In the early ’70s, the Armadillo World Headquarters was the epicenter of Austin’s growing live music scene and a favorite Longhorn hangout. Housed in an abandoned...
The freshman-sophomore rivalry at UT back in the teens and ’20s was no laughing matter. Those boys meant business, and the unusual sport of pushball was how they...
In this picture from the 1966 Cactus, students build a snowman by the Tower after a rare snowfall. Troy Kimmel, UT’s incident meterologist and a senior lecturer,...
For the 120 years that The University of Texas has fielded a football team, fans have entered the stadium with a football program in hand. Today the program is...
Anne Burchart Boucher, left, and Billy Sunday, ’52, posed for this photo at Barton Springs on June 5, 1952. Our city’s favorite pool hasn’t changed much in...
Celebrity alumni, sports stars, iconic campus buildings, mind-bending abstract illustrations—Alcalde covers have run the gamut throughout the past century, and...
It’s not much to look at—just a few silver smudges. If you didn’t know its origins, you might think it belonged in a junkyard. But in fact, this 8-by-10-inch...
Straight spines and ideal physiques led Lavonia Raymond and Ruth Spargo, pictured above, to beat out 18 other finalists in the 1937-38 UT women’s intramural posture...
