McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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SURVIVAL THROUGH 25 YEARS. both McCallum and Travis are celebrating their silver anniversaries. Both schools have a tradition while playing football of fighting tor the Victory Bell which was purchased hy both publications departments in 1953. .fr .. .5 ax-Wi' , we . ,, he ef v r-v YEARBOOK C0-EDITOR AT Travis in 1971. Miss Diane Nelson is presently one of the social studies teachers at McCallum. During her senior year at Travis she was co-editor of the Rebel NAMED after long time MSD Superintendent Arthur N. McCallum. it is the oldest senior high building in Austin which has not undergone extensive expansion. McCallum originally housed Lamar Iunior High in its first three years. i x L E T ' in rw ' 1 I 1 '4 4 ., if .5 A gg, , 5 I , . xl if Q ' ,, 5 l s .xr , Lf. 1 ., . al i if . A i, , Roundup. More Beautiful in the Beauty Revue. active in the band. received a National Merit Scholarship Letter ot Commendation and was a Who's Who recipient. lllllllfli ll'lItlllll0llSi Sister schools date back to split up of Austin High as 'the only one' ustin High was split in 1953 and two new schools were formed, McCallum and Travis, making the total number of Austin high schools four. McCallum opened in the fall of l953 with an enrollment of 1,32 l. Until 1957 McCallum housed junior high students, as well as high school students. Travis opened that same year with 899 students in grades lO-12. These two new schools relieved overcrowding at Austin High, and began what is presently a quarter century of friendly rivalry between the sister schools. We had a real lively publications group, said Mr. Leedell Horton, original publications adviser at McCallum, 'That first year they decided they wanted to exchange something with Travis as a symbol of good sportsmanship, so that's how the idea of the Victory Bell came about. We got word that Southern Pacific Railroad in Houston had a bell, so we made arrangements to go. The bell originally cost S60 and weighed 40 tons. Each school paid 530 and it was carried to the football game on a dolly the first year. We had some of the cast iron cut off and it has been nickel-plated since then but nas always been even, Mr. the cost Horton said. The bell will remain under the direction of publications advisers and editors. Each year, the Knights and the Rebels meet in the traditional battle on the football field for the Victory Bell. The winning team earns the right to keep the Bell until the teams meet again, After 25 consecutive games, the Knights have won l2 and the Rebels have won 13, the last of which occurred during the 1977 football season, On October 18, 1957, the publications departments at both schools wrote and signed an agreement which stated rules regarding the Bell and included provisions in case of a tie. lf a tie should occur, each team will receive one point for each penetration of its opponents 20- yard line. If this should fail to determine a winner, the team that has made the most number of first downs will gain possession of the Bell. Should the teams still be tied, the winner will be chosen from the net yardage gained from scrim- mage. As a last resort for finding a winner, a coin will be tossed, with opposing coaches calling the flip. Tradition has it that the Bell should not be rung after midnight on the day of the annual battle, until the next year when the Bell is won. lt is believed that doing so would bring bad luck to the ringer. Following the victory, the winning team and coaches get the first chance at ringing the Bell. 'The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of the Victory Bell is that it hasn't been at Mac in a long time, stated Coach Kenneth Koechig. The Bell has been at Travis since 1973 when the Rebels beat the Knights by a score of 13-O. Reflecting back, the ball games are always close. We've come up on the short end, but we think we-'re going to change that and get the Bell back here at McCallum where I Continued on page 252 mac-travis

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