College football History
Longhorn football Sports History – click on photo
Ernie Koy Senior While at UT, he was a fullback on the football team from 1930 to 1932. He played as an outfielder on the baseball team from 1931 to 1933 and served as a captain in 1933. He was a three-time all SWC player. Dana Bible said Ernie Koy was the greatest fullback ever seen in action. In…
Rowing – Coach O’Neil 2014 to Present https://www.facebook.com/share/v/194zoT1xbW/ UNLIKE TEXAS BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, TRACK, AND BASEBALL, THERE ARE VERY FEW BOOKS DEDICATED TO LONGHORN Rowing. I HOPE, WITH TIME, THIS SITE CAN ADD SOME HISTORICAL INSIGHT…
Books about the 1969 National champion football season Author Bower Yousse Mike Looney
Professor Larry Carlson and TLSN have chronicled a part of Longhorn sports history that will NEVER occur again. To my knowledge, there has never been a Super Bowl winner with 4 players from the same college who won a national championship and who then all started and won the Super Bowl. Horns Up! All four…
Politics, Infractions, perceptions, and deceptions during the years 1976-1986 start the slow decline of Longhorn football that does not end until 1998. The Hiring of Fred Akers After Regent Erwin was replaced with Regent Shivers, Texas’s sports dynamics changed forever. But, Kirk Bohls says, “where Shivers was smoother than mink, Erwin was as subtle as…
A teammate, a friend, and a competitor who has transformed my black-and-white view of life into a breathtaking panorama of vibrant colors. We first met in 1965-1966 as competitors in the highest classification of high school football. I played for the Odessa Permian Panthers, and he played for the Abilene High School Eagles, coached by…