Scholar-Athlete Award at the National Football Foundation through 1977

Maurice Doke 1959







Maurice Doke 1959






I MISS TIE GAMES by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu ) Paul “Bear” Bryant offered up long, long ago his disdainful judgment of any football game ending in a tie. “A tie is like kissing your sister,” the Bear said, of his lack of ardor for sixty minutes of football combat that decided nothing. Bryant’s opinion…
BRIGHT SPOTS IN BURNT ORANGE By Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org Sometimes you have to look for a silver lining. You have to squint hard on a gray day when a ray of sunshiny hope is as difficult to find as a haystack needle. Maybe the boss was in a bad mood. Then the I-35 or I-10…
A BAD HABIT: WHEN WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING Commentary by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) Fan Allegiance It’s long been said that while football allegiance is somewhat of a benevolent mistress, she can still be a demanding damn dame. A cruel one, too. Least ways, that’s the way hardboiled mystery writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond…
Building Bridges by Leaving Something Behind.Coach Royal put up a sign in the Texas Locker room in the 1960s saying, “WHAT I GAVE I KEPT. ” “WHAT I KEPT I LOST.” TLSN is building bridges to the past, present, and future There is no period after Royal’s middle name. Darrell lost his mother a…
CHERRY LEMONADE by Larry Carlson Unless they lived through the worst home loss in UT history, Longhorn fans likely don’t recall the name of Marty Cherry. The sophomore from the Arkansas side of Texarkana got a rough football baptism as a relief pitcher for the eleventh-ranked Horns on a hot mid-September day in 1997. A…
THE 1975 ‘HORNS: BABY, THEY WERE BORN TO RUN https://youtu.be/IxuThNgl3YA Born to Run link When Darrell Royal’s nineteenth edition of the Texas Longhorns opened camp in August ’75, prognosticators were high on the Horns. No other college team in America was going to have a ground game like Texas. It started with FB Earl Campbell,…