It ain’t sexy, but the biggest football stadium in Texas got its name because a plant teacher fenced off some of his research land for the athletics program and forked out $650 of his own money to put up grandstands back in 1904-08ish. The University has stuck with the name ever since.
Of course, Edwin Jackson Kyle went on to have a brilliant career, writing one of the most successful Agricultural textbooks of the day and serving as US Ambassador to Guatemala in the immediate aftermath of World War 2. His family also has a town named after them, so that’s nice too.