Early years of Longhorn Football 1883- 1926
9/15/1883 is the day that UTirst opened,, with classes starting the following year. In the book Bowled Over by Michael Oriard, the author says: Football initially belonged to the players beginning in the 1870s. They made the rules and ran the teams, but by the 1920s, it had become indisputably a coach’s game. As intercollegiate…
