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Author, media personality, and professor Larry Carlson recently wrote a detailed and well-researched article for the TLSN website. Larry says, “I decided to journey through my dusty memory files and come up with an all-time Small Town Lone Star Longhorns Lineup. I’m especially striving to focus on the little cities with one high school and fewer than 15,000 residents when possible, but there are allowances. I’m sure I’m forgetting or not listing a few worthy Longhorns, but I’m attempting to go with the players who merited all-conference honors and more.”
“And before I even start, remember that Tyler doesn’t qualify as a small city. Nor do Port Arthur or Odessa, to name a few. And Longview, home of the immortal James Street, posted a population of more than 40,000 when Street graduated from LHS in 1966. That ain’t small when you’re really talkin’ small-town Texas.”
“Players are listed with their final season at UT and their hometown and high school team.”
There are 64 former Longhorn football players mentioned in Larry’s article. Jay Arnold is one of those athletes. Below are the links to Larry’s article and Jay Arnold’s humorous story about Longhorns in small-town Texas.
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/larry-carlson-greatness-fromsmalltowntexas
https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/player-and-fan-memories
I hope former Longhorn student-athletes, managers, trainers, coaches, and fans will share their inside stories on the TLSN website for others to read. Please send your written Longhorn sports memories or photos to williamdale@msn.com, and they will be added to the TLSN website.
It is best to read Larry’s Carlson article on a computer screen instead of a cell phone screen. Lot’s of graphic detail involved in the Smalltown Texas story.
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