The college football bowl tradition began with the first Rose Bowl game on January 1, 1902, but the modern “bowl series” truly took shape in the 1930s when multiple postseason bowls were established. First Bowl Game (1902): The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was the very first postseason college football game, played between Michigan and…
1983-1988 77-98 Record Coach Weltlich COACH WELTLICH’S COACHING STYLE WAS NEVER ACCEPTED BY THE MEDIA, PLAYERS, OR THE FANS, AND IT HURT HIS ABILITY TO RECRUIT THE GREAT ATHLETES. What Bob Weltlich inherited from Abe Lemmons Bob Weltlich was a successful basketball Coach at Ole Miss. before he was hired by DeLoss Dodds in 1983 …
COACH TEX ROBERTSON – 1935-1950 Coach Robertson learned to swim in Sweetwater, Tx. Tex Is an alternate in the 1932 Olympics Coach’s 72 SWC swimming champions, 17 All Americans, 4 Olympians Develops Camp Longhorn- one of the nations best summer camp programs. He is best known for inventing the flip turn. 1950 is NCAA Coach of…
Article by Gaylon Krizak ’49 Longhorns: Unlikely champs almost didn’t get their chance By Gaylon Krizak Ten games into the 1949 baseball season, it was clear to at least one observer that Bibb Falk’s latest edition of the Texas Longhorns just didn’t measure up to its predecessors. Granted, the bar the ’49 Longhorns faced…
Below is the list of all the baseball head coaches since 1896 H. B. Beck – 1896 1. F. Weikart – 1897 2. A. C. Ellis – 1898–1899, 1901–1903, 1909 3. Maurice Gordon Clarke – 1900 4. Ralph Hutchinson – 1904–1906 5. H. R. Schenker – 1907 6. Brooks Gordon – 1908 7. Charles A….
Team honors thru 2005 First-team Soccer Academic honors thru 2005 NCAA TOP VIII AWARD RECIPIENTS 2004 Kelly Wilson NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS 2004Kelly Wilson GTE/CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS 2004Kelly Wilson GTE/CoSIDA ACADEMIC-DISTRICT VI 2002 Alex Gagarin 2003 Kelly McDonald 2004 Amy Burlingham Kelly Wilson Dana Hall 2005 Amy…
Unlike Texas Basketball, Football, Track And Baseball There Are Very Few Books Or Research Material That Discuss Longhorn golf. I Hope With Time This Site Can Add Some Historical Insight And Tell The Full And Compelling Story Of The Texas golf Tradition. Looking through the window of future dreams to be a member…
A BAKER’S DOZEN OF THE TOP TEXAS QUARTERBACKS: by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) The rites of spring. Ahh, yeah. No, not baseball. Talking about quarterbacks. Where they stand right now on the depth chart. Where they stand in the record books. How they look, overall, in the musty, dusty, memory files. Right now, Quinn…
2012 Class: Jalen Overstreet (Tatum, TX) 2014 Class: Jerrod Heard (Denton, TX)- started 10 games, winning 4 losing 6 for a .400 winning percentage. After redshirting the 2014 season, Heard would play in every game during the 2015 campaign. He made 10 starts at quarterback with 1,214 yards passing and five touchdowns. Heard would make…
Image by Health I.Q. insurance Track and Field are not complicated sports. Track athletes don’t need to learn complex plays; study films to determine team tendencies or change offensive and defensive techniques every week to exploit the competitor’s weakness. Instead, track participant’s primary goal is to convert innate talents, firm discipline, and hard work into…