REWIND TO 1982 TEXAS MAKES TURKEYS OUT OF AGGIES by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org The weather in Austin was cold and raw on Thanksgiving Day, 1982. Misty and forty degrees. But it didn’t take long for the Longhorns to provide Texas fans with a toasty glow, whether or not they had partaken in a nip of…
A West Texan (Kermit), Jimmy Clayton, was an All-American golfer at North Texas State in 1968. Jim says, “I recruit smilers.” The players are the “P.R. group for the University.” In the college golfing world, it is essential to be positive and friendly. Jim Clayton is U.T.’s first full-time Golf Coach 6-time SWC Coach of…
Unlike Texas Basketball, Football, Track And Baseball there are very few books that discuss Longhorn tennis. I hope with time this site can add some historical insight and tell the full and compelling story of the Texas tennis tradition. 1976 is the first year of NCAA sanctioned tennis at Texas Tennis record thru 2015 is 717…
It took more than a stroke of a pen by President Nixon to give women players the chance to compete on equal footing with men. You might think that after Title IX was signed into law, along with Title IX rules issued in 1972 and regulations in 1975, the women’s collegiate programs, which already had…
Coach Patterson’s autobiography is below: With resolve and strength of will, Coach Patterson was instrumental in moving Texas swimming into an era of prominence. From Eugene Watson- “Wow, what an incredible posting of one of the most important figures in the history of the development of “swimming” competition in the state of Texas. Personally, I…
December 1982 Issue Texas Monthly by Jan Reid Images added by Billy Dale Coach Royal Regrets Why he won. Why he quit. Why he doesn’t miss it? Raising a great cloud of caliche dust, Darrell Royal zoomed away from the lake house in his van. He explained his haste as a measure of consideration for…
Steve Ross and Coach Akers Telling it like it is Flying back from a football road game is not fun. Cramped quarters for large bodies – bodies that are sore from the game. It really isn’t fun when you were the #1 team in the nation, and you lost 42-11 to Arkansas. That was the…