Editor’s Note: Lubbock Lights Editor Terry Greenberg wrote this story and others for the Texas Tech Centennial website more than two years ago. Tech has given us permission to reprint selected stories from the site. To see all 100-plus “Impact Stories” go to 100.ttu.edu, and scroll down the home page to 100 Impact Stories, following choices from there. This story was chosen as Texas Tech gets ready to play Arizona State Saturday and travel to Arizona October 5, bringing back memories of Tech’s time in the Border Conference decades ago.