In 1962 two real heat-related deaths in the SWC exposed the belief that water is for sissies as a fraud. It would forever change the dynamics of hydration at practice. PAT CULPEPPER Pat Culpepper’s played ball for the Horns in the early ’60s, and he wrote an Orange Blood thread about what happened in 1962…
WLonghorn Ed Hawkins was killed in a car accident. hatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Nolte McElroy 1928 19-year-old Nolte McElroy a U.T. football player during fraternity initiation was instructed to bend down and crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected. An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when McElroy fainted from shock, and died 15 minutes later.
1894 Dick Lee died due to complications stemming from a pole vaulting accident.