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TCU Tradition of Hard Work Lives On in Josh Hoover
In the age of NIL money and side ventures, Josh Hoover’s ranching enterprise connects today’s athletes to TCU’s hard-working past.
John Henry
Recent research led me to stumbling over an old newspaper story about TCU students and the jobs they took to make ends meet.
For example, during the fall semester of 1911, M. Jackson Farmer of Colorado, Texas, served as a baker, making all the bread consumed by every student in the dorms at TCU. It was good stuff, too, apparently.
“How did I break into the baking game?” he said to a reporter. “The most natural thing in the world. There are five of us boys and four of us are bakers — like our father. I am a kind of jack-of-all-trades, too, and in extra jobs outside and in the college, I have made more than $50 since the term began above my salary as a baker.”
Red Morton, a baseball pitcher, was a barber.
And then there was Milton Daniel, a football player. You know the name. Daniel is the namesake of Milton Daniel Hall and the Daniel-Meyer Athletics Complex. But before he graduated to banking and oil, he was moving pianos and furniture and picking up other odd jobs around campus “with the same energy he displays on the gridiron.”
Read the rest at https://fwtx.com/news/tcu-tradition-of-hard-work-lives-on-in-josh-hoover/
