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.
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…
Longhorn Sports landscape changes dramatically During the years 1972- 1979 Longhorns play for a football National Championship in 1977 The basketball team wins the SWC 4 times Texas track builds a dynasty Baseball team wins 4 consecutive SWC Championships Women’s Athletics comes on strong reaching national prominence in basketball, tennis, swimming, diving, and golf….
Texas Football Coaches 1883- 1926 were Wentworth, Crawford, Robinson, Kelly, Edwards, Clarke, Thompson, Hart, Hutchinson, Schenker, Metzenthin, Draper, Wasmund, Allerdice, Van Gent, Juneau, Littlefield, Whitaker, and Stewart 9/15/1883 is the day that UT first opened,, with classes starting the following year. In the book Bowled Over by Michael Oriard, the author says: Football…
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…
1941- The Longhorn Red Candle Tradition starts. Since the Horns had not defeated A & M at Kyle field since 1920 Some UT fans implored Mrs. Augusta Hipple, a fortune teller, to help break the jinxes. She instructs the Longhorn fans to burn red candles, and the Longhorns would win. In 1941 Texas won 23-0…
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…