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Albert S. Brient Collection
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Albert S. Brient Collection

  • US TxAM-C 282
  • Collection

This collection contains an assortment of newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, and a typed 'saga' of Albert S. Brient.

Included are photographs from the 1923 Texas A&M Varsity Basketball team, biographic information on Brient, correspondence concerning his efforts to be declared a member of the "T" Association 44 years after his college days, as well as newspaper articles both about Brient and about his finally being awarded a "T".

Brient, Albert S.

Brient Materials

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9 Photographs - individuals from the 1923 Texas A&M varsity basketball team.

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7 Photographs - 1923 Texas A&M varsity basketball team, a group of students on campus, Brient with his fellow teammates much older, a photograph of Brient as a young man, and on the day he received his T card.

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Miscellaneous newspaper articles on his basketball accomplishments and career. Mostly opinion pieces about Brient's story and the campaign led by E. King Gill to award him a T card.

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Letters to and from Brient including newspaper companies thanking him for being part of an article, letters to E. King Gill, an affidavit, and friends sending him articles including a couple of letters from Connie Eckards regarding an article in Texas Aggie about Brient and his story.

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Letters to and from Brient. Many from Brient himself, others discussing his life, and a letter he failed to receive.