Thoughts regarding the Horns ’96 season

[giveemhell]

I’m talking 1896, the first season of Texas baseball, when the team finished a disappointing 1-5-3. We lost 3-5 to the Blind Institute that year, and battled the Deaf School to a 0-0 tie. Here are a few other notable scores:

Manchaca 46-19 (our only win)
Dime Box 32-35
Sixth Ward 3-32
St. Edward’s 12-28

Those must have been some real barn-burners. I’m no expert, but I think we’ve come a long way since that inaugural year.

 

[notanative]

And to think, those teams were all out of conference!!!

 

[billygoat hill]

Who was our coach? He should be fired by Patterson immediately!

 

[accuratehorn]

I hate Dime Box! The umpires robbed us in that game. Very inconsistent strike zone, as I recall.

 

[NBHorn7]

We had the lead on St. Elmo, then in the late innings they caught fire.

There is nothing harder to deal with than "St. Elmo's Fire."
We were lucky to get a draw.

 

[giveemhell]

By the way, does it piss anyone else off that the New York Yankees apparently have eternal scoreboard on us? At least the Chicago White Sox gave us multiple opportunities for payback (nine match-ups between 1918 and 1932, including the infamous “Black Sox” team in 1919). But the Yankees just waltzed through here a couple of times in ’29 and ’30, with Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth (who probably drained a couple of pitchers at the Posse East before the game), and never came back.