But journalists who covered football games, for example, couldn’t simply refer to a team as ‘varsity, as that could be applied to either school, and always writing out the full name – the University of Texas football team – was too cumbersome. Instead, the use of mascots as team name...
The first football game of the season was set for October 15 at Add-Ran College (later Texas Christian University) in Waco. The team, though, had a uniform problem. Phillips, who was starting his second season as football manager and was one of the three students on the Athletic Council,...