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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CHEMISTRY LAB HELP is given to David Griffey bychemistry teacher Mr. Robert Lehman. Mr. Lehman was pmt of first graduating class oi the sister school. Travis. in 1953. SYMBOLS during the Travis- l McCallum pep rally and game were centered around images of the Victory Bell. Students had one cheer they could only use at the Travis game which was Beat the Bell Out Of Travis High . ff,g,.:f..':j:.,,4 . . . . . . . . , , . . . 2 -:N ,. hwifw. . .. ti i is ' A X . i if IIB is W P32 my fm K3 Fm. ,- 'Na- iifis infiwus Bell purchased by publications departments center at quarter-centuryjof football K Continued fromg page 232 it belongs. Coach Koechig was assistant football and track coach at H Travis from 1968-1973, when he ,began coaching at McCallum. Miss Norma Barber, the second publications adviser at McCallum, told about one year in the late 1950's when some Mac , ' ' , publications representatives went to Travis to borrow the Bell for a pep rally. They couldn't find the Bell, so they asked around to see if anyone knew where it was. We finally found it in the band hall, but when we brought it out to the jeep that one of our students had broughtjit was surrounded by Travis students. Not only that,.but they had disconnectedsomething under the hood and hooked the winch to two supports in this passageway, Miss Barber explained, The group was a little rushed for time since pep rallies were held first thing in the morning. 'The assistant principal got the students away from the jeep and we got back to McCallum just in time for the end of the pep rally. ln the first few years that the schools were open, rivalry between the north and the south was shown, among other ways,during Beat Mac Week at Travis-and Beat Travis Week at McCallum. Thesewere held during the week preceding the annual game. Beat Mac Week activities in- cluded bonfires, contests for the best-decorated advisories, Color Day and pep rallies. ln order to ' save the football players' strength for the McCallum-Travis game, members of ithe -Travis drill team, the Rebelettes, often volunteered to carry their books. McCallum held Beat Travis Week which included costumes, slogans, streamers, peplrallies Coften spur-of-the-moment, springing up from organized pep ralliesj, bontires and the traditional ulohnny Reb grave . Competition is strong between the schools, but the teams are always friendly regar-' , dless of the outcome of the football game. 1 think the main reason the rivalry came about was because the students were at the same school before Travis and McCallum opened, said Mr. Guy Bizzell, Mac teacher for 25 years. Another link betwen the sister schools are a few members of the McCallum faculty. Mr. W. A. Sloan was principal at Travis from 1953- 1964, before he transferred as principal to McCallum. Mr. Randy Stano did his student teaching at Travis and one of his students was Miss Diane Nelson, social studies teacher at McCallum. After graduating from Travis in 1962, Coach Robert loiner returned to Travis to coach basketball and TV footballtrom 1969-1975, when he came to Mac. Mr. Robert Lehman, Coach Randy 1-litsman, and Coach Earl Clardy are all graduates of Travis High. - . . Even though 1 graduated from 71 Travis, my loyalty is here at Mac. W now, said Coach Clardy, l'd rather beat Travis than anybody. Coach loiner said, 'Theres no loyalty problem with me. It might have been a little difficult the first year I taught at Mac, but no problem after that . mac-travis