Arkansas & Texas A&M Go Back To The Future To Renew a Rivalry

Posted by Roger Gowens on September-30-2009 Add Comments

The Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas A&M Aggies first met on the gridiron way back in 1903 when the fledgling Arkansas football program was only nine years into its existence.

The UA team was still known as the Cardinals as this was six years before Hugo Bezdek's "we played like a wild bunch of Razorback Hogs" speech following a landmark victory over LSU in 1909. 

Some Hog fans say there are no "traditional rivalries" for the Hogs in the SEC. Tell that to people in eastern Arkansas or down around LA, Lower Arkansas to some.

Southern Arkansas was once home to Paul "Bear' Bryant, Barry Switzer, former LSU coach Charley McClendon, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Clinton, former U.S. Senator David Pryor, singer Glen Campbe...

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