The Texas athletic program is recognized as the best in the country. In the 14 years of presenting this honor, It is the only other university to receive this award besides USC and UCLA.
The women’s swim defends two national championships.
The basketball team defeats USC for the national championship.
The track team wins the NCAA outdoor national championship .
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…
There have been three athletic facilities on the campus named for the university’s influential early leader James Benjamin Clark. Clark Field #1 The first Clark FIELD OPERATED from 1887 through 1927 at the southeast corner of 24th Street and Speedway. In 1898 this location had no name. After the landowners threatened to evict “Varsity” from…
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…
Click on the Text denoted in red font on the side bar to visit other sites in this grid U. T. building in 1898’s John Dealy Hospital College Building St. Mary’s Infirmary The Campus UTNews The University of Texas at Austin My All American Campus — UT in 1969 By Chad Schneider | Oct. 15,…
In 2021 UT’s Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium was recognized by the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security as a facility of merit for demonstrating an innovative approach to safety and security.