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.
There have been three athletic facilities on the campus named for the university’s influential early leader James Benjamin Clark. Clark Field #1 The first Clark FIELD OPERATED from 1887 through 1927 at the southeast corner of 24th Street and Speedway. In 1898 this location had no name. After the landowners threatened to evict “Varsity” from…
Statistically the 1914 football team and basketball team still lead in many Longhorn Sports history categories Brought to you by the Stark Center Clyde Littlefield Hall of Honor Inductees from 1914 1914 Basketball team Check out the ages of the athletes SWC champs – Undefeated Size and scores 1914 football team One of the best…
DOC HENRY “Gunga Din” Henry Reeves attends to injured Longhorns. Long before the University of Texas at Austin hired Charlie Strong, even long before the first African-American athlete was admitted to the University of Texas at Austin, the university had Henry Reeves. From 1875 to 1915, Reeves was trainer, doctor and manager — generally the…
The Three Athletic Dorms in the history of Longhorn sports may be in trouble with NIL money available for athletes to move to more posh accommodations. Moore-Hill Hall Hill Hall is named for Dr. Homer Barksdale Hill of Austin who volunteered to treat UT athletes from 1893 until his death on July 18, 1923. Beginning…
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…
View fullsize 1968- Worster and Royal View fullsize Eric Metcalf Sherri Steinbauer Sherri Steinbauer Chris Gilbert 1939 brochure Bobby Lilljedahl Bryon Townsend Patrick Boden Royal and Appleton 1981 – texas-ou Glen Gaspard and Alan Lowry Chris Simms Courtney Okolo 2016 Bobby Layne Final 4 Chris Simms Patterson and Strong Colt McCoy Mark McDonald & the…