A walk-on from Wharton, Texas, Harrison Stafford went on to become perhaps the toughest football player in UT history. The Assistant coach, Shorty Alderson, reported to head coach Clyde Littlefield, “Clyde, I found you the darndest football player you ever saw. He tore up a couple of dummies and hurt a couple of men. He…
1956 was not good year for 3 of the 4 of the major sports at Texas. Track won the SWC, but The football team was 1-9, the basketball team was 5-7, and the baseball team only one 5 games . The football team and the baseball teams had the worse records in the history of…
Charm presented by Cotton Bowl to team players Some of the content is compliments of Larry Bob Moore. His father played for Randolph Field in the 1944 Cotton Bowl game against Texas #56. The war effort depleted the talent pool of college football teams, so the decision-makers chose to remedy this problem to bolster both…
THIS IS A PARTIAL REPRINTING OF THE WALKON STORY FOR 2019. BY WESCOTT EBERTS@SBN_WESCOTT FEB 7, 2019, 8:11PM CST Coach Herman One will play for the same program where his grandfather and his father played. One will join his older brother. One participated in a high school all-star game that featured the commitment of Katy…
Photos of some of the Horns who attended the luncheon and introduction of Coach Herman on January 11th 2017 John Henderson is the oldest living Longhorn athlete (104 Y.O.) and Fred Bednarski is a concentration camp survivor and the first soccer style kicker in the history of college football. Their stories follow in the queue….