re: Aggie bonfire documentary.... just watched it..

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Duncan Field 1909-1992
Polo Field 1993-1999

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It was moved to Duncan Field at some point in the 50s, I think. I know that it wasn't always there. I remember being told that it was on Simpson Drill Field at some point.

I worked on bonfire my first two years at A&M. Looking back, it was a disaster waiting to happen. I remember being out at cut one morning waiting to be told where to go and the Moses Hall yellow pot was passed out cold in his car. This was the guy who was supposed to make sure that everyone was safe with the axes, and he was still shitfaced from the night before.

I never went to cut drunk, but I rarely went to stack sober. Once push started, on Friday night we would go to parties, load up on everclear punch, go to midnight yell, and then head out to stack.

I think that the off-campus bonfire is fine. I've known some students who worked on it over the years, and it's much more serious (and sober). Bonfire will never be what it was when it was on campus, but watching it burn wasn't really what it was all about if you had worked on it.

When stack fell, I was working in the Administration Building and had a perfect view of the Polo Fields. Here are a few pictures that I took on Thanksgiving Day in 1999.

1999 Bonfire Tragedy