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BILL LITTLE COMMENTARY: A NEW ROYAL DAY
Nov. 11, 2012
Part of Bill Little’s comments about Bobby Lackey follows:
Bill Little, Texas Media Relations
Lackey……, remembers the time when he decided to run a quarterback “bootleg” and scored a touchdown on the play. After the game, Royal asked him to come to his office the next day.
“That was a good play,” Darrell had said. “But don’t do that again…it is not in our playbook.”
Soon, however, Lackey said the play was incorporated into the Longhorns’ regular attack.
Lackey, a three-year starter at quarterback and punter for Weslaco, earned all-state honors in 1955 after leading the Panthers to a 13-0 mark before a 20-7 state semifinal loss to Hillsboro. He also played in the THSCA All-Star Game. Lackey went on to play at Texas, where he quarterbacked the Longhorns to a share of the 1959 SWC title (coach Darrell Royal’s first at UT) and led the team in scoring in both 1958 and 1959. He also became the first UT player on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (Nov. 9, 1959) when he was featured walking up the tunnel at the Cotton Bowl after a win over Oklahoma.
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