny -- my brother graduated from Baylor after four years on a football scholarship. Ahh -- the good ol' days of the SWC.

It was always the Aggies wssn't it. The Rice MOB having to be taken out of their own stadium in windowless trucks, the SMU cheerleader menaced by a sword wielded by the Corps, highjacking a train and cutting phone lines to prevent Rice students from retrieving a stolen mascot, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, we are terrible bunch!

Angriest fan base in CFB

http://collegesports.blog.statesman.com/...e-country/

Hmm -- interesting opening line in that rating.

"1. Texas A&M

They may not take it this way, but I mean this as a compliment:"

Yep, Aggies are passionate, but, hey, I'll let it go now. My real passion is ODU, and this is the C-USA forum. Let's see -- which west teams did the Monarchs beat in their first year of C-USA football? Can't seem to remember -- oh yes -- one was defending champion Rice.

GIG 'EM MONARCHS!