Early in the morning of November 18th the Aggie family experience the worst tragedy to ever occur on the campus of Texas A&M. At 2:42 AM, as dozens of Aggies scurried about the stack, the entire structure came tumbling down. Of the 58 students that were working on the grounds at that time, 27 of them were injured and 12 of them were killed.
Bonfire burned for the first time in 1907 as a symbol of the Aggies “burning desire” to beat the hell outta the University of Texas on the football field. It burned every year before the Aggies played Texas until 1963.