1983 Texas A & M
1983 Texas 45- A&M 13
Rick McIvor brought the team back from a 13 -0 deficit with four touchdown passes tying a school mark. In 15 minutes Texas scored 45 points. Billy Boy Bryant also threw for a touchdown.
Noble Doss caught an impossible catch to score the only points of the game. The victory kept A & M from a repeat national championship and snapped their 19-game winning streak which prevented the Aggies from returning to the Rose Bowl. The impossible catch
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1919 Texas and Texas A & M The Aggies had not been scored on or lost a game in two years, but on this day the largest crowd in the history of football, at that time, in the state when 20,000 fans saw Texas beat A&M 7-3. Texas finished the season undefeated.
Preface to Larry Carlson’s article on the pending Kansas State game. Coach Snyder’s Kansas State football teams were composed of 2 or 3-star athletes who beat favored 5-star blue-chip teams with intangibles and a driven spirit not measurable by computer recruiting analytical tools. Like Royal, Coach Snyder gravitated to recruits with dreams of greatness, aggressive…
THE WISHBONE & THE TURKEYS Longhorns vs Aggies, 1968-70 by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Ten months before the wishbone offense of Darrell Royal and Emory Bellard got its first of what would ultimately become 30 consecutive victories, UT’s football leaders had tough questions and challenges. The “1967: Year of the ‘Horns” bumper stickers…
“Money CAN’T BUY ME LOVE” or a winning team Horns, Ags Jockey For SEC Position by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Like their big brother rivals, the Aggies are weary of winning big in recruiting but never seeing it translate into actually winning big. The programs from Austin and College Station are prototypes for “Money can’t…