Campus photos
The 1959 Longhorn band memorializes the Santa Rita UT owns 2,108,966 acres of Texas land. In the mid-1800s, the legislator thought it was worthless and God-forsaken West TX brush country, and at the time, it was. The New York investors who staked corral Cromwell to drill on it were so skeptical they named the project…
View fullsize 1968- Worster and Royal View fullsize Eric Metcalf Sherri Steinbauer Sherri Steinbauer Chris Gilbert 1939 brochure Bobby Lilljedahl Bryon Townsend Patrick Boden Royal and Appleton 1981 – texas-ou Glen Gaspard and Alan Lowry Chris Simms Courtney Okolo 2016 Bobby Layne Final 4 Chris Simms Patterson and Strong Colt McCoy Mark McDonald & the…
There have been three athletic facilities on the campus named for the university’s influential early leader James Benjamin Clark. Clark Field #1 The first Clark FIELD OPERATED from 1887 through 1927 at the southeast corner of 24th Street and Speedway. In 1898 this location had no name. After the landowners threatened to evict “Varsity” from…
Ragan on his ranch with one of his Longhorns. Choosing the “correct” Longhorn logo and the “correct” color for the Longhorn Nation took 75 years!!! But there is still competition from other Logo designers. In the early 1900s, the University logo is a star, a star with the “T” in the middle, and a star…
Discussing the true coaching pioneers in each sport at Texas was not easy, so suggestions and criticisms are welcome. By definition, sports pioneers are risk-takers, and without their vision, there is no beginning. Visionaries move programs forward by the strength of will and a focus on the future and not the present. Where others have…