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…
View in Browser Kenneth Sims was recently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. A full write up on Kenneth’s honor will be included in the January 29, 2021, TLSN newsletter. The “Father of bone marrow transplantation,” Dr. E. Donnall Thomas is a former SWC Longhorn swimming champion. E. Donnall (Don) Thomas Donnall was…
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS Aggies, Re-hashed & Warmed Over. 1974- Texas upsets A & M 32-3. A&M is ranked #9, and Texas is ranked #17. Don’t tell anyone, but Texas’s record against A&M in Memorial Stadium since 1924 was 23-1-1. A&M had three fumbles in the first quarter, and Texas scored points on all of the errors….
Remembering Lemons, Texas’ NIT title-winning team On the eve of the NCAA crowning a national champion at the Final Four, guest columnist Larry Carlson remembers the NIT-winning Texas squad of Abe Lemons 40 years later. Article written for 247 Sports LARRY CARLSON Apr 1st, 2018, 8:00 AM35 Long before Longhorn basketball backers swooned for Tom…
THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS- By Larry Carlson Aggies, Re-hashed & Warmed Over. Larry Carlson stirs the pot with three favorite seasonal Texas A & M memories. “Shock the Nation” is one of Texas vs Aggie trilogies that he captures for the TLSN historical site. Visit this link for the 1974 Texas-A & M game https://www.texaslsn.org/1974-aggie-game-by-larry-carlson Visit this…
Professor Larry Carlson and Pat Culpepper THE MOST SPIRITED, PASSIONATE LONGHORN EVER by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) It had been my good fortune to enjoy one of the trademark mint juleps with the prettiest girl in the world out on the patio of The Columns Hotel on stately, oak-lined St. Charles Avenue in New…
TEXAS-OU: THE HOT WAR by Larry Carlson for TLSN https://texaslsn.org This October ritual is an assault on the senses. Most every fan involved is hot and sticky, stomach churning from corny dogs, funnel cakes and too much to drink in the wee hours before gametime. The sickening sweet scent of cotton candy wafts in the…
The link below is Tom Campbell’s interview with Professor Carlson TOM CAMPBELL ???? (squarespace.com) https://www.texaslsn.org/tomcampbell-larrycarlson-flippingtheswitch Tom Campbell Mike Campbell with family Mike Campbell Tom far left next to Lou Holtz Mike and Tom Tom Campbell Tom, Jim Dent, and Mike Tom Campbell Tom and Mike in the middle Far left Scott Palmer, back row Rick…
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY FROM pROFESSOR LARRY CARLSON HAPPY DADDY’S DAY Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) If you grew up the way I did, your dear old Dad got an array of socks and handkerchiefs each year on Father’s Day. My older sisters and I didn’t need to do much or buy much. Maybe…
A BAKER’S DOZEN OF THE TOP TEXAS QUARTERBACKS: by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) The rites of spring. Ahh, yeah. No, not baseball. Talking about quarterbacks. Where they stand right now on the depth chart. Where they stand in the record books. How they look, overall, in the musty, dusty, memory files. Right now, Quinn…