Newsletter 5/09/2019

1) The bronze cast bust of the 4 Longhorn National Championship quarterbacks (clay of James Street is depicted) moves forward with President Pat Frost of Frost Bank setting up 4 accounts to receive donations, and a tax law firm hired to determine the tax exempt status of the donations. More details are in the que.

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2) In the Que is a humorous story about Spike Dykes as a high school football coach written by Mark McDonald.

Mark also recently wrote a perceptive book called Beyond the Big Shootout. The Big Shoot-out was the beginning not the ending of a new era of college football. Mark shares 50 years of Football’s Life Lessons through the eyes of 70 year old men who were part of that game in 1969.

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3) Walk-ons represent individuals with special character, confidence, and inner strength . Nathan Kaspar’s is one of them. His story and more are now chronicled on the TLSN website. Photo below is the flag that Nathan carried thru the tunnel and into DKR stadium.

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4) Spanky Stephens and David Anderson talk about the managers and trainers vicious injury riddled football competition in both the toilet and Typewriter bowls.