Junction Reunion
Stephanie Cannon '06 August 18, 2014 1:06 PM
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the "Junction Boys," the name coined for the survivors of the brutal training camp at the A&M adjunct campus. The intense heat, harsh field conditions and hard-nosed discipline from coach Paul "Bear"
Bryant caused a massive exodus of players from the team.
Though the Aggies won just one game that season, it set the stage for a return to glory in 1956, when A&M won its first Southwest Conference championship in 15 years.The story inspired Jim Dent's 1999 book The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell With Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team, which ESPN adapted into a 2002 movie. Gene Stallings, one of the Junction Boys and a Bryant protégé, wrote the foreword. The tale that until then was known by few outside the state began to evolve into a legend.
Read about the Junction Boys reunion at theeagle.com.
Though the Aggies won just one game that season, it set the stage for a return to glory in 1956, when A&M won its first Southwest Conference championship in 15 years.The story inspired Jim Dent's 1999 book The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell With Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team, which ESPN adapted into a 2002 movie. Gene Stallings, one of the Junction Boys and a Bryant protégé, wrote the foreword. The tale that until then was known by few outside the state began to evolve into a legend.
Read about the Junction Boys reunion at theeagle.com.
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