Photos of Texas vs. O.U. games
Texas vs O.U. photos

Click on the link below in red font for 43 images of the Texas-O.U. Red River Rivalry from the Austin American Statesman


Click on the link below in red font for 43 images of the Texas-O.U. Red River Rivalry from the Austin American Statesman

Preface to Larry Carlson’s article on the pending Kansas State game. Coach Snyder’s Kansas State football teams were composed of 2 or 3-star athletes who beat favored 5-star blue-chip teams with intangibles and a driven spirit not measurable by computer recruiting analytical tools. Like Royal, Coach Snyder gravitated to recruits with dreams of greatness, aggressive…
Texas played the Dallas Athletic Club on Thanksgiving Day in 1896 and 1898. There were also other Thanksgiving games in the 1890s, including matches against Arkansas and LSU. The first game between the Longhorns and the Aggies took place in 1900. This matchup became a well-known Thanksgiving tradition, disrupted only when Texas refused to play…
A special memory of Cecil Morgan tailgating with my father- By Billy Dale During Mack Brown’s early years as Longhorn’s head football coach, my dad’s health started to fail. Knowing that I started searching for venues where we could enjoy quality time as father and son. I found one! Ironically, on a trip with my…
HOUDINI RIDES AGAIN: ANOTHER ESCAPE FOR UT by Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org TLSN’s Larry Carlson is in his 36th year of teaching news and sports media at Texas State University. He is a member of The Football Writers Association of America. FORT WORTH — I’m typing this at just a few ticks before midnight in the…
1971- Texas wins 34-14 By 1971, the Longhorn fans showed no interest in building a bonfire, while the Aggies continued to use engineering techniques and a passion that could light the fire to beat the Horns, but they continued to lose. Texas figured out they could win without a spirit fire. 1971 was Texa’s fourth…
What Might Have Been By Larry Carlson for https://texaslsn.org The Setting: Memorial Stadium, Oct. 17, 1964, 7:30 pm kickoff, Austin Arkansas (4-0) came south ranked number 8, and defending national champ Texas, also 4-0, held the number one ranking. At Stake: The winner would have the inside track to the Southwest Conference title and a…