Rusty Coffee Frank was a very special person to me and tried to help me improve my performance as an athlete while we were growing up in the locker rooms. His adoptive son, Randy, was a classmate at Brykerwoods Elementary, as we lived in the same neighborhood! I remember his neighbor had a pet lion,…
A great story of triumph over adversity, surviving a German Forced labor Camp that leads to a historical mark in football that can never be duplicated. Edited by Billy Dale Important: Before you read one of the greatest Longhorn sports stories in the history of college football, click on the link below for a preview….
Part III of “A Trilogy + 1 “ football and neurodegenerative diseases The book “Loving Sports” by Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson states that the Onion each year after the Super Bowl uses shredded concussion Studies as confetti to celebrate the end of another season. It is a “cruel, biting humor that reminds us…
Michiko Hattori has a storied collegiate career at the University of Texas: Four-time All-American Southwest Conference Player of the Year (1987-91) Two-time National Collegiate Golfer of the Year 1988-89 National Golf Coaches and Golf Week National Player of the Year Honda Broderick Award Player of the Year (1989-90) Southwest Conference Player of the Decade for the…
A condensed bullet point history of Texas Longhorn football during the Royal years follows. Please go to the “credit” section of this website to view books you can purchase from many fine book stores about Texas Longhorn Sports or please visit the official University of Texas Longhorn site Texassports.com. In the biography of Darrell Royal,…
1974 “Cactus” comment about Soccer Mark Stinson’s graphic works were visionary in 1974 while he was a student at UT. In the “hand out” graphic below, Mark captures for the “Cactus” all the obstacles in one depiction of what women had to overcome to gain equal financial footing with the men. Great country songwriters can…
It happened on February 26th, 2001, by Matt Trissel 20 years ago today, we all sat in the team meeting room with Coach Brown on the stage. For the first and only time, he sat down in the chair and didn’t know how to address his team. The words that came out of his mouth…
From 1998-2009 11 Quarterbacks competed To Win The Starting Quarterback Position At Texas. 4 Won 123 Games, And Two Won 4 Games. The Other 4 Transferred. 1998 – Richard Walton, Robert Koy and Major Applewhite, Greg Cicero Richard Walton MAJOR APPLEWHITE-1998-2001- STARTS 30 GAMES, WINS 22 LOSES 8 Robert Koy – 1997-1998 Richard Walton…
1951- 1956 Coach Slue Hull From 1951-1959 The Longhorns won no tournaments and were never ranked. Coach Hughes and Coach Hull (right) 1951 16-8 record Coach Slue Hull Leon Black Powell , Ford TOPPING THE CHARTS 1952 1952 12-9 record Coach Slue Hull The first year of The Final Four as we know…
1941- The Longhorn Red Candle Tradition starts. Since the Horns had not defeated A & M at Kyle field since 1920 Some UT fans implored Mrs. Augusta Hipple, a fortune teller, to help break the jinxes. She instructs the Longhorn fans to burn red candles, and the Longhorns would win. In 1941 Texas won 23-0…