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Gary Plock Tennis 1978
Sponsored by MBFC. Contact John Carsey at jcarsey@mbfc.com Gary’s Oral history segment is at the link below https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/gary-plock-tennis Gary Plock As a Junior Tennis player Gary won the 1974 Sugar Bowl International Championships in New Orleans, was selected as a member of the US Junior Davis Cup three times, and was the US Junior Southern…
Calvin Murray – 1990-1992
Calvin’s oral history is at the link https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/calviin-murray-19901992 Note: to the left, in red font, are all the podcast sections. Calvin Murray’s oral History segment on TLSN is sponsored by Pat Frost @ Frost National Bank. More sponsors are needed to continue capturing the stories of those who created Longhorn sports history. As of this…
Donna Lopiano
In the book Bleeding Orange by Kirk Bohls and John Maher, there is a quote from Journalist Robert Heard. He says, “The first thing I would do is fire DeLoss Dodds and put Donna Lopiano in there, and she’d take it. She is not from Texas, and neither is DKR, but at least they bleed…
Betsy Mitchell – swimming
BETSY MITCHELL is one of the first female athletes to benefit athletically from the Title IX law. Mitchell’s college experience in the mid-to-late 1980s was right on the cusp of NCAA women’s swimming as we know it today. Mitchell’s first year of NCAA swimming was 1983-84, only a couple of years after the first NCAA…
As of 2008 the most popular football numbers are…
The winner is #81 with 6 All-Americans Joe Parker- 1943, Hub Bechtol – 1946, Carlton Massey – 1953, Maurise Doakc-1959, Shahe Dronett- 1991, and Pat Fitzgerald-1996 #10- Marty Akins-1975, D.D. Lewis-2001, James Saxton-1961, and Vince, young-2005 #66- Chal Daniel- 1941, Harley Sewell – 1952, Herb Gray -1955, and Doug Dawson 1980 #79- Dick Harris –…
Herkie Walls
Herkie Walls podcast is below. Herkie Walls podcast is sponsored by the Austin based Law firm of Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey. As one of three brothers, Hercules Walls was very active in singing with the church choir and running track through a YMCA program. Eventually, in middle school, Herkie added football to his list…