Books – Shoot-out and Steinmark
Books about the 1969 National Champion football season
Author Bower Yousse
Tom Landry: Longhorn For Life? by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org He was a mythical figure on the NFL sidelines. He was one of pro football’s brightest, an innovator without peer, and frequently described as aloof. Laconic. Cold. An automaton. Perhaps most famously, one of his best players, running back Duane Thomas, in 1970 called him,…
Recently, Tony Jeffery suffered a stroke and a challenging road to recovery through rehabilitation is on the horizon. Unfortunately, Tony does not have insurance, and his rehab bills are estimated to reach $200,000. To support Tony, friends have set up a GoFundMe account with a goal of raising the full amount. As of November 15,…
1944 Texas Brochure compliments of Mark McDonald Mark McDonald In 1944 one of the most colorful characters in Texas signs with Texas. Because of Bobby Layne’s deep respect for Coach Billy Disch and his desire to play for a great college baseball team, Layne signs with Texas. Bobby Layne would become both a Longhorn football…
In the Texas of old and the Lone Star State of novels and Hollywood–“Giant” written by Edna Ferber and then filmed near Marfa with Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean — the cattle were plentiful, the oil was gushing and the townfolk were from, well, small towns. Not cities and metropolitan areas of millions…
MUSICAL ONE-HIT WONDERS: By Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Way, way into adult-hood, I was still the guy among the guys I grew up with, who could ID all the “one-hit wonder” songs and artists through the decades. Yet another of the questionable “skills” I was blessed with. Knowing all the Texas high school football nicknames, from…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ Tom Campbell Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame Recipient Tom Campbell Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame Recipient It has been more than a half-century since Tom Campbell closed his career at Texas with a flourish unmatched in Longhorn lore. The former walk-on intercepted passes that extinguished the last hopes of Arkansas in 1969’s Big Shootout…