Old UT Photos

Discussion in 'In The Stands' started by Dionysus, Jul 28, 2017.

  1. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Check this out. 1910 Murad Tobacco silk with a UT hockey player?!?!?

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  2. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    ^ That's a good one
     
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  3. Chop

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  4. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    I guess "Murad Tobacco" used to put these like trading cards in their cigarette packages or something...
     
  5. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Here we go. Here's the explanation:

    "In the early 1900s, tobacco companies produced sports cards as a way of promoting their brands. One brand did this with college students in mind – Murad, which produced Turkish tobacco products.
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    Murad produced all sorts of cards and collectibles
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    In addition to cards, Murad also ventured into the silks market. Like cards, these were also packaged with tobacco products.
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    Instead of creating only a single card for each college, they included fewer colleges (25) with ten different sports being featured for each one, ...

    Murad Sought College Tobacco Market With Sports Cards, Silks, And Felts
     
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  6. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

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    1903 UT baseball team with old-fashioned Pittsburgh Pirates - like hats.
     
  7. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    You know, other than as a recent unsupported "club sport", I don't think we've EVER had a hockey team at UT. Maybe Murad Tobacco simply did the same 10 sports for every college they picked out.

    Murad used Turkish tobacco, but was hand rolled in NYC under the supervision of a Greek immigrant/industrialist. Maybe he just figured all American colleges had hockey teams...? I think this is hillarious. :lmao:This whole thing cracks me up so much, I'm making it my new signature on this website. Now I'm all for a hockey team at UT, it's just that we've never had one until recently and it's (currently) only at the "club" level. Also, I don't even smoke, but the description of Murad hand-rolled Turkish smokes sure sounds good.

    Murad (cigarette) - Wikipedia

    UT "club sport" hockey:
    University of Texas Ice Hockey
     
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  8. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Another flower car from a 1920s parade down the Drag:

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  9. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    And yet another silly car from a parade down the Drag:

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  10. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    1910-1912

    These were our football uniforms:
    :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

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  11. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    The Rare Books Terrace:

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  12. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Original BMD
     
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  13. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    1973: UT’s Saturday Morning Fun Club was a student group which gathered at the Texas Union theater Saturday mornings to eat breakfast, watch cartoons, and, apparently, engage in paper airplane battles.

    Saturday Morning Fun Club sounds like one of the greatest things ever.

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  14. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Dion,

    Great picture. I always thought you had to be a foreign exchange student to get into the Union.
     
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  15. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    I think I went into the student union once when I was there. They were showing 2001 A Space Odyssey. Still that picture looks like maybe I missed some fun times.
     
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  16. Dionysus

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    1840: When Austin was founded as the capital of the Republic of Texas, surveyors laid out a street grid between Waller and Shoal Creeks, then labeled a 40-acre tract north of Capitol Square as “College Hill.”

    Left alone for four decades, UT Austin was placed there in 1881.

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  17. Dionysus

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    1918: A practice football scrimmage at the original Clark Field. That’s B. Hall (men’s dorm), Old Main, and today’s Gebauer Building in the back.

    The photo was sent to Jim Nicar by UT grad Margaret Bryan. It was taken by her grandfather, who was a UT student at the time.

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  18. Dionysus

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    UT’s original Clark Field - the athletic field - was at 24th and Speedway, and the seating was almost entirely built by student volunteers. The west side covered stands were begun in 1912 (top) and completed by 1916 (bottom), which raised the capacity to 16,000 fans.

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  19. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Not so much an old photo but you may remember this crew from 2005.

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  20. Giovanni Jones

    Giovanni Jones 2,500+ Posts

    Feels like a long time ago, so OK to post here
     
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  21. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    I think we will be seeing a new one similar VERY soon
     
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  22. Dionysus

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    I like this positive spirit :hookem:
     
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  23. Dionysus

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    1938: In front of 35,000 fans, UT was 0-8 for the season going into the Thanksgiving Day Texas vs. A&M game. Late in the 4th quarter, Nelson Puett, playing with a fractured collar bone, dived into the end zone for UT’s only score. Texas won 7-6.

    I hear those Aggies were pretty good the following year.

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  24. Dionysus

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    1940: UT women’s archery class at Pease Park. UT was widely believed to have the best women’s P.E. department and intramural sports program in the nation, with baseball, tennis, golf, equestrian, swimming, basketball, bowling, fencing, hiking, gymnastics, and more.

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  25. Dionysus

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    1886-87 school year: The COMPLETE course schedule by day, time, class level, and subject. Classes were taught from 9am - 3pm Monday through Saturday, except for law. At bottom: “Law Lectures daily from 10 to 11 1/2 and from 11 1/2 to 1”

    They didn’t use “11:30” or “eleven-thirty” back then?

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  26. HornsUp4Life

    HornsUp4Life 25+ Posts

    LMBO!!!!
     
  27. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    1906: Members of the UT tennis team - two wearing their letter sweaters - pose on one of a pair of clay courts installed along Guadalupe Street. With Old Main and the water tank at the top of the hill, they're standing about where the Harry Ransom Center is today.

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  28. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Love these old photos!
     
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  29. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    December 7, 1941: The end of a wild UT football season: the Longhorns' first ever #1 ranking, hex candles against the Aggies, a 71-7 blowout of Oregon, Pearl Harbor, and a Rose Bowl that was nearly held in Austin.

    The (almost) Austin Rose Bowl: UT History Corner

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  30. LousianaHorn

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    there was a a frosh from Mission Texas there that fall named Thomas Wade Landry.....................
     
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