While Texas A&M's sports teams and students are Aggies, or Fightin' Texas Aggies as we like to be called, our official mascot is actually an American collie named Reveille.

The Aggies is in reference to the fact that A&M was established as an Agricultural and Mechanical college by the Morril Land Grant of 1862. An Aggie is an ag student, or as we say in some of our yells (not cheers, Aggies don't cheer, we yell), Farmers.

The scary military guy that purpleturtle is refering to is Ol' Sarge. He's not an offical mascot, just an image that is used on Aggie paraphanalia based on A&M's history as an all male military school.



Now, back to Rev. Back in 1929, some cadets had taken a road trip. On their way back to campus, they hit a stray dog with their car. Since A&M also was well known for their veternary school, the cadets put the dog in the car and took it back to the dorms. In the morning, when the bugler blew reveille (the military bugle call to wake up), the dog began barking. The cadets named her Reveille. After she was fixed up, she became the mascot for the school. I believe the first 2 Rev's were mutts, Rev III was the first purebred American Collie.

Some more interesting facts about Rev. She is considered a full-time member of the Corps of Cadets, and each year a sophomore in the Mascot company is charged with taking care of her. The Mascot Corporal as he is known lives with her and takes her to class every day. She is considered the highest ranking member of the Corps. In Old Army days, (how we Aggies refer to the days gone by) if Rev barked in class you were supposed to get a walk that day. Finally, when Rev passes on, she is buried (now inside Kyle Field, it used to be outside before our Zone expansion) facing the scoreboard, so she can always see how her Aggies are doing.

I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Any of y'all Aggie sorority girls on here dated a mascot corporal in case i made any mistakes?

Kitso
KS 361