Cool photo of DKR on Thanksgiving Day in 1940

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,932]

Thanksgiving day, 1940. Texas beat the Aggies 7-0 when Noble Doss made "The Catch."  It was the only thing that kept the Aggies from winning back to back national championships. Note Gregory Gym at the top.





 

[jettrink 40]

If you squint, you can see armybrat in the third row.  

[bullet 1,630]

I thought the baseball stadium was on the opposite side of DKR, where it was called Freshman Field when I was in school as the baseball stadium had been moved across the freeway.

[Hermanator 7,676]

[Not that Bob 743]

42 minutes ago, bullet said:

I thought the baseball stadium was on the opposite side of DKR, where it was called Freshman Field when I was in school as the baseball stadium had been moved across the freeway.

Photo is taken from the east...north east technically.  Billy Goat Hill is where it should be. 

[Nueces River Rat 5,797]

Defiantly more people there than at DKR last Friday.  

[millhouse 2,733]

I dont see dkr in any of those pictures 

[Deej 77,853]

1 hour ago, jettrink said:

If you squint, you can see armybrat in the third row.  

He got a senior discount on his ticket for that game.

[ButtFumble 5,287]

man if they had kept the baseball field there and just moved the stands back to expand and kept the hill as part of it it would have been so much better

instead it was placed in a shit location and made as generic as possible......the story of UT Athletics that has been soooo hard to climb out from

the only thing that has really been done truly right in a long long time was the major expansion of the football stajium when they took out the horseshoe and made it look so much better and improved the seating

[Blotto 24,036]

So the LBJ school and lawn area seem a bit different.

[ButtFumble 5,287]

3 minutes ago, Blotto said:

So the LBJ school and lawn area seem a bit different.

none of that was even in planning in 1940

[Surly Bevo 25,759]

8 minutes ago, Blotto said:

So the LBJ school and lawn area seem a bit different.

Who the hell is John F Kennedy?

[Hagbard Celine 11,272]

Garrison Hall holla

[DaggerHorns 3,170]

37 minutes ago, Blotto said:

So the LBJ school and lawn area seem a bit different.

The Bass concert hall looking very sporty as well.

[Gucci_Suit 2,829]

What’s with the ga….  ah, nevermind. 

[bullet 1,630]

2 hours ago, Not that Bob said:

Photo is taken from the east...north east technically.  Billy Goat Hill is where it should be. 

Freshman Field was renamed Clark Field after the Billy Goat Hill Clark Field closed.  That was my confusion.  Its that grassy area SW of Memorial stadium and east of the dorms.

[TrashMaster G 18,116]

3 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

man if they had kept the baseball field there and just moved the stands back to expand and kept the hill as part of it it would have been so much better

instead it was placed in a shit location and made as generic as possible......the story of UT Athletics that has been soooo hard to climb out from

the only thing that has really been done truly right in a long long time was the major expansion of the football stajium when they took out the horseshoe and made it look so much better and improved the seating

What a load of crap. 

[DalTxHornFan 3,130]

Billy Goat Hill was pretty damn good, and I miss the old Rosenblatt in Omaha, but times change.

Looking forward to some great times at Disch-Falk and at CWS in Downtown Omaha in 2022.

[Eggo 4,026]

8 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Who the hell is John F Kennedy?

Well, JFK's Harvard thesis was published in 1940, so I'm guessing there were at least a few people at that game who could have answered that question. 

[Underdog 29,201]

That’s Gregory in the background? 

[Telegraph_it 3,379]

Fucking theatre ruined everything. 

[CycleTex87 3,043]

Is that @Armybrat catching the touchdown pass?

[n64ra 1,150]

Cool photo, but I'm not sure aggy would have leaped 8-0 Minnesota, who was #1 for the three weeks leading up to the final poll. Nice that the loss guaranteed aggy not being #1.

Edited November 30, 2021 by n64ra

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,913]

Appears that Clark Field doubled as the practice football field .. or maybe home to University Junior High’s team? 🤔

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2,651]

2 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

Appears that Clark Field doubled as the practice football field .. or maybe home to University Junior High’s team? 🤔

Good eyes 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,913]

1 minute ago, ONE YARD said:

Good eyes 

They’re upon us ..

[gsoda3 3,362]

nice pic, roberts looks massive in that picture.  you can see the beginning of moorehill taking shape.

[dcar00 14,980]

43 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

Appears that Clark Field doubled as the practice football field .. or maybe home to University Junior High’s team? 🤔

in the old days, at the disch, you could see faded football lines on the old turf because the band used it to practice on.  could be the same situation

[Armybrat 41,420]

50 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

Appears that Clark Field doubled as the practice football field .. or maybe home to University Junior High’s team? 🤔

The practice field in the 1950s & 1960s was on the west side of Waller Creek where Caven Clark Field is now.

In the 1960s that practice area was called Reggie Grob Field - named for a freshman player who died of heat exhaustion after an August twoadays practice session.

https://www.texaslsn.org/reggie-grob

Edited November 30, 2021 by Armybrat

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,913]

2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

The practice field in the 1950s & 1960s was on the west side of Waller Creek where Caven Clark Field is now.

In the 1960s that practice area was called Reggie Grob Field - named for a freshman player who died of heat exhaustion after an August twoadays practice session.

My memory of the old layout is sketchy.  But, is Caven Clark what was the intramural field in the 60’s .. SW adjacent to Memorial Stadium?

I vividly recall the Reggie Grob tragedy.  In retrospect, it’s surprising there weren’t more with so many southern schools preparing for seasons in sauna-like late summer weather.

[Armybrat 41,420]

That field became the intramural field sometime in the late ‘60s, I think. Up until then it was the football practice field. 
Or maybe it doubled as both.

 

[Guest Lobo]

I see that even 70 years ago, parking at DKR was just an absolute delight.  

Photos like this hurt my burnt orange heart.  We had a chance to have such a more beautiful campus if we had continued the themes and styles of the original buildings from 1880-1940 with upgraded amenities inside.  Instead, everything we built from 1950-1990 is just ass-ugly inside and out.  We're getting some cool new toys the last ~10 years but we still have so many fucking eyesores, many of them erected in those empty areas you see in that photo.  Don't get me wrong, overall...I think we have a very pretty campus...but it could have been world class.  I hope the shit we're starting to do on East Campus/Manor/Blackhills has something interesting to it.  

[Michael Knight 13,238]

traffic on i-35 looks great

[pyrohornIII 4,846]

Silly me.  I was expecting something like this:

[bullet 1,630]

26 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

Silly me.  I was expecting something like this:

Reminds me of a picture in my high school annual labelled, "Senior races sophomore."   Well if the Senior is the little guy, that disses the seniors.  If the sophomore is the little guy, well the sophomore is winning the race.

[Nueces River Rat 5,797]

21 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

none of that was even in planning in 1940

Yea.  LBJ was a second term Congressman making his connections in South Texas to steal the 1948 senate election.   

[Not that Bob 743]

Mother used to drive and park between the Freshman Field and the stadium so I could get autographs from the players as they were leaving practice and going back to the locker room. Likely she was also seeing how the young men looked, but I got lots of good autographs. Bobby Lackey is one I remember, and Johnny Treadwell. Treadwell signed my stuffed Bevo across the butthole. He got a chuckle when he handed it back to me. I still have that stuffed Bevo. I'd part with just about any possession I have before I'd let that Bevo go. Mom taught me the words to the songs and some of the cheers. I think she graduated in '40 or '41. She made flash cards with the players names and numbers and had me grill her so she could know who was playing when she and Dad went to games. Thanks Mom. You gave me wonderful memories. 

No traffic. No hassle parking. I guess the guys walked across Waller Creek, but I don't remember them having wet shoes. I have a vague memory of going on the Freshman field myself after a game and seeing grass burrs on the field. Damn man! Tough kids. 

[Texas Jeff 1,999]

All those little houses around campus look cool.  It's amazing that in the 45 years between that photo and when I got to campus in the mid-80's, ALL of those houses were wiped away and replaced with state office buildings and more and more campus.

[Not that Bob 743]

Look closely at the Doss photo. The men wore suits and ties and fedoras to football games. Different time.

[Steel Shank 9,556]

11 hours ago, Underdog said:

That’s Gregory in the background? 

It's "The Gregg" according to your boy, Lowell Galindo!! lol!!

[Deej 77,853]

7 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

It's "The Gregg" according to your boy, Lowell Galindo!! lol!!

Poor Lowell. At least he can make some scratch giving out hand jobs once LHN goes belly up. 

[Grande Mart 538]

That was a  little more than a year before Pearl Harbor. Lots of people in that pic were not long away from service in WWII.  Gave even more meaning to Texas Memorial Stadium.

[PittsburghTiger 6,349]

I like how the cars are all parked snaking along the sides of the streets.

Old pictures are cool.

[dcar00 14,980]

On 11/30/2021 at 2:10 PM, Lobo said:

I see that even 70 years ago, parking at DKR was just an absolute delight.  

Photos like this hurt my burnt orange heart.  We had a chance to have such a more beautiful campus if we had continued the themes and styles of the original buildings from 1880-1940 with upgraded amenities inside.  Instead, everything we built from 1950-1990 is just ass-ugly inside and out.  We're getting some cool new toys the last ~10 years but we still have so many fucking eyesores, many of them erected in those empty areas you see in that photo.  Don't get me wrong, overall...I think we have a very pretty campus...but it could have been world class.  I hope the shit we're starting to do on East Campus/Manor/Blackhills has something interesting to it.  

what? you no like dystopian communist block architecture?

[ImissWallyPryor 9,046]

What’s with the gap?

[Gaffords 778]

On 11/29/2021 at 5:43 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Thanksgiving day, 1940. Texas beat the Aggies 7-0 when Noble Doss made "The Catch."  It was the only thing that kept the Aggies from winning back to back national championships. Note Gregory Gym at the top.





 

Sweet!  Thanks for sharing

[Zone Read 299]

My dads been gone since 1985.  He was a senior that year, I remember him saying that it was one of the most fun games he ever attended.  He was on the sidelines reporting on the game for the Daily Texan.  He said that after the game there were corps members crying in the stands.  He would often say that scene was one of his fondest memories.  Started his Master's program at UT the following year and dropped out 3 days after Pearl Harbor to enlist.  CSB.