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Sports writer Dan Jenkins said about the big shootout. “All week long in Texas the people said Hogs ain’t nothing but groceries and that on Saturday in the thundering zoo of Fayetteville, the number one Longhorns would eat ….. hog meat with Worster-Speyrer sauce.  Fifty plus years later, Texas-Arkansas shootout worth remembering ByLARRY CARLSON Dec…

CHERRY LEMONADE by Larry Carlson Unless they lived through the worst home loss in UT history, Longhorn fans likely don’t recall the name of Marty Cherry. The sophomore from the Arkansas side of Texarkana got a rough football baptism as a relief pitcher for the eleventh-ranked Horns on a hot mid-September day in 1997. A…

  As of 2007 holds the record for most receptions in a game (13) and in a career (241). Most Career yards 3,866 Most career touchdown reception (36) Highest average yards per reception for a game (45) Hold the record for most consecutive games with a recption (47)  Let the good times roll for Texas,…

Texas’s wishbone offense fondly remembered 50 years after the debut By LARRY CARLSON Aug 25, 2018 Ted Koy was at home in Bellville, trying to cool off after another hot, humid summer day of hauling hay and digging post-holes on his father’s farmland, an hour west of Houston but a million miles distant in feel,…

Larry Carlson has written several articles for Horns247 as a guest -columnist.     Goodbye to A&M: No reason for Longhorns, Aggies to play again https://247sports.com/college/texas/Article/Horns247-guest-columnist-Larry-Carlson-on-why-Texas-Longhorns-should-never-play-Texas-AM-again-110971137/ Goodbye to A&M: No reason for Longhorns, Aggies to play again Guest columnist Larry Carlson doesn’t think there’s anything to be gained by Texas renewing its football rivalry with…

A Burnt Orange Christmas Ditty by Larry Carlson, with apologies to Clement C. Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, When throughout Bellmont Hall Not a creature was stirring, There hung quite a pall. The stockings were hung, though there would be no bowl, And many predicted just small lumps o’ coal. Longhorn Nation was tossin’…

LOOKING FORWARD TO FOOTBALL, WITH AN ASTERISK By  LARRY CARLSON  By Larry Carlson    LOOKING FORWARD TO FOOTBALL, WITH AN ASTERISK Opinion, by Larry Carlson I can’t wait for college football. The countdown to kickoff has been a big part of the rites of summer for me since 1961 when I got my first issue of…

    Number Eleven, And What Might Have Been By Larry Carlson Larry Carlson has followed the Longhorns since seeing his first orange tower in 1960.  He hosted the Longhorn Locker Room Show on Austin’s KVET Radio and was later a co-host of Longhorn Pipeline on San Antonio’s ESPN Radio affiliate.  Larry just retired after…

This comment highlights something the Horns did not do often enough pre-coach Sark. Alec Baldwin is telling his “players” that they should ALWAYS BE CLOSING in the game.    Larry Carlson saw his first orange tower after a victory in 1960 and has been following Longhorn football ever since. He hosted the Fred Akers Pre-game…