Elephant Walk

Elephant Walk marks the end of the usefulness of the Aggie seniors to the student body. Like dying elephants, which wander the jungle looking for a place to die after their value to the herd is over, seniors will join hands and wander aimlessly about campus visiting landmarks for the symbolic "last time."

Seniors meet for a yell practice and presentations. Afterward senior yell leaders will lead the group through campus.

This Aggie tradition is known to underclassmen as "E-Walk" since it is bad for underclassmen to say the word elephant as it is classified as a "senior word."

It all started in 1922. Two Aggie Band Fish from the Class of 1926 wandered out of Kyle Field after the football team was outscored the second time in the first two weeks of the season. They began to play a mournful funeral march. The goal of the march was to break the "jinx" that haunted Aggie football at the time. One by one, others joined the march, creating a long, serpent-like column that wandered throughout the campus. For the rest of the season, the fish continued their walk regardless of whether or not the football team was outscored. After their freshman year, the Class of 1926 discontinued their marches throughout campus.

During their senior year, the Class of 1926 decided to give one last Walk to show their spirit for the A&M College of Texas. The other three classes on campus at the time had never seen the ceremony. Led by the same two "Fish", the seniors rested one hand on the shoulder of the Aggie in front of them and walked around campus as they did when they were freshmen, only this time they were wearing their senior boots. The seniors cried as they walked through the campus, remembering good times and bad, buddies for life, and those that had fallen along the way. The Class of 1926 "died" much in the same fashion as elephants do in the wild. Thus, the solemn tradition of Elephant Walk was born.