Pete Edmond by Bill Little
1940 Texas relays Conradt Coleman KIA in the Navy WWII
Chal Daniels Chal Newton Daniel, Jr. (August 31, 1921 – February 13, 1943) was an American football player. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns football team and was selected by the International News Service, the Sporting News, and the Central Press Association as a first-team guard on the 1941 College Football All-America Team.[1][2]…
James Horace Higginbotham (1893-1918) Higginbotham Was The First Of Three Lettermen (And Four Members Total) From The 1912 Texas Longhorn Football Team To Die While In Military Service. James Higginbotham- A member of the 1912 team, who died in an airplane training accident in the U.S. Higginbotham enrolled at UT after graduating from the Terrill…
BOTHWELL BIERCE KANE (1893-1918) Bothell Kane should inspire all of us to be strong and responsible global citizens. BOTHWELL KANE Bothwell Kane was a promising starting tackle on the 1912 Longhorn team, earning a letter as a freshman. That much we know. We also know that Lieutenant Bothwell Bierce Kane was mortally wounded in the…
Celebrating Longhorn baseball player Ray Dulak’s life- killed in Vietnam at the age of 26 Rey Moreno, a past manager of Track and Field for the Longhorns, sent TLSN a story about Whataburger sponsoring young athletes dreaming of future greatness in the late 1950s. In those years, the Whataburger promotion stated: “It’s Not Whether…
CHEVIGNY IS KILLED ON IWO JIMA IN WWII. HORNS UP! Another legend surrounding Chevigny is that, after the 1934 football victory, he had been presented a fountain pen with the inscription, “To Jack Chevigny, a Notre Dame boy who beat Notre Dame” and that on September 2, 1945, this pen was discovered in the hands…