Kyle: The Life And Legacy Of The Man Behind Texas A&M’s Football Stadium

It’s a name that’s hard to miss.

Spelled out in eight-foot-tall letters on one of the largest football stadiums in the United States, “KYLE” towers over Texas A&M University and Aggieland.

But the story of the man who gave his name to the home of Texas A&M football begins before the Aggies were called Aggies, and when College Station was just that — a train station near a small cluster of buildings in the middle of nowhere.

In 1896, a young Edwin Jackson Kyle stepped off a train at that station, ... Read more