19-year-old Nolte McElroy a U.T. football player during fraternity initiation was instructed to bend down and crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected.
An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when McElroy fainted from shock, and died 15 minutes later.
In 1962 two real heat-related deaths in the SWC exposed the belief that water is for sissies as a fraud. It would forever change the dynamics of hydration at practice. PAT CULPEPPER Pat Culpepper’s played ball for the Horns in the early ’60s, and he wrote an Orange Blood thread about what happened in 1962…
Joe Nobis drowned while swimming near Mansfield Dam in 1968. Tommy Nobis was his older brother. Joe was a member of the 1967 football recruiting class at UT Austin. If he had survived, Joe would have contributed to two national football championships. Barbara Wainscott Tommy Nobis asked Loyd (my husband) to go with him to…
Tommy Matula has passed away. A special teammate from the 1969 and 1970 national football teams recently passed away. His friends called him “TANK.” Don’t go to the record books looking for his name; it want be there. You will have to visit the hearts of his teammates to see his indelible imprint. Tommy knew…
PARKHURST, Arlis B Arlis B Parkhurst passed away at his home in Dallas on July 2, 2020. Arlis was born in Seminole, Oklahoma, on January 17, 1937, to Vera Marie and Arlis Beckham Parkhurst. The Parkhurst family lived in Cushing, Oklahoma, where Arlis’s Father was employed as a pipeline engineer for Shell Oil Company. The…
Here is Joe Reneau’s obituary. Please accept Echovita’s sincere condolences. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Joe Reneau (Austin, Texas), who passed away on August 23, 2020, at the age of 88, leaving to mourn family and friends. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it…
From Bill Robertson Bill Johnson passed away peacefully On January first. He was a huge part of Texas Swimming history. He was captain before and after WWII. Bill Johnson and the 1943 Swim Team Bill Johnson’s accomplishments remind all Longhorns that In sports and far beyond, his contributions to Longhorn heritage have shaped the…