The Michael Berry Show

109 years ago on this day

The Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

which would become later the Southwest Conference, officially came into existence

when the original eight-member schools agreed on a constitution.

Those eight schools?

The University of Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, A&M, which is now Oklahoma State,

Southwestern and Rice, which was admitted provisionally.

The new conference was the idea of El Thio Belmont, the athletic director at the University of Texas, who saw

the need for the larger colleges of the area to organize to engage in intercollegiate athletics.

It had an 80-year history.

The Southwest Conference provided a lot of fun for me. Growing up that was my conference. In

1996 when the conference was broken up the member schools UT, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor,

TCU, Rice, SMU, and the University of Houston.

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

I was in foot, number nine.

Not only was it authentic frontier gibbering. It expressed a courage little scene in this day and

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