SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!

Outstanding!

THE Pinky Wilson?!?!?!

I feel honored just to read your post.

I'm sorry for your recent loss. Drive on ARMY.

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Also that 1921 team was the one that played in the Dixie Classic on Jan 1, 1922.

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Cue WHA posting a photo of "Pinky" Wilson helping EKG put his football gear on and this thread will end the internet.

Is it dramatic irony that OPs handle is "war hymn aggie"

And agree these should be put in a museum for all Ags to see and appreciate.

WHA, thank you for sharing. As a former FTAB member (as many posters here are) this stuff is especially close to my heart. I plan to make the trip to see when you decide how to get it preserved and displayed.

That's a bevel folks! They all lined up to one side.. holy smoke!!

-GIG'EM!!

ps: this is why I keep coming back to the zoo :-)

Also.. as a collector of stuff (I collect sports cards).. PLEASE make this available to Texas A&M alumni, family and friends in the new KYLE FIELD museum. Really cool stuff. Belongs to Texas A&M.

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Is it dramatic irony that OPs handle is "war hymn aggie"

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He was fully aware that his grandfather wrote the War Hymn, so no, there's no irony. Sounds like there needs to be a mandatory class in campusology, at least for my fellow non-regs.

greatest thread ever!

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He was fully aware that his grandfather wrote the War Hymn, so no, there's no irony. Sounds like there needs to be a mandatory class in campusology, at least for my fellow non-regs.

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Pretty sure they used to call that Fish Camp

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Also.. as a collector of stuff (I collect sports cards).. PLEASE make this available to Texas A&M alumni, family and friends in the new KYLE FIELD museum. Really cool stuff. Belongs to Texas A&M.

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No it doesn't. It belongs to War Hymn Aggie.

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No it doesn't. It belongs to War Hymn Aggie.

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They used to, but it is called "Neon Camp" now.

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Nice.

sharing a few more with ya'll....my grandpa (or my Mimi) spent the time to make a couple of scrapbooks of his life before he passed. Stuff in them are AMAZING! Childhood pics, A&M pics, WW1 pics, Father pics, Golden Era pics, interviews... I've learned several things that shed a new light on what I thought was "the truth" about the story behind the making of the Aggie War Hymn.

Here ya go...original A&M baseball "cards" from the early-mid teens:

My grandpa & "Rip" Collins, the guy who gave "Pinky" his nickname.


A&M days:



Got lots more to share, but need to go for now....

OH....1 more!

OK...1 more....
Top left may be my grandpa leaning over the trunk that was previously posted. Top left is a postcard from the 1919 National Championship football squad. Unscored upon. WHOOP!
Bottom is a pic of my grandfather with one of his brothers and his mother. Pic was taken in 1906 and Pinky is the one holding up the pet Raccoon.


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A pet coon. If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass!

Love the pics.

Hate photobucket on iPhone. Can't zoom.

You can't zoom even after clicking on the picture, which brings it up on a new page?

Nope

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Hate photobucket on iPhone. Can't zoom.

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Hold down over the image in Photobucket. Click copy. Paste in the address bar. Voila.

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Hate photobucket on iPhone. Can't zoom.

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Hold down over the image in Photobucket. Click copy. Paste in the address bar. Voila.

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Thanks for the reminder. It does work, but is more cumbersome than it needs to be.

Not as bad as image search on Google, though. What a cluster that change has been, and Google still sticks with it.

Back to the thread, though. No hijacking this piece of history. (Saying this at myself.)

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Great stuff!

This is unbelievable!

Still waiting for sidelineguy to post a pic of him and your grandfather