Sham Battles at the Texas Cotton Palace

ID: 1289 ~ Source: Sendón, Mary Kemendo, interviewed by Lois E. Myers, January 27, 1994, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Mary Kemendo Sendón tells about the sham battles that occurred on the Baylor football field.

This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace

By Jim Stingley
When Stephen F. Austin led the first Anglo-American settlers into Texas including areas along the Brazos River, they brought with them their strong agricultural tradition based on cotton-growing. From the period of annexation until well into the…