The collective record for the Longhorn baseball, football, and basketball team in 1922-1923 season was 60-1-1. That record will never be beaten.
1924 is one of the best years ever for Texas Sports.
Colonel Walter s. Hunnicutt wrote “Taps” the song with James E. King. Honeycut said he wrote the song to “counteract the songs and yells of the uncomplimentary Aggie songs which demeaned U.T. Click on the Text denoted in red font on the side bar to visit other sites in this grid
The Rise and Fall of the Super Drum Click on red “facebook” to see the final moments of the drum. Facebook Since 1977, almost 26 million people have visited the Super Drum. In 1980, after the passing of Frank Erwin, the Super Drum was renamed the “Frank Erwin Center.” Frank’s name never stuck on the…
Author Emma Schkloven in the title to an article she wrote in October 2022 for the Austin Monthly captures the history of Bevo in 32 words. Bevo’s Long Ride to the Mascot Mountaintop UT’s beloved icon may be living large now, but he’s faced kidnappings, hazings, and even the dinner plate before rising to big…
T-Ring by Edith Royal https://youtu.be/vlldDCJ7UXU Before the T_Ring there was an organization formed called the “Order of the T” and the “T” Association the origins of the T-Ring and the importance of the ring to recipients are shared in the following article . The T-Ring was first introduced to Texas athletics during Coach Royal’s first…
Best Cotton-Pickin’ Sportswriter In America by Larry Carlson https:// texaslsn.org Below are the oral history podcast, text, and photo links to Kirk Bohls. https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/kirk-bohls My buddy, Kirk, is pretty tough. He once played the second half of a late ’60s high school football game with a broken neck. That wasn’t gonna stop the 5-7 135-pound…
A tall and muscular athlete, he won All-American honours while at the University of Texas and was the 1975 World University champion in the shot put. A silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games was followed by his first Olympic appearance at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won a Commonwealth Games bronze on home turf in 1978 and also set a Canadian record of 20.83 m in the shot…