Volume VIII Newsletter #11 05-12-2023
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Important: Click on the small black letters “VIEW IN BROWSER” above to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone.
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Much more content has been added to Lance Blanks’s celebration of life TLSN webpage, including his daughter, Riley Blanks, sharing her special memories of her dad.
2023 LANCE BLANKS BASKETBALL (squarespace.com)
Many of you may not know, but at the bottom of each TLSN website page is a detailed alphabetical list celebrating former Horns who have passed away since 2017. Each Horn has left a unique imprint on our great University and should be remembered as a Longhorn brand builder.
The Footer at the end of each page is orange and looks like the image below.
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SEARCH THE SITE BY NAME:
The Footer at the end of each TLSN website page has the links to celebrate Horns Who Have Passed Away and a sentry watch page discussing former Longhorns with health issues.
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Bobby Wuensch by Norman Snyder
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A note From Norman Snyder- “My friend, Bobby Wuensch, was inducted into the Texas High School Hall of Fame this weekend. What a fitting honor for a great man and football player. Bobby was recognized as one of the best offensive linemen in college football when he played at UT. I met Bobby through Bill Atessis, whose wife, Kelli, worked for me as a paralegal for several years.
Unfortunately, Bobby was unable to attend the ceremony as he is suffering from a form of premature dementia. What Bill said about Bobby in this article is so very true – you would not want to meet a person who was more gentle and kind than Bobby unless you got him on a football field.
The link to Bobby’s induction article is at:
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TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME!!
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Larry Carlson interviews Longhorn Baseball player Tom Ball.
Tom Ball was the last batter at Clark Field. He says, “I was up when Bobby Clark scored on a passed ball to end the game. We never lost to the Aggies. We always expected to win!
In 1974 Tom was selected as a member of the All-Tournament Team at the College World Series.
Links to Tom’s introduction by Professor Larry Carlson and Tom’s interview are listed below.
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Coach Gus, Tom Ball, and Jim Gideon
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Writer James Clear says, “Winners And Losers Typically Have The Same Goals But Obviously Different Outcomes. Goals Are Good, But Without A System Of Practiced Habits In Place, Goals Alone Will Not Lead To Success. It’s Not The Goals That Determine Success; Systems Do.
“You Will Not Rise To The Level Of Your Goals. You Will Fall To The Level Of Your Systems.”
Coach Petrrucelli was a master of using systems to reach goals.
2001- 14-6 – COACH CHRIS PETRUCELLI
Coach Petrucelli is honored as Big 12 Coach of the Year.
U.T. signed seven acclaimed soccer players landing the country’s #3 recruiting class and leading the nation in home attendance (1,924).
Texas secured its first-ever Big 12 Conference Championship, winning 11 games in a row.
Texas, ranked #7 nationally, made its first appearance in the NCAA soccer tournament.
Lara Kram made the first-team All-Big 12 team and was the MVP on defense in the tournament. Lerrin Biggers’s defensive play gets her selected to Soccer America’s team of the week.
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The Drug Connection
The Longhorn Student, Health Care Center, dispensed prescription drugs for the UT Athletic Department in the 1960s and 1970s
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Bennett Brook was part of the distribution system and shared his story with TLSN.
Bennett tells Billy Dale, “I enjoy reading about the history of Longhorn sports on TLSN, especially since my dad was at UT in 1940, and after serving as a Navy pilot in WWII, I remember him talking about some of the games and players. “Dad was a big football fan.”
You might be interested in the photos below. The first is us old pharmacists who were at the Student Health Center. Then, in October 2021, we all got together for the first time in a long time at Sherlyn Adcock’s Ranch to share fellowship.
The photo below is Diane Doersam, George Svihla, and Nancy Clark in the front row. Sherlyn Adcock, Glenda Blatzer, and Bennett Brooke are in the back row.
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All graduated from the school of pharmacy at Texas. George was in charge of ordering all the medicines for the UT Athletic Department.
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This photo is of Billy Wylie, Pharmacy director of the Health Center, and Bennett Brook.
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Billy Wylie graduated from the UT College of Pharmacy in the early 1950s and was one of our professors in the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Paul Tricket, no photo, and Billy Wylie provided Spanky Stephens with the athletic medicines and supplies.
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Frank Medina and Spanky Stephens
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Professor Carlson shares his thoughts about the 2023 Spring game and his vision for the 2023 football season.
This month, a story in The “Athletic” punctuated UT’s failure to develop talent.
The publication took raw data from eleven years of recruiting and the NFL draft.
Among programs studied, those with highly enough recruited signees, Texas finished dead last.
Only four of the Horns’ 17 five-star guys were even drafted, and just 17 of 46 four-star players were selected by NFL teams. The participating writers for The Athletic summed it up this way: “That’s the epitome of doing less with more,” Then they dropped the mic by noting that, going into this spring’s NFL draft — with Bijan Robinson selected eighth by Atlanta — the most recent offensive player for the Horns to get picked as a first rounder was Vince Young, 17 years ago. Ouch.
Time for the Longhorns to live up to the name on their jerseys and win big in ’23.
No excuses.
For the remainder of Professor Carlson’s look at the 2023 season, click on
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The Professor with Pat Culpepper
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Wayne Wheat, a teammate at Permian and a competitor when he played for Texas A&M, sent me parts of the 1949 Baylor-Texas program. Wayne says, “Billy, this is the program for the Baylor Texas game 1949. I didn’t send it all – left out some cigarette ads.”
The program highlights Longhorn Captains Paul Campbell and Danny Wolfe.
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The story of the Wolfe family and the Wolfe Nursery is located in the Longhorn fan celebration section of Longhorn football players at :
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Preparing for the 1949 Georgia bowl game
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Texas did not expect an invite from a major bowl this year. With a record of 6-3-1, the Longhorns figured their season was over, so all the players made other plans for the Christmas Holidays.
But thanks to Georgian Coach Butts, the Orange bowl committe, and the Bulldogs, Texas did get a bowl bid.
Team captain Dick Harris, a four-time consensus All-SWC lineman, was charged with phoning some of his teammates to gauge their interest in playing in the Orange Bowl against Georgia. With a few enticements from the Longhorn Athletic Department, the Horns played the game.
Harris says, “You could feel at our first practice that everybody was ready to retrieve a little bit of the dignity the Aggies had taken away from us.” Still, with Paul Campbell at quarterback, the Longhorns only averaged 19 points per game this year, and the team was a big underdog against Georgia.
The story of what enticed the players to play in the Orange Bowl has never been equaled in college or Longhorn Sports History. The answer is found in the 1948 football section at 1947-1950 COACH CHERRY ???? (squarespace.com)
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TLSN is a 501 (c)(3) Longhorn Sports history educational website with a compassionate component.
Fortunately, most, but not all, former Longhorn student-athletes and support staff personnel have successfully transitioned to the job market with health insurance and loss of income safety nets.
Still, help is needed for some, and TLSN donors have opened hearts and wallets to extend a helping hand. Those who qualify for assistance have received grants from TLSN varying from $2000 to $25,000.
The TLSN website and newsletter are free, delivering educational, historical, and insightful Longhorn sports history as told through the eyes of those who created it.
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TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletics Department or any organization closely aligned with UT.
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