On November 17, 1934, Texas and TCU played a hard-fought and turnover-marred contest in Fort Worth, which Texas won 20-19. After the game was over, backup Longhorn tackle named Jim Tolbert ran onto the field and took a swing at the game’s umpire, Jack Mahan, for what Jim felt were bad calls against Texas. UT’s…
UT’S King-Sized Robert Guevara By Larry Carlson When Robert Guevara signed a letter of intent to play football with the national champion Texas Longhorns in early 1970, he was the biggest thing to come out of Marfa, Texas since Liz Taylor. When Taylor completed work on “Giant,” in 1955 and left the tiny town…
Garry Brown’s story inspires me because it highlights the “rest of the story” about playing sports at Texas and honors all athletes, not just the starters. Garry never saw playing time or even made the traveling team until one magical moment that is forever part of Longhorn sports history. His commitment to Texas embodies the…
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…
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ARCH, HORNS ROLL FOR TEN IN 2025 Arch Manning, with his Texas team’s slick 41-27 thumping of Michigan in the 2025 Citrus Bowl, joined a rather august herd of Longhorn quarterbacks in the history book.It’s the list of UT signal-callers who have bossed a team to double-digit wins as a starter. Manning did it in…
Texas Longhorns football today is the most valuable program in the game. The foundation was built over 50 years ago. By Stephen Ross Jul 13, 2016, 12:57pm CDT It’s being called “The Greatest Opening Weekend of College Football Ever.” The college football orgy starts with Kansas State at Stanford on Friday Sept. 2nd, then moves…
by Randy Willis The following is an edited version of Randy Willis’ story and photo assortment tailored for the TLSN sports historical site. Here is the link to his whole story about the Longhorn cheerleader calendar cover . https://randywillisbooks.com/randy-willis-the-eyes-of-texas/ Randy says, “I get a call from Brown Distributing in Austin. They are the local Budweiser…
Donnie Wigginton’s interview is at https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ Billy Dale says: Less than a handful of “boys turning to men” can say they received a pitch-out from the first four quarterbacks in the productive history of the Wishbone. Yours truly is one of them. Bill Bradley, James Street, and Eddie Phillips had a soft pitch with a…