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Old 05-29-2011, 12:24 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I'm going to guess it's the oil derrick.
No it is not an oil derrick. As I said it is not a contemporary structure.
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Old 05-29-2011, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Good for you! I haven't checked back into this thread for a day or more - sorry for that. Waldine was never given credit for all the work she did on Coppini's sculptures and she never achieved the level of competence on her own that came naturally to Coppini, it seems. After the death of Coppini (and his wife), Waldine continued to live in the studio / home on Melrose Place in Alamo Hgts (San Antonio) where she was living when she died.



PS Thought I'd toss this into the SCULPTOR pot. Many people don't realize that the sculptor responsible for Mt. Rushmore had a studio in San Antonio - at the same time that Coppini was active there. Gutzon Borglum's studio was still in use as an architect's office / studio when I lived in S.A. in the early 1990s.

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I don't know the answer to this, but my GUESS is the State Capitol, and locations of replicas would likely be county courthouses around the state.
No that is not the correct answer.
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Old 05-29-2011, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Is it the Alamo? If it is, I can name five replicas in Texas alone.
Yes that is correct, where are the five replicas that you know of in Texas? I know of about 20 so this should not be to hard.
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Old 05-29-2011, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Is it the Alamo? If it is, I can name five replicas in Texas alone.
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Yes that is correct, where are the five replicas that you know of in Texas? I know of about 20 so this should not be to hard.
Lothartheterrible has not responded to my DM or the post above. So the first person to name the locations of five Alamo replicas can ask the next question.
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Old 05-29-2011, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Brackettville, Cypress, El Paso, Fredericksburg, Plano.

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What was the first Texas college football team to play in a post-season Bowl Game, who did they play, and what was the score?
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Old 05-29-2011, 08:00 PM
 
Location: Texas
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What was the first Texas college football team to play in a post-season Bowl Game, who did they play, and what was the score?
I apologize for the delay; I was tied up for most of the day. I will take a stab at this one to try for a little redemption.

Being a football coach and history teacher, this one's a bit up my alley. I may be wrong, but the earliest one I can think of is the 1920 Fort Worth Classic in which TCU was defeated by Centre University. I've seen the score listed as 63-7 and 77-7, so I get the sense that nobody is quite sure how badly the Frogs got beat that day.
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Old 05-29-2011, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I apologize for the delay; I was tied up for most of the day. I will take a stab at this one to try for a little redemption.

Being a football coach and history teacher, this one's a bit up my alley. I may be wrong, but the earliest one I can think of is the 1920 Fort Worth Classic in which TCU was defeated by Centre University. I've seen the score listed as 63-7 and 77-7, so I get the sense that nobody is quite sure how badly the Frogs got beat that day.
I believe you are correct, the Fort Worth Bowl was played only once. The answer I was looking for was in the traditional New Years Bowl Games, of the sort that are still played today. Want to take a stab at that one?
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Old 05-30-2011, 06:45 AM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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The answer I was looking for was in the traditional New Years Bowl Games, of the sort that are still played today.
Must be the El Paso Sun Bowl, played for the first time in 1935 but not with a college team. First college teams played in 1936 when Hardin-Simmons played New Mexico State to a tie finish (14 - 14). Along with several other non-Texas bowls, the Sun Bowl was the second bowl game in the USA after the Rose Bowl. In 1940 there were only four national bowl games being played - the Sun Bowl being one of them.
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On October 18, 1934, at a meeting of the El Paso Kiwanis Club, Dr. Brice Schuller suggested that the club sponsor a football game on New Year’s Day matching an El Paso High School All-Star Team against a worthy opponent.
Dr. Schuller was my dad's brother.

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Old 05-30-2011, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Lothar has the best answer so far. The answer I had was 1936, Sugar Bowl. TCU 3, LSU 2. The same day, SMU played Stanford in the Rose Bowl, but at a later hour because of the time zone. The Sun Bowl would have also been later in the day, due to time zone.

I'm declaring Lothar the winner---go ahead with your question.

The 1920 Fort Worth game was a good example of 'be careful what you wish for'. It looks like the Forth Worth town fathers wanted to show off their 8-0 football team, so hastily assembled a showcase, which turned out to be so humiliating, they stopped keeping score, and never tried it again.

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Old 05-30-2011, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Abu Al-Qurq
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No it is not an oil derrick. As I said it is not a contemporary structure.
Oil derricks are hardly contemporary; I haven't seen one that wasn't decorative or ornamental built in at least the last 20 years (that look anything like the four-sided tower structure, anyway).

Maybe it's possible the correct answer has changed.
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