The famous aggy/Baylor fight is a story that isn't often told in its full context. The aggys had long been known as bumpkins and jerks and were disliked by most of the state of Texas. The week before the Baylor game, they players SMU in Dallas. The aggy cadets in the stands were predictably obnoxious, harassing the women in the stands watching the game. There was a fight in the stands with the SMU fans at that game, also.
With knowledge the aggy fans had harassed the women at the SMU games, the Baylor fans were not in the mood to tolerate the rednecks doing the same. When the first aggy started acting like an ass, the Baylor fans let loose and started beating their asses.
Over time, the ags made up the story of hauling a stolen 3,000 practice howitzer on a flatbed rail car with the intent of committing mass murder on the Baylor campus. Keep in mind the howitzer was ordinarily pulled by a team of horses, but the aggys want people to believe after the cadets broke into the armory and committed a felony by stealing federal property, the kids alone moved the gun miles to the train, lifted it themselves onto the rail car, and managed to transfer the piece to another train (there was no direct rail service between College Station and Waco at the time). All without anyone connected with the railroad asking what a bunch of teenagers were doing with a howitzer.The dumbest part of the howitzer/ train story is that there was no live ammunition ever stored even remotely close to College Station. They had no artillery range. They needed no live ammunition. They practiced using wooden dummpy ammunition, which is what they would have had with them on the train, had it actually happened.
but aggys, being dumber than stumps, actually believe "howitzer on the train" fairy tale.