BOY INJURED IN CLASH DIES
An eyewitness gave an account of the fight that broke out at a college football game Saturday, in which a student was injured fatally.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 1. - (AP) - An eye-witness account of the clash at the Baylor-Texas A. & M. football game Saturday, in which Charles M. Sessums of Dallas, A. & M. student was injured fatally, was given Monday by Miss Esther Didzun of Houston.
"It started," she said, "when a car, driven by a Baylor boy, filled to overflowing with Baylor girls dressed in costumes of all the years that Baylor has defeated A. & M., started a parade down the field. One could hardly see the boy at the wheel. The girls were seated all around him, several with their legs hanging over the sides of the car.
"The car crossed the dividing line between the two college camps and as it neared the end of the field, opposite the A. & M. section an A. & M. boy dashed out to it and leaped right into the center of the car crowded with girls.
"One girl was knocked clear off the car. She rolled over several times and must have been pretty badly injured.
"After this episode, the Baylor boys made a rush for the car to save the girls and the lone boy at the wheel.
"Precisely what happened next I could not tell, nor could anyone else, for in a moment there was a swarming madly in every direction. Some of the boys carried clubs and chairs.
"I understand that Sessums was struck over the head with a chair. I doubt if anyone in that wild throng of college students knows today who struck him."
Only the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the Aggie band, led by its quick-witted band leader, stopped the fighting, it is said. for the cadets were forced to stand at attention.
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BOY INJURED IN CLASH DIES
An eyewitness gave an account of the fight that broke out at a college football game Saturday, in which a student was injured fatally.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 1. - (AP) - An eye-witness account of the clash at the Baylor-Texas A. & M. football game Saturday, in which Charles M. Sessums of Dallas, A. & M. student was injured fatally, was given Monday by Miss Esther Didzun of Houston.
"It started," she said, "when a car, driven by a Baylor boy, filled to overflowing with Baylor girls dressed in costumes of all the years that Baylor has defeated A. & M., started a parade down the field. One could hardly see the boy at the wheel. The girls were seated all around him, several with their legs hanging over the sides of the car.
"The car crossed the dividing line between the two college camps and as it neared the end of the field, opposite the A. & M. section an A. & M. boy dashed out to it and leaped right into the center of the car crowded with girls.
"One girl was knocked clear off the car. She rolled over several times and must have been pretty badly injured.
"After this episode, the Baylor boys made a rush for the car to save the girls and the lone boy at the wheel.
"Precisely what happened next I could not tell, nor could anyone else, for in a moment there was a swarming madly in every direction. Some of the boys carried clubs and chairs.
"I understand that Sessums was struck over the head with a chair. I doubt if anyone in that wild throng of college students knows today who struck him."
Only the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the Aggie band, led by its quick-witted band leader, stopped the fighting, it is said. for the cadets were forced to stand at attention.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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BOY INJURED IN CLASH DIES
An eyewitness gave an account of the fight that broke out at a college football game Saturday, in which a student was injured fatally.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 1. - (AP) - An eye-witness account of the clash at the Baylor-Texas A. & M. football game Saturday, in which Charles M. Sessums of Dallas, A. & M. student was injured fatally, was given Monday by Miss Esther Didzun of Houston.
"It started," she said, "when a car, driven by a Baylor boy, filled to overflowing with Baylor girls dressed in costumes of all the years that Baylor has defeated A. & M., started a parade down the field. One could hardly see the boy at the wheel. The girls were seated all around him, several with their legs hanging over the sides of the car.
"The car crossed the dividing line between the two college camps and as it neared the end of the field, opposite the A. & M. section an A. & M. boy dashed out to it and leaped right into the center of the car crowded with girls.
"One girl was knocked clear off the car. She rolled over several times and must have been pretty badly injured.
"After this episode, the Baylor boys made a rush for the car to save the girls and the lone boy at the wheel.
"Precisely what happened next I could not tell, nor could anyone else, for in a moment there was a swarming madly in every direction. Some of the boys carried clubs and chairs.
"I understand that Sessums was struck over the head with a chair. I doubt if anyone in that wild throng of college students knows today who struck him."
Only the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the Aggie band, led by its quick-witted band leader, stopped the fighting, it is said. for the cadets were forced to stand at attention.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
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BOY INJURED IN CLASH DIES
An eyewitness gave an account of the fight that broke out at a college football game Saturday, in which a student was injured fatally.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 1. - (AP) - An eye-witness account of the clash at the Baylor-Texas A. & M. football game Saturday, in which Charles M. Sessums of Dallas, A. & M. student was injured fatally, was given Monday by Miss Esther Didzun of Houston.
"It started," she said, "when a car, driven by a Baylor boy, filled to overflowing with Baylor girls dressed in costumes of all the years that Baylor has defeated A. & M., started a parade down the field. One could hardly see the boy at the wheel. The girls were seated all around him, several with their legs hanging over the sides of the car.
"The car crossed the dividing line between the two college camps and as it neared the end of the field, opposite the A. & M. section an A. & M. boy dashed out to it and leaped right into the center of the car crowded with girls.
"One girl was knocked clear off the car. She rolled over several times and must have been pretty badly injured.
"After this episode, the Baylor boys made a rush for the car to save the girls and the lone boy at the wheel.
"Precisely what happened next I could not tell, nor could anyone else, for in a moment there was a swarming madly in every direction. Some of the boys carried clubs and chairs.
"I understand that Sessums was struck over the head with a chair. I doubt if anyone in that wild throng of college students knows today who struck him."
Only the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the Aggie band, led by its quick-witted band leader, stopped the fighting, it is said. for the cadets were forced to stand at attention.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
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BOY INJURED IN CLASH DIES
An eyewitness gave an account of the fight that broke out at a college football game Saturday, in which a student was injured fatally.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 1. - (AP) - An eye-witness account of the clash at the Baylor-Texas A. & M. football game Saturday, in which Charles M. Sessums of Dallas, A. & M. student was injured fatally, was given Monday by Miss Esther Didzun of Houston.
"It started," she said, "when a car, driven by a Baylor boy, filled to overflowing with Baylor girls dressed in costumes of all the years that Baylor has defeated A. & M., started a parade down the field. One could hardly see the boy at the wheel. The girls were seated all around him, several with their legs hanging over the sides of the car.
"The car crossed the dividing line between the two college camps and as it neared the end of the field, opposite the A. & M. section an A. & M. boy dashed out to it and leaped right into the center of the car crowded with girls.
"One girl was knocked clear off the car. She rolled over several times and must have been pretty badly injured.
"After this episode, the Baylor boys made a rush for the car to save the girls and the lone boy at the wheel.
"Precisely what happened next I could not tell, nor could anyone else, for in a moment there was a swarming madly in every direction. Some of the boys carried clubs and chairs.
"I understand that Sessums was struck over the head with a chair. I doubt if anyone in that wild throng of college students knows today who struck him."
Only the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the Aggie band, led by its quick-witted band leader, stopped the fighting, it is said. for the cadets were forced to stand at attention.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Brownsville Herald, November 1, 1926, page 1.
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