1919 Texas and Texas A & M
The Aggies had not been scored on or lost a game in two years, but on this day the largest crowd in the history of football, at that time, in the state when 20,000 fans saw Texas beat A&M 7-3. Texas finished the season undefeated.
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS Aggies, Re-hashed & Warmed Over. 1974- Texas upsets A & M 32-3. A&M is ranked #9, and Texas is ranked #17. Don’t tell anyone, but Texas’s record against A&M in Memorial Stadium since 1924 was 23-1-1. A&M had three fumbles in the first quarter, and Texas scored points on all of the errors….
Larry Carlson’s article is sponsored by HornFans.com Larry Carlson talking to his past Longhorn roommate and sportscaster Paul Alexander. Twenty months ago, Texas State’s Professor of journalism contacted me and said he was retiring. However, he still wanted to write original Longhorn football stories primarily from the 1960s-1980s era and place them on the TLSN…
CLOSE TO DEADLINE ON UT’S BEST by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org Drove up from San Antonio Saturday morning to my buddy Kirk Bohls’ house and he was ready to hit the road for Fort Worth at 9:00 sharp. On the way, naturally, Longhorn football dominated the discussion. We agreed it was a huge plus to…
If You Ask Texas Fans Of A Certain Vintage, Say, Those Born After 1965, Two Nasty, Mean, Vicious Ties Rough Up The Wardrobe And Still Rankle. Both Came Against Oklahoma. 1976- TEXAS VS OKLAHOMA The buildup to the 1976 contest was the strangest ever. Darrell Royal’s Texas teams had won 12 of the first…
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Thanksgiving afternoon in 1967 was bad enough for All-American linebacker Corby Robertson and his Texas Longhorn teammates. On Texas A&M’s eleventh crack at Darrell Royal, they had eked out a 10-7 win in College Station. With the sweet win would come the Aggies’ first Cotton Bowl since 1942. Texas had lost its final two games to…