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by Larry Carlson August 2022 Larry Carlson, Rodney Tate, and Lance Taylor https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ It has been fifty autumns since the Texas Longhorns capped the longest era of dominance in Southwest Conference annals. Coach Darrell Royal’s teams — featuring the wishbone offense and swarming defenses — won six straight SWC trophies, 1968-1973. The incomparable soul singer,…
I MISS TIE GAMES by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu ) Paul “Bear” Bryant offered up long, long ago his disdainful judgment of any football game ending in a tie. “A tie is like kissing your sister,” the Bear said, of his lack of ardor for sixty minutes of football combat that decided nothing. Bryant’s opinion…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ 1974 Tom Ball photo at last game ever played at Clark Field by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) With a name like Tom Ball, you just had to be born to stand out as a sports star. And the Houstonian did that, shining boldly in football, baseball and basketball at Lamar High in the…
Don’t be confused about how well they did on the field; these aren’t the best teams, just the best rosters. #5. 1995 This team was loaded!! Tony Brackens, Taje Allen, Bryant Westbrook, Chris Carter, and Chris Atkins were some of the defensive players. Ricky Williams was a freshman. Priest Holmes and Shon Mitchell were…
Jerrel Bolton played tight end for the Longhorns in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and he is the only Granbury High School graduate to win a letter playing football for the Horns. The photos below are Granbury High School’s 1966 Class 2A state finalist football team. Future Texas Longhorn Jerrel Bolton is the fourth…
Michael Brown has passed away, Brown, a versatile player who was tried at several skill positions during his career in the early ’80s at Texas, was well-liked by teammates and had been assisted my them in recent years. He came to the Forty Acres as part of Fred Akers’ 1980 signing class out of Lake…