On October 19, 1894, the University of Texas football team defeated a squad from the then Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas by a score 38-0 at Austin’s Hyde Park.
They would meet again four years later — this time the Longhorns would prevail 48-0. For the next 113 years, the Longhorns and Aggies did battle either on Thanksgiving Day or the day after and created one of the best rivalries in all of college football.
This rivalry divided families and drew battle lines across the state. So bitter was the venom between the two that each school’s respective fight song, “Texas Fight” and the “Aggie War Hymn,” mentions the other.