CARLSON/TLSN: Let’s start with this. As the 1970 season came on the horizon, your Longhorn teams had won 20 straight, two Southwest Conference titles, two Cotton Bowls and a national championship. Any recollections and expectations from that summer of ’70 as the season approached? You had lost some terrific players such as James Street, Glen…
5/15/2021 Pass rusher deluxe, Kiki DeAyala owns the Longhorn football records most likely to never be broken. DeAyala, from Houston (Memorial High), played defensive end and was listed at 6-1, 238 for his final season at UT. His mind-boggling totals of 22.5 sacks in 1982 and 40.5 career sacks (mostly from his junior and senior…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ CARLSON: As for your time covering Longhorn sports, you came along for some of the worst of UT football, then the best turnaround ever, plus “the Runnin’ Horns” of Coach Tom Penders, featuring “BMW”…Blanks, Mays & Wright. How cool were those times, up close? BMW My first basketball season was the year of BMW….
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ Bill Schoening is one of those rare individuals who always seems to lead the league in fun. Sure, you might think, put me in place as one of America’s premier play-by-play radio announcers, and I’ll have fun, too. But the Philadelphia guy who called Texas Longhorn football, basketball and baseball for more than a…
https://texaslsn.org/larry-carlsons-interviews/ It was said by Darrell Royal that his star running back ran like a lizard. He was quick, he was fast, he was steady, he was elusive and he was durable. He once lugged the pigskin 38 times in one afternoon for Texas, something not even the great Earl Campbell ever did. He established…
As a Longhorn T-Ring recipient, businessman, and athlete, Gene Powell is a team-oriented and goal-oriented professional who combines wisdom, heart, spirit, and passion to accomplish any mission. William Eugene (Gene) Powell, BBA ’68, MBA ’70, is an innovator, community leader, and a dedicated supporter of education. In 2004, he co-founded AirStrip Technologies, a medical software…
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THE TALL TALE OF DEAN CAMPBELL by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org It sounds straight out of Mayberry, RFD. A young Dean Campbell recalls playing some good ‘ol neighborhood football in his Austin neighborhood in 1957, when the city bore a closer resemblance to Mayberry than it does to the Austin of today. A young, 30-ish…
Dean Cambell is #19 – Terry “Teapot” Collins is # 33. Dean returns punt for 50 plus yards against Baylor and is congratulated by DKR. TLSN: You know, these days, college football coaches live in gated communities or on their own private islands. You’ve described your upbringing as “blue collar,” but you grew up just…
Professor Larry Carlson and Pat Culpepper THE MOST SPIRITED, PASSIONATE LONGHORN EVER by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It had been my good fortune to enjoy one of the trademark mint juleps with the prettiest girl in the world out on the patio of The Columns Hotel on stately, oak-lined St. Charles Avenue in New…