Come Join your Class Agents for Fightin' Texas Aggie Football!

We'll be hanging around the Fun Zone three hours or so before each home game.

Randy will always be in the quad between Dorms 9 & 10 for the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band step off 1.5 hours before kickoff. (This is what happens when you and your spouse become BQ parents, even years after your offspring's graduation from the band)

As you can see, we've changed little from 1967, so come by and say, "Howdy!"

The Story of the fish Stripe

The Original fish Stripe. During the 1930s, a white stripe was added to the the left sleeve, just above the cuff, of freshman uniforms. The stripe was intented so upperclassmen could recognize a fish easily from a distance. This tradition was continued at Texas A&M until 1942, when the Class of '45 was the last class to wear the original "fish Stripe".

Freshman Class Officers, Class of '45, Last Class to Sport the first "fish Stripe" Above Their Left Cuffs

The Second fish Stripe. During the 1950s, with the popularity of the crew cut, the US military adopted shorter haircuts and imposed closely cropped haircuts on their basic recruits, giving them a nearly shaved appearance. The rationale of such a policy was to make the recruits think of themselves more in terms of being members of the military unit instead of individuals, promote personal hygiene, promote a "clean cut" look for the military, and make the recruits easily identifiable whether in or out of uniform. The same held true at Texas A&M, where each class had maximum hair length standards, and especially until 1968, when male popular hair lengths became longer. Seniors were held to the same standard as Army officers, juniors had "gray" sidewalls and hair long enough to part, sophomores had short hair on top with "white" sidewalls, and fish wore a crew cut with white sidewalls, the cut slightly leveled on top. This slight leveling produced a bald spot on the crown of the head, affectionately called the "fish Stripe". With the introduction of the class of '72 in the fall of 1968, the leveling on top was dismissed for the freshman crew cut, producing an even color of hair on top. Thus, the Class of '71 was the last class to wear the "fish Stripe". Later, grooming standards returned to fairly much the same as the 50s and 60s, as hairstyles became shorter. However, the memory of the white tape on the cuff is long gone, and the bald spot on the crown of fish haircuts is now commonly referred to as the "Skunk Stripe".