Help Coach Fred Akers and His Family

Football 1893-2014 | Football 1893-2014

Fred Akers- misunderstood and underappreciated
ByBilly Dale 01/31/202412/15/2024

Politics, Infractions, perceptions, and deceptions during the years 1976-1986 start the slow decline of Longhorn football that does not end until 1998. The Hiring of Fred Akers After Regent Erwin was replaced with Regent Shivers, Texas’s sports dynamics changed forever. But, Kirk Bohls says, “where Shivers was smoother than mink, Erwin was as subtle as…

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2019 | Newsletters

2019 Newsletters
ByBilly Dale 12/07/202206/04/2025

#1 Setting the record straight, Todd Smith (walkon), Tyres Dickson https://texaslsn.org/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/ #2 Top of the Que 05/17/2019 Volume IV Newsletter #12 James Shamblin a member of the 1950 Longhorn National Championship baseball team has passed away. Horns UP! https://texaslsn.org/que-5-20-2019-volume-iv-newsletter-12/ #3 Top of the Que 05/08/2019 Volume IV Newsletter #11 @ https://Texaslsn.org The Typewriter Bowl,…

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2024 | Newsletters

The Miracle Baby, Grubbs, TCU, Bizzell , SWC breakup record, Obit
ByBilly Dale 07/17/202410/27/2024

View in Browser Top of the Queue – Volume VIII Newsletter #5 -March 1, 2024 Click on the small white letters “VIEW IN BROWSER” at the top of the page to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone. TLSN is a 501 (c)(3) Longhorn Sports history educational website with a compassionate component….

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2020 | Newsletters

1991 women’s golf, Jim Bayless tennis, and The Bridge builder
ByBilly Dale 07/17/202410/28/2024

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…

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2020 | Newsletters

Status of Coach Fred Akers
ByBilly Dale 07/17/202410/28/2024

View in Browser We need to huddle Coach Akers Texas Legacy Support Network is passing along a Facebook Document to each of you. “My name is Diane Akers, wife and loved one of Coach Fred Akers and I need help for myself, my husband, children, grandchildren and countless others.” Coach Akers story is at https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/fredakers-and-dianeakers…

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2021 | Newsletters

LeDuc, Lucas, Pat Weis, Jimmy Clayton, David Kristynik, and Ploetz,
ByBilly Dale 07/17/202410/27/2024

View in Browser Building the Longhorn Brand Top of the Queue Volume VI Newsletter # 21 – 08/28/2021 (click on “View in Browser highlighted above if the newsletter is not to scale or no images are present. ) Farewell Ragan Gennusa – you touched so many lives in sports and art. The photo above was…

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Coach Akers

Texas Legacy Support Network is passing along a Facebook Document to each of you.

“My name is Diane Akers, wife and loved one of Coach Fred Akers and I need help for myself, my husband, children, grandchildren and countless others.”

Coach Akers story is at https://texas-lsn.squarespace.com/fredakers-and-dianeakers

TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History and assisting qualifying Horns needing temporary financial assistance. TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletics Department or any organization closely aligned with UT.

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