The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

* Jim Thomason, an American football halfback and member of the 1939 national championship team of Texas A & M University, was selected fifth overall by the Detroit Lions in the 1941 NFL Draft.

He won the Heisman Trophy as a halfback at Texas A & M University in 1957.

After a year at the University of Arkansas, he transferred two times, and helped lead the football teams of both Texas Christian University ( 1945 ) and the University of Texas at Austin ( 1946 ) to consecutive Cotton Bowl Classic appearances as a halfback.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.

A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Needing cash, the Bidwills began entertaining offers from would-be investors, and one of the men who approached the Bidwills was Lamar Hunt, son and heir of Texas millionaire oilman H. L. Hunt.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

The show centers on two socially awkward, rock-loving teenage delinquents, Beavis and Butt-head ( both voiced by Judge ), who live in the town of Highland, Texas.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

After two heart attacks, in 1965 he dissolved the Texas Playboys ( who briefly continued as an independent unit ) to perform solo with house bands.

Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

The Texas rates encouraged the development of Dallas and Houston by blatantly discriminating against Texas shippers who marketed their goods via Shreveport, Louisiana.

TFI's founder and prophetic leader, David Berg, who was first called " Moses David " in the Texas press, communicated with his followers via Mo Letters — letters of instruction and counsel on myriad spiritual and practical subjects — until his death in late 1994.

The Amarillo Bass Base of Amarillo, Texas once featured 52 double bassists, and The London Double Bass Sound, who have released a CD on Cala Records, have 10 players.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

Shortly thereafter, McMullen ( who also owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils ) sold the team to Texas businessman Drayton McLane in 1993, who committed to keeping the team in Houston.

Jonsson, a co-founder of Texas Instruments, learned about Pei from his associate Cecil Howard Green, who had recruited the architect for MIT's Earth Sciences building.

In a way its implied that Anna doesn't care for her at times because she seems to be a reminder of what her life could have been like and what she could have turned into if she had never left Mexia, Texas.

Santorum then brought up the then-pending U. S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and said that " he did not have a problem with homosexuals, but a problem with homosexual acts ", " the right to privacy doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution ", and " sodomy laws properly exist to prevent acts which undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family.

Josh decides that he doesn't want Hoynes ( or current VP Bob Russell ) to be President, and instead convinces Texas Congressman Matt Santos to run for president, much in the same way Leo McGarry recruited Bartlet eight years prior.

After seeking the advice from an independent panel, the Chairman of the Texas Board requested information about the research conducted by the faculty, how an on-line program would expose students to the experimental side of science, and asked why " heir curriculum doesn't line up very well with the curriculum available in conventional master of science programs.

However, Josh doesn't believe that Hoynes could ever be the candidate he wants him to be, so he rejects his offer and finds himself a handpicked candidate, Texas Congressman Matt Santos.

The brewery has improved so much, that The Ellison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery — or apparently — running a business.

They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by this Texas guy whom we hardly even know.

Worker at carbon black plant in Sunray, Texas ( photo by John Vachon, 1942 ) Pure carbon has extremely low toxicity to humans and can be handled and even ingested safely in the form of graphite or charcoal.

Texas provides jury trial rights most broadly, including even the right to a jury trial on questions regarding child custody.

Regardless of rules of tagging, you can not pin your own tag team partner, even if it is technically possible from the rules of the match ( e. g. Texas Tornado rules, or a three-way tag team match ).

The Texas Congress even passed a resolution over Houston's veto claiming the Californias for Texas.

Some even today claim this treaty did not include Texas, over the annexation of which the quarrel began.

The total area of the land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific was even larger than the area of the state of Texas: federal government land grants totaled about 5, 261, 000, 000 square meters and state government land grants totaled about 1, 983, 000, 000 square meters.

As such, there is not Title 32 United States Code equivalent for the sea services, even though Alaska, California, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Texas and Ohio have incorporated Naval Militia units.

Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.

According to historian Mark Stegmaier, " The Fugitive Slave Act, the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as a free state, and even the application of the formula of popular sovereignty to the territories were all less important than the least remembered component of the Compromise of 1850 -- the statute by which Texas relinquished its claims to much of New Mexico in return for federal assumption of the debts.

In all, seven fire balloons were turned in to the Army in Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Northern Mexico, Michigan, and even the outskirts of Detroit.

In addition to Virginians, it included regiments from all over the Confederacy, even those as far away as Georgia, Texas and Arkansas.

The 68000 line of processors has been used in a variety of systems, from modern high-end Texas Instruments calculators ( the TI-89, TI-92, and Voyage 200 lines ) to all of the members of the Palm Pilot series that run Palm OS 1. x to 4. x ( OS 5. x is ARM-based ), and even radiation hardened versions in the critical control systems of the Space Shuttle.

The Red grapefruit, starting with the Ruby Red, has even become a symbolic fruit of Texas, where white " inferior " grapefruit were eliminated and only red grapefruit were grown for decades.

" After his 2011 firing, Beebe said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that Oklahoma, Nebraska, and even Texas A & M were interested in " developing their own distribution systems " for their sports programs.

On October 6, the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors, acting upon a unanimous recommendation of the expansion committee, authorized negotiations with Texas Christian University to become a member of the Conference even though TCU had previously agreed to join the Big East Conference in the near-future.

It can also be found in north Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming, even some parts of Arizona.

Democrat Barack Obama won 66 % of the vote and 121, 589 votes even while he lost the entire state of Texas by about 946, 000 votes.

Even though the Texas Department of Transportation started contraflow lane reversal at FM 1488, it did not alleviate the traffic jam deep into the city, as that starting point was even north of The Woodlands, which is close to Conroe, the northern terminus of the greater Houston area.

Stretching as far back as 1923, Sedona ’ s signature red rocks were a fixture in major Hollywood productions — including enduring favorites such as Johnny Guitar, Angel and the Badman, Desert Fury, Blood on the Moon, and 3: 10 to Yuma — but typically were identified to audiences as the terrain of Texas, California, Nevada, and even Canadian border territory.

Shafter was considered a hero in Texas and even had some legendary poetry written about how tough he was.

( It is no longer the world's largest, or even the largest in the country ; " Luecke ", near San Antonio, Texas, is much larger.