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MAJOR COMEBACK HOLIDAY BOWL 2001 By Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org Major wearing the Golden Hat after beating O.U. He had every reason to hit the portal. But he didn’t. It didn’t exist yet. For that, Longhorn fans who watched the ’01 Holiday Bowl can rejoice, even long after the fact. Major Applewhite still had it…
THE TALL TALE OF DEAN CAMPBELL by Larry Carlson
Campbell, an Austin guy through and through, had worked as a teen at the iconic Dirty Martin’s Kum-bak Place on The Drag. He sliced tomatoes and peeled onions in exchange for burgers and fries. https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ It sounds straight out of Mayberry, RFD. A young Dean Campbell recalls playing some good ‘ol neighborhood football in his…
Quarterback Arch Manning Joins the exclusive 10 wins in a season Longhorn club. By Professor Larry Carlson
ARCH, HORNS ROLL FOR TEN IN 2025 Arch Manning, with his Texas team’s slick 41-27 thumping of Michigan in the 2025 Citrus Bowl, joined a rather august herd of Longhorn quarterbacks in the history book.It’s the list of UT signal-callers who have bossed a team to double-digit wins as a starter. Manning did it in…
THE MARFA GIANT BY LARRY CARLSON and OTHER BIG HUMAN LONGHORN FOOTBALL PLAYERS
UT’S King-Sized Robert Guevara By Larry Carlson When Robert Guevara signed a letter of intent to play football with the national champion Texas Longhorns in early 1970, he was the biggest thing to come out of Marfa, Texas since Liz Taylor. When Taylor completed work on “Giant,” in 1955 and left the tiny town…
