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The University of Texas football team briefly stopped in Fort Worth, Texas en route to the Rockies for their opening game against the University of Colorado. Pictured on their train, left to right, are Malcolm Kutner and Chal Daniel. Both players have the potential to be all-conference. Kutner, an end, is reading a magazine….
DKR – Texas Monthly 1982 Why He Quit
December 1982 Issue Texas Monthly by Jan Reid Images added by Billy Dale Coach Royal Regrets Why he won. Why he quit. Why he doesn’t miss it? Raising a great cloud of caliche dust, Darrell Royal zoomed away from the lake house in his van. He explained his haste as a measure of consideration for…
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Writing Songs about Longhorn Sports and the University of Texas was very popular in the early 1900’s under Coach Metzenthin influence .
You might wonder why this story matters in the history of Longhorn Sports, but read to the end and you’ll see why it’s a key moment in Longhorn history. Metzenthin is remembered as the head football coach for Texas in 1907 and 1908, posting a solid 11-5-1 record. But from 1910 through the 1930s, he…
The History of the Longhorn-Texas A&M tradition – with comments from Larry Carlson
Texas played the Dallas Athletic Club on Thanksgiving Day in 1896 and 1898. There were also other Thanksgiving games in the 1890s, including matches against Arkansas and LSU. The first game between the Longhorns and the Aggies took place in 1900. This matchup became a well-known Thanksgiving tradition, disrupted only when Texas refused to play…
A loss made worse by shade
1952 – Notre Dame states that during the game they do not want to sit on the East Side (sun side) so Texas agrees to allow Notre Dame to share the West Side (shade side) with the Longhorns . Look at the picture and see which team got the shade and which team got the…
