Joe Don Looney- UT beat  O.U. on Saturday, stopping the star sooner back.  There never was a player  so aptly named as Joe Don Looney.
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Joe Don Looney- UT beat  O.U. on Saturday, stopping the star sooner back. There never was a player so aptly named as Joe Don Looney.

1963 Texas O.U. game by Roy Jones TEXAS-OU MEMORIES: The hype leading up to the annual bloodletting at the State Fair in Dallas always harkens me back to the best game ever in the series. Since that first game in 1900, the Longhorns and Sooners have faced off 118 times, but only once have the…

2023 Texas-Texas Tech
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2023 Texas-Texas Tech

1990 Butch Hadnot – Texas Tech.jpg 1960 Texas Tech program.jpg izadi_shawn_tech_p1301.jpg Texas vs. texas tech ticket stub 10201983.jpg 1964 Texas Tech program.jpg texas tech 1970.jpg 1961 Texas Tech program.jpg 1963 Texas Tech.jpg Tech ticket 1947.png  NO TIME FOR A RED & BLACK FRIDAYby Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org (TLSN’s Larry Carlson teaches sports media classes at…

1919 Texas A & M and 1926 A & M program
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1919 Texas A & M and 1926 A & M program

1919 Texas and Texas A & M  The Aggies had not been scored on or lost a game in two years, but on this day the largest crowd in the history of football, at that time, in the state when 20,000 fans saw Texas beat A&M 7-3. Texas finished the season undefeated.

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Arkansas 1964 –

 What Might Have Been By Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org The Setting:  Memorial Stadium, Oct. 17, 1964, 7:30 pm kickoff, Austin Arkansas (4-0) came south ranked number 8, and defending national champ Texas, also 4-0, held the number one ranking. At Stake:  The winner would have the inside track to the Southwest Conference title and a…

Texas-OU Red  Rivalry and a River Runs through it
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Texas-OU Red Rivalry and a River Runs through it

Longhorns have eclipsed OU in the race for total national champions for all sports. O.U is not even close to the Longhorns as a champion, And a River Runs Through It. Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American author and scholar noted for his book “A River Runs Through It.” In the…

Texas A & M tradition – with comments from Larry Carlson
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Texas A & M tradition – with comments from Larry Carlson

A longhorn’s comment about the Aggie “midnight yell”! ““Damn, for the life of me, I don’t know why anyone would have to practice yelling.”” — Longhorn fan The Aggies inspiration to Saw Bevo’s horns off started in Biblical times. “I will cut off the horns of the wicked. ” — Psalm 75:10 Before the game…

1998 Texas A & M
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1998 Texas A & M

 1998 – Texas 26 A & M 24. Texas upset #6 ranked Aggies. Texas held A & M to a -7 yards rushing. Applewhite led the team with 232 yards in passing. Heisman winner Ricky Williams gained 259 yards to set the NCAA rushing record. Kris Stockton kicked the winning field goal. Kris Stockton.jpg Major…

1977  Texas A & M
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1977 Texas A & M

1971- Texas wins 34-14 By 1971, the Longhorn fans showed no interest in building a bonfire, while the Aggies continued to use engineering techniques and a passion that could light the fire to beat the Horns, but they continued to lose. Texas figured out they could win without a spirit fire. 1971 was Texa’s fourth…