Dressing up for football games used to be done at Rice in the old days. I remember seeing of the older men wearing coat and tie to Rice games way back in the 1960s. Rice games used to be a very big event until other events crowded out their importance in Houston. Rice games were night games in September and October and switched to day in November.
Night: SMU, Texas, out of conference
Day: Arkansas, A&M, TCU and Baylor
The first game of the season was about the middle of September.
One reason the Aggies would have a lot of day games was a lack of motel space so fans would have to drive up that day to the game. (However, I did take a charter train from Houston to an Aggie game in 1959.)
Now, almost every school will schedule games when ESPN wants them to be played. I think it would have been better to have the outside A&M-Rice game at night and have the inside Jerry World game moved to day.
I remember the Arkansas stadium at Fayetteville still did not have lights when I went up to a Rice game in the early 1980s. That was before the better roads were built through the hills so they did not want a lot of night game traffic. Arkansas played some of its games in Little
Rock which did have lights so I saw a night Rice game there.
(08-27-2013 07:24 AM)ETx Owl Wrote: Going to be there. Dress down I would say. A&M of course does not do the SEC thing of coat and tie. 100 degrees. 12th man will be gone, win or draw after half, so noise should not be a factor. As Ags prostitute the TV dollar, and them being not as popular as Alabama and LSU, they will have day games scheduled always and I look for them to have a more DKR Longhorn atmosphere in the future, as fans and their students do not embrace standing in hot sun, nor yelling until at least until October.
I'll be there in the Aggie Alumni section, 35 yard line. Won't wear purple, but probably have to learn some cheers.
