re: Alabama was shut out by Centre College

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On another note, Charley Moran was also the former HC of Texas A&M from 1909-1914 going 38-8-4. He was successful enough against Texas (3-1) that from 1911-1914 they refused to play A&M. They accused him of using ringers and underhanded tactics to win. As the story goes, when the SWC was being formed the AD at Texas who was heading up the creation of the conference gave the ultimatum that if A&M wanted in Moran had to be removed. Faced with the possibility of potentially being frozen out by all the larger schools in the region A&M bit the bullet and let him go. The rivalry was then renewed in 1915.

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Texas left the SIAA because they could not own it to form the SWC. TAMU stayed in for another few years and did pretty well until they let the 40 acres pull them into the SWC where they were relegated to stepchild for the next 100 years or so. Eventually TAMU came to their senses and joined the SEC, but if they had told texas to "kiss off" back then, they would have been a charter SEC school in 1932 and the balance of power in Texas from World War I to the War on Terror would have been much different.

(insert "The more you know" gif here)