TEXAS-OU WEEK FLASHBACK: BIG DEFENSE IN BIG D, 1976-77 BY LARRY CARLSON LOVING COLLEGE FOOTBALL AS I DO, I wistfully look back almost every week to the lost art of defense. Like most of my heroes — George Washington, Davy Crockett and Elvis, to name a few — defense is gone but hardly forgotten. And…
THE SCANDAL OF ’73: OU BECOMES SWITZER-LAND by Larry Carlson, with Jay Arnold 2022- Professor Carlson, Donnie Wigginton, and Jay Arnold It started at the Texas-OU game in 1972. In spite of five turnovers to that point, Texas trailed the Sooners just 3-0 with three minutes left in the third quarter. But when the Horns…
Preface to Larry Carlson’s article on the pending Kansas State game. Coach Snyder’s Kansas State football teams were composed of 2 or 3-star athletes who beat favored 5-star blue-chip teams with intangibles and a driven spirit not measurable by computer recruiting analytical tools. Like Royal, Coach Snyder gravitated to recruits with dreams of greatness, aggressive…
BILL LITTLE COMMENTARY: A WIN FOR THE TEAM Texas vs Texas Tech Nov. 4, 2012 Bill Little, Texas Media Relations 2012 – Mack Brown talking to team in the locker room LUBBOCK, Texas — The message, throughout this 2012 season, has never changed for the Texas Longhorns. It has always been about the “team.” It…
CLOSE TO DEADLINE ON UT’S BEST by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org Drove up from San Antonio Saturday morning to my buddy Kirk Bohls’ house and he was ready to hit the road for Fort Worth at 9:00 sharp. On the way, naturally, Longhorn football dominated the discussion. We agreed it was a huge plus to…
The football History of the Texas-TCU series by Professor Larry Carlson with comments by Billy Schott. TEXAS-TCU SERIES: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY One by one, the old Southwest Conference rivalries are dying off. The old SWC died following the 1995 season, with UT as the final champion. The new, expansive Big…
COCKROACHES RAID LONGHORNS by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Professor Carlson preparing to do a hatchet job on the science fiction horror story of the Purple Toad/killer cockroach mutant undefeated team. Toad It’s long been said that cockroaches and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will be the last creatures standing or crawling on earth. And…
COMING SOON: HORNS VS COWBOYS by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org I was ready to write this headline: Choke-lahoma State Saves Sooners. How could a team given an open chute into the corral squander it all away against a losing team, BYU, at home? But Mike Gundy’s Cowboys, led by Ollie Brown II, the workhorse running…
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
TEXAS-OU: THE HOT WAR by Larry Carlson for TLSN https://texaslsn.org This October ritual is an assault on the senses. Most 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 sickening sweet scent of cotton candy wafts in the…