Texas upset #6 ranked Aggies. Texas held A & M to a -7 yards rushing. Applewhite led the team with 232 yards in passing. Heisman winner Ricky Williams gained 259 yards to set the NCAA rushing record. Kris Stockton kicked the winning field goal.
Kris Stockton
Randy Braband: Turning The Tide, Melting M&M’s by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Randy Braband’s car had dodged a bullet, so to speak. During a heavy overnight June rain, a hefty limb from a San Saba pecan tree in his front yard had landed in the driveway, just missing the vehicle. I rode shotgun with Jay Arnold…
Foreword by Billy Dale Thanks to a TLSN Facebook subscriber, Marcy Johnson, Donny Eckhardt Jr.’s story is now chronicled in the walk-on section of TLSN. Donny shares some wonderful memories of the Texas and Texas A&M games. But what intrigued me most was that he was a walk-on at Texas. Many may not realize that…
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If You Ask Texas Fans Of A Certain Vintage, Say, Those Born After 1965, Two Nasty, Mean, Vicious Ties Rough Up The Wardrobe And Still Rankle. Both Came Against Oklahoma. 1976- TEXAS VS OKLAHOMA The buildup to the 1976 contest was the strangest ever. Darrell Royal’s Texas teams had won 12 of the first…
The football History of the Texas-TCU series by Professor Larry Carlson with comments by Billy Schott. TEXAS-TCU SERIES: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY One by one, the old Southwest Conference rivalries are dying off. The old SWC died following the 1995 season, with UT as the final champion. The new, expansive Big…
Larry Carlson’s article is sponsored by HornFans.com Larry Carlson talking to his past Longhorn roommate and sportscaster Paul Alexander. Twenty months ago, Texas State’s Professor of journalism contacted me and said he was retiring. However, he still wanted to write original Longhorn football stories primarily from the 1960s-1980s era and place them on the TLSN…
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