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Immortal 10 (pulled for maintenance) LbNA #33195 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 19, 2007
Location:
City:Waco
County:McLennan
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Planted by:4Armstrongs
Found by: Gryzzled Gryphon
Last found:Jul 20, 2007
Status:FF
Last edited:Jul 19, 2007
THIS BOX IS ON THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. THE BEST TIME TO GO IS ON THE WEEKEND, IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OR IN BETWEEN SEMESTERS.

On January 22, 1927, coach Ralph Wolf was taking his first Baylor basketball team to play a game at the University of Texas. This was a crucial game in the Bear's race for the 1927 Southwest Conference Championship.
In Round Rock, Texas, just miles from the team's arrival in Austin, one of America's first athletic tragedies occured. A speeding train rammed into the side of the bus at a railway crossing. Eight players, a yearbook writer and a yell leader were killed that day. As a result of the tragedy, the remainder of the 1927 season was cancelled and the first highway overpass in Texas was constructed in Round Rock.
Incoming students are told the Immortal 10 story each year during a homecoming ceremony and it has turned the men who died into an enduring presence on campus. The life-size statues were created by Bruce Greene of Clifton and finished in June 2007.
DIRECTIONS:
From I35 turn E on University Parks Drive.
Turn R on Bagby.
Turn R on 8th.
Turn R on MP Daniel.
Go two blocks and park in the visitors parking lot on the right. From this parking lot look to your East. You should see the back of the monument. Walk over to it. Stand and face it. Look slightly right and find the bright yellow emergency box. Go sit directly in front of it on the concrete barrier. The box is hidden in the back corner of the groundcover. Be discreet re-hide well. People are everywhere!