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.
Roy Miller 2005- 2009 ALL ROADS LEAD THROUGH MACK BROWN ALL ROADS LEAD THROUGH MACK BROWN As a boy living in Virginia, he loved the ACC, particularly Mack Browns and North Carolina’s Tar Heels. A decade later, destiny called, and Roy got his wish to play for Mack Brown as a Longhorn. However, the road…
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…
The Orange Jackets Since its inception in 1923, OJs have been actively serving both UT and the greater Austin community. Orange Jackets is the oldest honorary service organization at the University of Texas. The organization’s core tenets are excellence in scholarship, leadership, service, and community. Orange Jackets have been sporting this uniform since the UT…
The Longhorn Knothole Club 3000 strong The Longhorns never sold out a game during the pre and post-depression years. So UT allocated 3000 free seats to school-age fans and some high school bands. UT delivered Knothole Club memberships cards to some public schools. The kids got so rowdy during the game that UT and to…
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…
The 1959 Longhorn band memorializes the Santa Rita UT owns 2,108,966 acres of Texas land. In the mid-1800s, the legislator thought it was worthless and God-forsaken West TX brush country, and at the time, it was. The New York investors who staked corral Cromwell to drill on it were so skeptical they named the project…