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View in Browser Volume VII Newsletter #6 3/13/2022 Click on “View in Browser highlighted above in white lettering if the newsletter is not to scale or no images are present. LONGHORN BRAND BUILDERS By 1916 all major Universities realized that sports did a better job of increasing academic standards, school loyalty, and student enrollment than…
View in Browser Volume VIII Newsletter #3 01/20/2023 Click on the small white letters “VIEW IN BROWSER” shown above to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone. Mark Banton contacted TLSN and said “Pat Culpepper’s house burned this morning” (1/09/2023). “They are OK, but that 100 yr old house is a loss…
Longhorn Olympians Gilbert Ford- 1956 Kevin Durant 2012 and 2016 Jay Arnette, 1960 Olympian Billy: You are probably already on it, but former Longhorn Jay Arnette was a member of the original Olympic basketball “Dream Team” In 1960. Jay went on to play both pro basketball and pro baseball before coming back to Austin and…
Jack Kamrath, in the link below, narrates the tennis family history through a podcast, photographs, and text, showcasing the remarkable story of one family’s impact on Longhorn and international tennis sports history. May 8, 2018 On May 8, 2018, Karl Kamrath Sr. was inducted into the University of Texas Longhorn Hall of Fame in 1978…
Track is the only sport in which athletes reveal their character to the fans as the event unfolds. In the picture below, Preston Davis (left) and Richard Romo (right) mirror the internal struggle that occurs thousands of times for UT athletes as they write their story in the History of U.T. Track. 1920…
View in Browser Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #25- The photo above is Coach Snyder as a Longhorn tennis player in 1958. The TLSN website and newsletter are free, educational, historical, and insightful, sharing Longhorn sports history through the eyes of those who created it. Tim Taylor’s before and after Longhorn football game…