Edwin Bautista knew it was a last-ditch effort, a long shot to save the 91-year-old historic building that the University of Texas wants to bulldoze so it can build a new football practice facility.

UT plans to demolish it to build a football practice facility on the site. UT spokesman Mike Rosen confirmed the site-clearing work has begun and is expected to continue “during the next several ...

“You're going to raze a building down that does have some historical value, for football,” commission board member Lilia Garcia told UT officials then. “I mean, the optics are not good for ...