In early October 2019, I received a phone call from a bartender in Hawaii who said he had read the TLSN website and knew he could reach me through my profile. The bartender said that a guest at the hotel found a Big XII Texas track Championship ring on the beach near the hotel. He…
1983 Texas 45- A&M 13 Rick McIvor brought the team back from a 13 -0 deficit with four touchdown passes tying a school mark. In 15 minutes Texas scored 45 points. Billy Boy Bryant also threw for a touchdown. 1983+Jeff Leiding consensus All American.jpg 1983John Teltschick (2).jpg
Mike Perrin and Scott Palmer sent TLSN Jimmy Hull’s obit. He was a member of the 1969 and 1970 national championship “Worster Bunch” recruiting class. Jim Hull Jimmy in profile at a reunion of the Worster Bunch James Hull Obituary James “Jim” Hull12/11/1948 – 10/07/2023James Nace Hull passed peacefully on October 7, 2023 in Houston,…
There is more than just talent involved in starting and maintaining winning traditions. Coaches who excuse defeat because the other team has more resources and a year-round developmental program, miss the point and will continue to lose. Starting or maintaining a winning tradition begins with attitude, discipline, and execution. Of these three variables, discipline is…
Part II of “A Trilogy + 1 “of football and neurodegenerative diseases Did helmets give athletes and Coaches a false sense of security that their heads could be used as A battering ram? The NCAA made helmets mandatory in 1939, according to “The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules and the Men Who Made…
Laura and Sharon Neugebauer Mick Haley had the pleasure of coaching one of San Antonio’s greatest sister acts. Back in the 1980s at the University of Texas, Laura Neugebauer followed Sharon Neugebauer to Austin and joined the Longhorns’ volleyball team; the two quickly formed one of the most devastating frontline combinations in school history. With…
LONGHORN AND JET POWER -LAMMONS,SAUERS,ELLIOT, AND HUDSON- BY BILLY DALE (squarespace.com)
TEXAS-OU: THE HOT WAR by Larry Carlson for TLSN https://texaslsn.org This October ritual is an assault on the senses. Almost every fan involved is hot and sticky, stomach churning from corny dogs, funnel cakes, and too much to drink in the wee hours before gametime. The sickeningly sweet scent of cotton candy wafts through the…
FOR INFORMATION ON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BEFORE 1957, PLEASE VISIT the following three links: https://www.texaslsn.org/19211957-anna-hiss, or https://www.texaslsn.org/1896-1921 , or https://www.texaslsn.org/the-importance-of-the-1940s-for-womens-sports Table of Contents 1957- Anna Hiss retires as the women’s director – Women’s sports history 1957-1961 1962-1974 BETTY THOMPSON transitions women’s sports from Hiss to Lopiano. BETTY THOMPSON “NOR HELL A FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED”…