Biography boone powell jr

IT HAD BEEN 70 YEARS SINCE THE NOTORIOUS HOMECOMING of 1926, when visiting Texas A&M Aggies rushed onto the football field, jostled several Baylor University coeds participating in homecoming festivities and sparked a fight that resulted in the death of an A&M student and an Aggie refusal to play in Waco that lasted four years.

During Homecoming Week 1996, the visitor to the Waco campus was a graying executive and fellow Baptist from Dallas-Boone Powell Jr., chief executive officer of Baylor Health Care System.

The furor his proposal inadvertently unleashed ted to no deaths-just a standoff between Dallas and the Baylor board that lasted four months and peaked with talk of lawsuits, threatened intervention by the Texas Attorney General and an onslaught of angry letters and faxes between Dallas and Waco.

The folks from Waco learned that Dallas can be an even tougher foe than College Station. The lesson cost them $1 billion.

When Boone Powell Jr.