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rnHISTORIC CLARK FIELD BEING1DISMANTLED AFTER TWENTY0YEARS OF GRIDIRON CLASSICSIBy Beta MarshClark Field, old historic Clark Fieldtt1 that has been the scene of many glo-irious gridiron triumphs, has seen its last Varsity football game. Old ClarkField where for nearly twenty years Longhorn teams have fought andhorns have succumbed on Clark Fieldbut twice, the first occasion being toPhillips University, October 11, 1919,when with the great John Levi intheir lineup, the Haymakers blanked Texas 10-0. The second was the mem-scoredcalled it home is being dismantled, las Aggies Thanksgiving Day ’22 withExcepting for baseball, Clark Field j Bull Johnson in the scintillatingas the home of Varsity teams is nomore.It was back in 1896 that Clark Fieldbecame the Longhorn pen, back in those pre-historic days of college athletics before blanket taxes and athletic directors had come to the finan-role.An old timer on the campus wasasked yesterday the game he thoughtwas the most colorful ever staged on Clark Field. He promptly repliedcial rescue of Varsity teams.Inthat the palm goes to the Longhorn-’Aggie clash of 1920 when Texas aftthose days a high board fence surrounded the playing field and it wasquartersfrom behind in the final period toon its sharp edges that Varsity fansused to perch. There was no grandstand then and the students whogain a thrilling 7-3 vitcory. The oldtimer pointed out that one of the features of the battle was that every man!brought their girls used to sit in carriages, lined up about the greensward.The Athletic Council originally depended on the generosity of the own-on both teams was a star that day.Florida Game LastClark Field witnessed its final gamelast Saturday when the crippled TexasLonghorns, inspired by the deedser for the use of the field, but in Florida eleven to a 7-7 tie. Floridapast gridiron heroes, held the greatpurchaseor vacate. There was no money in j the spirit that Clark Field has alwaysthe treasury at that time and fur- evoked in Texas elevens that carriedFinally eleven pioneer backers of Var-Longhornsbegansity athletics came to the rescue of physical dismantling of Clark Field.indorsedhoused the Texas rooting sectionnote was used to make the first pay- were being torn away, never to be13000, the surii paid for the; replaced. But when Clar kField isfield. Later the note was paid through ; gonebecomesUniversity students pledging their li- present reality instead of somethingft ft. ■ - a J i X .■ AT UdepositsDuring the twenty-eight years onfuture—as it willClark Field, Varsity has played morethan 100 football games at home andNovember U—then■■■■■■■I may Longhorn warriors still be inspired by the spirit and determination that has been im-of this number has lost less than a bued in every inch of soil on the Clark ddeen. In thelast seven years Long- Field greensward.in
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Tue, Nov 04, 1924
Page 3
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