Conner continues his series on Texas Tech athletics history with the Masked Rider!
For me, a Red Raider football home game does not start with opening kickoff. It starts with the Masked Rider and his/her trusty steed galloping onto the field with the team in tow. The tradition of the Masked Rider is one of the, if not the, most revered tradition in Tech athletics.
While the beginnings of the Masked Rider stretch back as far as the 1936 football season, it was not until the 1954 New Year’s Day Gator Bowl that the Masked Rider exploded on the college football scene.