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Aggies plan to revive bonfire tradition

COLLEGE STATION (AP) - Texas A&M University students and alumni plan to once again build and light a huge bonfire off campus, reviving the traditional blaze once staged before every football game against archrival University of Texas.

The group plans to build a 45-foot-tall log stack near Hearne and light it Nov. 21, three days before the game. The on-campus tradition was canceled after the log stack toppled in 1999, killing 12 people.

But students and alumni have worked to revive the tradition off-campus since.

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