Thanksgiving afternoon in 1967 was bad enough for All-American linebacker Corby Robertson and his Texas Longhorn teammates. On Texas A&M’s eleventh crack at Darrell Royal, they had eked out a 10-7 win in College Station. With the sweet win would come the Aggies’ first Cotton Bowl since 1942. Texas had lost its final two games to…
https://texaslsn.org?fluentcrm=1&route=email_preview&fc_newsletter=f6ebfe26fe71544e52c2d4f30c0c9a94 The Dale family wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas and a joyful and exciting New Year!! This is the last TLSN newsletter for 2024 Chris Gilbert will be honored at the Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet in 2025.Chris Gilbert was a standout running back for the Texas Longhorns from 1966 to 1968. He…
HOME, AND COOKIN’ !When The Horns Hooked 42 Straight by Larry Carlson https://texaslsn.org It was quite a damn feat, this Texas-sized home winnin’ streak. For those who know history, it stretched from when LBJ resided in the White House through the week in which Jimmy Carter was elected to the oval office. More than eight full…
Indulge this aged writer for just a sec, please. You get imprinted by your surroundings, your influences, as a kid. From second grade through college years, I enjoyed Thanksgiving with my parents, my older sisters, and then their husbands. We ate turkey and dressing — my Mom made traditional cornbread dressing and tasty oyster dressing…
Texaslsn.org By Larry Carlson Major Applewhite is a storied quarterbackin’ figure in UT history, a record-setter and cucumber-cool finisher who already qualifies as polished top brass among the ranks of Longhorn fan favorites. But how much brighter would his star shine, had he been provided with a few more opportunities at Texas? What if he…
View in Browser Top of the Queue Volume VII newsletter #23 11/03/2023 TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletic Department or any organization closely aligned with UT. IMPORTANT: Please click “VIEW IN BROWSER,” shown in the small white letters above, to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone. If you don’t…
View in Browser Top of the Queue Volume VII Newsletter #22 September 21, 2022. To format the TLSN newsletter for cell phones, it is necessary to Click on the white lettered “VIEW IN BROWSER” at the top of this page. Not doing so reduces the quality of photos and the text font. Health Updates: Longhorn…
View in Browser TLSN Thanksgiving Special Edition 11/22/2022 Click on the white-lettered “VIEW IN BROWSER” shown in very small print at the top of this page to enhance the quality of photos and the text of this newsletter. After Texas joins the SEC the Thanksgiving Texas-Aggie game may once again be part of Longhorn Sports…
View in Browser Thanking all for donations received to help former Longhorn student-athletes in need is more than good manners; it is good spirituality. Click on the small white “VIEW IN BROWSER” letters above for best-quality text and photos. Larry says: I was returning home from a story one night driving northbound on I-35 when…
View in Browser Volume VI Newsletter #30 – 12/21/2021 Click on “view in browser” at the top of page if images do not appear or content is distorted. NOTE: All the TLSN newsletters written since 2016 are captured in the Navigation tool at the top of the TLSN website. Warning 2016 -2018 newsletters were rudimentary…