Before the Wishbone offense took center stage, the opposing defense’s job was to react and neutralize the offensive play. Emory Bellard changed the defensive strategy with the option offense by devising the first successful offensive college running scheme dictated by defensive decisions. Neither offensive nor defensive players knew who would get the ball when the…
PROGRESS – Or Lack Of It – REPORT From The Old SWC by Larry Carlson for https:// texaslsn.org It was an ugly breakup, as all breakups are. No love lost. None found. Hurt feelings, hard feelings. Splitsville. It followed the 1995 season. Arkansas had jumped ship four years earlier. But nobody in Texas really cared….
Professor Larry Carlson and TLSN have chronicled a part of Longhorn sports history that will NEVER occur again. To my knowledge, there has never been a Super Bowl winner with 4 players from the same college who won a national championship and who then all started and won the Super Bowl. Horns Up! All four…
https://www.kxan.com/sports-general/longhorn-dusty-renfro-gives-ultimate-gift-to-his-father/ Longhorn Dusty Renfro gives ultimate gift to his father By Andrew Schnitker Posted Dec 18, 2016 / 4:45 CST / Updated Dec 18, 2016. /4:45 CST The two photos and one quote were added by Billy Dale. Dusty #60 The bond between father and son is greater than most. Throughout his football career, former…
Politics, Infractions, perceptions, and deceptions during the years 1976-1986 start the slow decline of Longhorn football that does not end until 1998. The Hiring of Fred Akers After Regent Erwin was replaced with Regent Shivers, Texas’s sports dynamics changed forever. But, Kirk Bohls says, “where Shivers was smoother than mink, Erwin was as subtle as…
Chevigny the Showman- 1934-1936 1933 – Chevigny is the Head Coach at St. Edwards. His magnetic personality won over the city of Austin and the sportswriters loved his persona saying “there is no doubt that Chevigny is a coaching wizard.” When Littlefield resigned the Athletic Council chose two coaches to interview with the Board of…
In the beginning, as now, politicians were all talk and no action about creating a first-rate school for higher learning. On March 2, 1836, Texicans drafted their Declaration of Independence from Mexico. One of their grievances against the Mexican government was a public education system. Once Texas gained its independence and documents were written about…
9/15/1883 is the day that UTirst opened,, with classes starting the following year. In the book Bowled Over by Michael Oriard, the author says: Football initially belonged to the players beginning in the 1870s. They made the rules and ran the teams, but by the 1920s, it had become indisputably a coach’s game. As intercollegiate…
PASS/FAIL by Professor Larry Carlson https:// texaslsn.org (This part just below, Billy, for FACEBOOK only) Back to the classroom now after a long, luxuriant Christmas break. The remarkable college football season is over and Texas certainly graded out with an “A” for its superlative season. But with the Sugar Bowl fresh in the minds of…
In the Book Forty-acres Follies, the author Joe Frantz says about Coach Cherry, “In character Cherry was the antithesis of Bible.” While Bible was a schemer and a motivator, talkative and charming, Cherry was moody, quiet, and difficult to know. Cherry never got along easily with the press or alumni, while Bible knew how to…