1914 – A season of records
Statistically the 1914 football team and basketball team still lead in many Longhorn Sports history categories
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In the 1962 Cotton Bowl, the University of Mississippi presented a 51-yard by 90-yard Texas Flag to Texas Governor Daniel and the Texas Band. The band director Vincent Dinino could not spare the bodies needed to run the flag out on the field so he gave it to the U.T. Athletic Department, who then…
Bohls: Texas To Honor Four National Championship Teams With Quarterback Busts Kirk BohlsHookem Kirk Bohls 0:00 0:59 AD Texas to celebrate Duke Carlisle, the late James Street, Eddie Phillips and Vince Young. All four quarterbacks were Texas-bred players who had spectacular signature plays in their careers. Montana sculptor Ken Bjorge also created the Earl Campbell…
The Road to Burnt Orange While all Dorothy had to do was follow the yellow brick road, finding the Longhorn burnt orange road was as elusive as finding a pot of gold somewhere over the rainbow . It has been said that “what starts here (Texas) changes the world.” If that is so, struggling to…
The Longhorn Teapot Saga The Origin of Tea-sips as told by Ray Gonzales The term “tea sip” came from our university cafeteria, a wooden structure, unfortunately, named the “tea house” that was located near the Simkins dorm. I even ate there. The aggies saw it and made fun of the name. That’s where…
Author Emma Schkloven in the title to an article she wrote in October 2022 for the Austin Monthly captures the history of Bevo in 32 words. Bevo’s Long Ride to the Mascot Mountaintop UT’s beloved icon may be living large now, but he’s faced kidnappings, hazings, and even the dinner plate before rising to big…
PROGRESS – Or Lack Of It – REPORT From The Old SWC by Larry Carlson for https:// texaslsn.org It was an ugly breakup, as all breakups are. No love lost. None found. Hurt feelings, hard feelings. Splitsville. It followed the 1995 season. Arkansas had jumped ship four years earlier. But nobody in Texas really cared….