Maryland was a founding member of the Southern Conference in 1921, a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1952, and is now a member of the Big Ten Conference. The nickname was coined in 1932 by Dr. Harry C. Curley Byrd, then the school's football coach and later the school's president.
Yes, hide glue is made from boiling hides and connective tissue. Hoof glue from hooves. Fish glue from fish skin and bones.
Yep: that's the stuff that makes Jell-O set and Gummy bears chewy. And it makes damn good glue, too. But it's not that horse glue is actually better than any other animal glue; it's just that historically horses were plentiful, so it made sense to use them. You should definitely read the Slate pirce though â it makes for great reading. [ Slate; Image: Moyan Brenn ].