Judy Lackey, A Longhorn feat never duplicated, Olympians, and Hank Chapman

Volume V Newsletter #16

TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History and assisting qualifying Horns needing temporary financial assistance. TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletics Department or any organization closely aligned with UT.

Board members include Benny Pace, Spanky Stephens, Beth Coblentz, Jim Kay, and Billy Dale. The TLSN Board includes one manager, one trainer, one volleyball player, and two football players. Basketball, baseball, swimming, rowing, soccer, softball, tennis, and golf are presently not represented on the TLSN Board of Directors but should be.

If interested in joining, please contact Williamdale@msn.com

Longhorn Women Track & Field Olympians

Track forces participants to confront personal character flaws, demons, weaknesses, and insecurities.

Jesse Owens says about mental toughness “The Battles That Count Aren’t the Ones For Gold Medals. The struggles within yourself – The Invisible, Inevitable battles Inside all of Us – That’s Where It Is At.” Patti Sue Plumer agrees, “Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of.

Longhorn Track athletes deal with “invisible, inevitable battles” and a gut check every day. The link below Celebrates Longhorn women track and field Olympians.

https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/longhorn-women-track-olympians

Tommy Lucas informed the Board of Directors of TLSN that Judy Lackey, shown in the Sports Illustrated photo above with her husband Bobby Lackey, has passed away. Gene Powell, a T-Ring recipient and former Chairman of the Board Regents for the UT system shares his memories of Judy at  https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/judy-lackey 

Coach Hank Chapman 1950-1972

1940 Longhorn All-American swimmer Hank Chapman replaced Longhorn legend Coach “Tex” Robertson as the head swim coach for the Texas Longhorns in 1950.

Coach Chapman did a respectable job of maintaining the Longhorn swimming program at a time when swimming was a small budget and low priority sport at UT.

The media tagged Chapman’s swimmers as the Avis of the SWC. They tried hard but always finished 2nd to SMU. Coach Chapman recorded 3 SWC championships and 14 runner-ups. The link to the history of Longhorn swimming under Hank Chapman is at https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/hankchapman

1940 Hank Chapman is first row second from the left and Head coach Tex Robertson is top row far left.

Pete Lammons, George Sauer, John Elliott, and Jim Hudson have accomplished something that no other collection of Longhorn football players have ever achieved. They were both national champions and Super Bowl champions. 

In total, there were 11 Texans on the New York Jets roster in 1969. One concerned New York sportswriter said there are “too many peppers (Texans) in the stew.” Pete Lammons said, “We kept telling the Jets that if they got enough guys from Texas that we’d win, and sure enough, we did.” 

 

Four members from the same university on the same Super Bowl championship team was an NFL record from 1969 through 1993 when the University of Miami and the Dallas Cowboys broke the record.

 Photos below are John Elliot, Jim Hudson, Pete Lammons, and George Sauer. 

The link below celebrates the lives of these four great athletes. Three have passed away, so Pete Lammons represents all four and shares a few of his memories.

https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/longhorns-lammons-sauer-elliot-hudson-and-the-jets

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