re: Thanks to SEC and Heisman - A&M receives record 37,000 applications

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If you want to be technical about the first written piece of legislature establishing our two schools, and fitting a rigid definition to an ambigious act, technically the Morril Act of 1862 funds set aside for Texas A&M came before the Texas Constitution of 1876.

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Not quite.

In 1838/1839 (the Republic of Texas) and in 1858 (the Texas state legislature) adopted legislation describing "The University of Texas."

Federal funding is the difference in the creation dates of UT and Texas A&M, namely the Morrill Act(s). The state of Texas didn't have enough money to adequately fund its envisioned state university, but the feds came along and gave the state a chunk of land in Colorado, and the proceeds were used to start A&M.

That in no form or fashion bestowed upon A&M "the" state university status. If anything, A&M was originally moreso a federal institution.

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But in reality we both know that much like every other state with a land grant school, the schools were separate and different

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I can think of one land-grant school that is part of a "University of" system -- North Carolina State (land grant) is part of the University of North Carolina System, and has the same board of governors.

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