Pete Edmond by Bill Little
MORRIS WILLIAMS After graduating from Texas, Williams joined the Air Force and was a member of the Air Force golf team. That branch of the service got bragging rights as Williams was undefeated in tournament play and won the Worldwide Air Force Championship golf tournament playing against future golf stars like Arnold Palmer. On September…
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…
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…
Red Goodwin in 1941 enlisted in the Air Force and was killed over Germany.
Shelby Buck 1938 team was a flight officer when he was killed over Europe
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]…