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Sip is a tea sipper. Years ago the wealthy Texans who could not either afford SMU or could not get into SMU sent their kids to Austin. Texas A&M was 99% all male, all military. The sissy boys went to Texas University (That was its official name back then.) Majors were either farming or engineering.

Poor people could go to college and have their education paid for by the military.

They had a relationship with Texas Women's University and both schools had regular functions together. There were a lot of marriages between TWU and Texas A&M.

The Texas University people acted like they were rich and thus sipped tea. aka acted like they were rich as SMU people.

One of the funniest signs I saw in the stands at a Texas University/SMU game back in the old SWC days. In the SMU study body side that had a huge sign the said "Our maids went to Texas. " Thus explains the Texas University inferiority feelings.

In those days under Darrell Royal, (and no limit on scholarships). Royal offered just about anyone who played Texas high school football a football scholarship.

Your choice of a state school was to take the Royal scholarship or go to A&M where you had to be in the Corp of Cadets.

In the early 60's women were admitted and today Texas A&M is the largest university in the state.

Thanks for asking

Y'all really do live your own worlds, don't you

I love how in y'all's minds Darrell Royal was this vilified cheater that "gave a scholarship to every player that played high school football in Texas". First, I think my dad would remember being offered a scholarship in '72 rather than walking on the team to be Earl Campbell's tackle dummy, but I'm sure you remember more about his time there than him from reading Texags.

Also, only Texas offered lots of scholarships too, right? No other school in the country did that?

But Aggies never lie, cheat or steal.

I mean SURELY they would never break the rules

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The sissy boys went to Texas University (That was its official name back then.)

Aside from a couple of 1960s football programs that say "Texas U.", I don't think anyone referred to it as that other than Aggies due to inferiority complex. Which, I would have too if my school were intended to be a subservient branch of The University of Texas