Top of the Queue Volume VII newsletter #16 8/04/2023
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Jay Ward, a member of the Longhorn Football family, passed away on July 22nd. Jay attended the University of Texas and served as Manager during the 1963 National Championship Team under legendary Coach Darrell K. Royal and renowned athletic trainer Frank Medina. In addition, Jay’s legacy includes a burnt orange family with his two daughters and his sons-in-law attending the University of Texas.
Jay’s Obituary can be found here: https://www.harrellfuneralhomes.com/memorials/jay-ward/5237717/index.php#details .
Save this link 2023 JAY WARD (squarespace.com) and revisit it as more information and testimonials to honor Jay are added. If you would like to add a comment, please send it to Billydale1@gmail.com and it will add to his site. Horns ???? Up Billy Dale
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A Good Ending
Donnie Wigginton was taken by ambulance with 100% blockage in one artery. He said, “I knew immediately I was in trouble.” His quick actions and one stint later, he is fully recovered with no heart damage. Horns ???? up
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Donnie is reading the Wishbone option as the starting quarterback in 1971.
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Marquise Goodwin has blood clots in his lungs and legs and has been sidelined from football practice.
Goodwin is the first collegian to win both the Olympic Trials and the NCAA Outdoors long jump competition in the same year since 1960. He is also the first-ever Longhorn to reach the long-jump final in the Olympics.
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Browns GM Andrew Berry is just happy wide receiver Marquise Goodwin said something because it would have been easy for him not to do so.
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Blood clots were discovered in his lungs and legs .
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There is currently no timetable for Goodwin’s return to the field.
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Professor Larry Carlson has unretired. He has rejoined the journalism department at Texas State University.
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2023 Kirk Bohls, Larry Carlson, and A.P. Steadham .
Steadham produced a documentary titled The Wishbone Boys at Alabama. Coach Royal in 1969 Spring training, taught Bear Bryant the principles of the Wishbone. Alabama national champions followed. Royal also instructed Emory Bellard to teach the Sooners the wishbone and National Championships followed for O.U.
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The Professor rode to the SEC media event in Nashville with Kirk Bohls, his best friend and tennis partner for over 40 years Kirk Bohls. Larry says about Kirk,
Because of his position, he is a lightning rod for criticism from Texas fans.
He still takes abuse from a segment of fans who blame Kirk for Vince Young not winning the 2005 Heisman even though Reggie Bush got 784 votes, and Vince got 79.
You’d think UT fans would stop blaming Kirk for some imaginary “deciding vote” and know that the national championship win was a bigger deal. Even fellow national sports writers kid Kirk about the perception in Austin that Bohls snuffed Vy’s Heisman chances with his vote.
Billy Dale says, “For decades, I believed Kirk’s job was to act as a cheer writer for the Longhorns and not disparage individual Longhorns or share some of the dark undertones of UT athletics.
I still believe he should be an advocate and not an adversary in some of his writings, but I do appreciate his candor more than I used to. After seven years of struggling as an amateur writer to convert thoughts to paper, I understand the challenges Kirk has faced in writing positive football content during the last 12 years.
Regardless of what I or 1,000,000 Longhorn fans think of Kirk, he has earned an iconic status as a national sportswriter media guru extraordinaire. He has won sports awards in most categories over the last 50-plus years.
Don’t believe me, ask Professor Carlson about his trip to the SEC media days in July 2023 with Kirk. Professional sports writers respect his intuitive insight into college football, particularly his knowledge of the Texas Longhorns. Larry says Kirks’s input “was valued by his peers.” He was called to answer questions in media sessions with 300 to 400 media personalities.
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A day-to-day journal of Professor Carlson’s excellent adventure to Nashville to the SEC media event is at the following link: https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/2023-sec-media-days
Larry says, after arriving in Nashville “I thought of Vince Young and Michael Griffin. And of Alan Lowry, the All-Southwest Conference DB, then All-SWC QB (’71-’72) who coached many years with the Titans and is credited as the wizard behind the franchise’s most illustrious play, “The Music City Miracle.”
The Music City Miracle occurred on January 8, 2000, during the National Football League‘s (NFL) 1999–2000 playoffs. After the Bills had taken a 16–15 lead on a field goal in the wild card playoff game with 16 seconds remaining, the music city miracle occurred. On the kickoff return, Titans tight end Frank Wycheck threw a lateral pass across the field to Kevin Dyson, who then ran 75 yards to score the winning touchdown to earn a 22–16 victory.
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My neighbor in Odessa, Texas, was Cotton Price, the quarterback for the 1939 national champions Texas Aggie team. His son, David Price, shown in this photo, was on two Longhorn national championship teams with Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.
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A paraphrased article in Odessa Living Magazine by James McAfee follows:
For 50-plus years David Price has been a top club professional and PGA rules expert. In 1995 he was recognized as the PGA Professional of the Year. In 2010 David was inducted into the PGA America Hall of Fame, and in 2012 he was inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame.
After David graduated from Texas, his golf coach George Hannon convinced him to enter the golfing profession at the Country Club level. His first job in 1973 was assistant at the Houston Country Club. His first lesson as a golf pro convinced him that teaching golf was his destiny. He was the head pro at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio four years later.
In March of 1985, his experience conducting tour events led to a move to Bent Tree Country Club in Dallas. In 1986 David joined the PGA rules committee and was promoted to chairman from 2008-2012. He has worked 30 PGA Championships, 17 Master, 5 Ryder Cups, 3 British Opens, and 5 U.S. Opens.
His worst moments came in 2010 at the PGA Championship when Dustin Johnson grounded his club, and David had to tell Dustin he would not be in the playoffs. David received death threats for that decision.
The second time was when a gust of wind moved Padrig Harrington’s ball on the 15th green, and Padrig was punished for the gust. Six years later, the “wind rule” was changed.
David has been generous in helping his assistants reach the next level in their professional careers. Twenty-one assistants became head golf pros, and one became the woman’s golf coach at UT.
A link to George Hannon’s years as the Longhorn golf coach is below.
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/coach-george-hannon-19641981
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David Price is top row far right.
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The 1914 (NON-NIL) definition of an athlete, with a few updates made by TLSN, is below. How that definition has changed in the last 110 years is breathtaking!
1914
“Athletics have a just place in a university. For the preservation of health for physical development, for the creation of Esprit decor, the development of self-restraint and moral character.
“As soon as athletes fail to serve these ends, athletics is doomed, and there is no ground to justify their cultivation.” “They cannot serve these purposes if teams are made-up of extensions and fine athletes who are induced to enter the university”…….. and who can leave the Longhorns, for whatever reason, through the portal.
“To think that such a student is a bona fide is a mistake and shows a lack of proper athletic standards and appreciation of the real meaning of college athletics. The authorities should determine that our athlete’s lyrics shall be pure and wholesome, and we’ll watch over them more carefully. Still, it finally rests with the student body to hold for themselves a high standard and not tolerate even the slightest suspicion of professionalism.”
“It can be truthfully said that we are remarkably free from actual professional players by students’ outsiders that’s only purpose is to brace up a weak team.” “The cinema favors pure athletics participated solely by representative students.”
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Hoops Trivia
Texas Hoops
1 Who led the ’78 NIT champs in scoring?
2 Name the “BMW” players who formed UT’s “Ultimate Scoring Machine” in 1989-90.
3 Who was the Longhorns’ first blue-chip national recruit, signed in ’79 by Coach Abe Lemons?
4 Name the former Longhorn whose two sons became Major League Baseball teammates?
5 All-time UT shot blocker Chris Mihm starred in what other sport as a teen in Austin?
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