Top of the Que Volume VI Newsletter # 17 – 07/06/2021
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2000 football season- record 9-3
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2000 represents the 3rd year in a row that the Longhorns won nine or more games. It is the first time since Coach Akers teams from 1981-1983 accomplished this goal.
2000 pits Applewhite, the Rocket scientist, against Simms, the flame thrower. The player consensus is that Major is the thinker, and Chris is the athlete.
The two quarterbacks set all kinds of passing records. As a result, the fans dub Horn football as “basketball on grass.”
The 2000 team and the 1942 team hold the Texas season record for most forced punts (96)
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Leonard Davis entered the Hall of Honor in 2016
Leonard Davis was a member of the 2000 team and is a consensus first-team All-American and finalist for the Outland Trophy and a semifinalist for the Lombardi Trophy.
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In 2000 Hodges Mitchell set the single-game record for most rushing attempts (45) against Texas Tech and most all-purpose yards (375) against Kansas.
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Mack says one of his saddest moments in coaching occurred when Hodges suffered a very serious knee injury in the Holiday Bowl. Mack said “ While team members contributed skill, brawn, and brains of the team. Hodges was always the heart.”
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This is a re-visit of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech about sports fan cynics who impugn those who dare greatly.
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On April 23rd, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt in Paris railed against cynics who looked down on men trying to make the world a better place. He said, “The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.” “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities—all these are marks, not of superiority but of weakness.”
Then Roosevelt delivered an inspirational and impassioned message that drew huge applause. He used sports as an example to make his point; Theodore Roosevelt delivers a message to those who harshly judge athletes who enter the arena and dare greatly.
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The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.”
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds: who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Social media exposes the déclassé sports fans.
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The Men/Women in the Arena
Some Longhorn fans know just enough about sports to make themselves dangerous to the Longhorn Nation and the recruiting process.
Their primal passions suppress all logic and common sense. They are cynics and scorners. Morphing into dark souls typing posts that are mean-spirited hindsight-driven tirades. Their words, in a worst-case scenario, are predatory, and in a best-case juvenile.
Unfortunately, all internet post-receive equal billing extending power and influence to those who don’t deserve it. The Internet cannot discern the difference between those who offer intelligent and constructive criticism from those who convey non-productive and predatory rebukes.
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.”
“The credit belongs to the man who strives valiantly;”
Photo 1985- Royce Deppe
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“ who errs, who comes short because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.”
Photo 1985 Sandy Blakeslee dared greatly!
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Jim Bertelsen was a warrior in the Longhorn football arena whose face was marred by dust, sweat, and blood. RIP Jim!
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Jim with President Johnson
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On June 26th, 2021, many members of the 1969 and 1970 National Champion Longhorn football teams celebrated the life of All SWC, All-American, and Pro bowler Jim Bertelsen. Jim was a key reason that the Horns produced one of the longest winning streaks in college football history.
The Photo Below
We are all officially old, but we share a natural smile inspired by youthful hearts and mutual respect earned by character-building moments. Horns ???? – Billy Dale
Jim is with his team one last time as a father in the photo below top right.
Bottom row Donnie Wigginton, Billy Dale, Forest Wiegand, Randy Stout, standing is Jerrell Bolton.
Second-row- Rick Troberman, Paul Kristynik, Tom Campbell, Robert Paine, David Ballew,
Third row-Randy Peschel, Scott Palmer, Tommy Asaff, Jeff Zapalac, Mike Dean,
Fourth row: Tommy Woodard, Ronnie Tyler, David Richardson, Back row: Tommy Lee, Bob McKay, Rick Nabors, and others not identifiable from this photo.
Horns ???? – Billy Dale
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These men dared greatly in the football arena 30-0
The link to the 30 game win streak is :
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/football-dkr-1968-1970-30game-win-streak
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Photos of a few who celebrated Jim’s life on June 26th 2021.
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Amateur Longhorn sports historian Billy Dale, Andy Bertelsen (Jim’s son), and New York Jet Scott Palmer
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Tom Campbell (Hall of Honor and Cotton Bowl inductee and Mr. MVP is with Mack Mckinley the owner of the Common Interest, and Randy Stout -a man with a great and loving heart that I am proud to call a special friend.
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Successful Horns who have made this world a better place- Mack McKinney, Rick Troberman, and Tom Lee
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In 1971 Donnie Wigginton was the MVP of the SWC tying a Longhorn record for number of touchdowns
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Without Rick Nabors great play as a defensive back replacing injured Freddie Steinmark in the Big Shoot-out and against Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl , there would be no Longhorn national championship.
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In this photo is Paul Kristynik , and Doctor Mike Dean.
The Kristynik family is deep rooted in Longhorn sports history with both Paul’s brothers, David and Marvin, leading the Horns in the mid-60’s. David Kristynik is an inductee into the Hall of Honor
Mike Dean is both an inductee into the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame and Longhorn Hall of Honor.
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Jim Bertelsen’s children Andy and Katie
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The way we were in 1969, the Wishbone offense before the Cotton Bowl game against Notre Dame
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Bottom row: Peschel, McKay, Dean, Wiegand, Mitchell, Wuensch, Speyer, Top Row: Dale, Koy, Street, Worster, Bertelsen
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