View in Browser In the Next newsletter dated October 3, 2019 , the information below will be in the que. The generosity of Clyde Rabb Littlefield is allowing the Stark Center to establish a new lecture series. Our first Clyde Rabb Littlefield Lecture features Asher Price, author of the highly acclaimed biography, Earl Campbell: Yards…
Coach Clyde Littlefield makes track history 1942-1 score AT NATIONALS Coach Littlefield WWII is in full swing, and college track and field manpower is minimal. Longhorn track borrowed Longhorn football players Malcolm Kutner, Max Minor, and Jackie Field for speed. Frank Covert from Covert Auto Complex in Austin was a hurdler on the team,…
Track is the only sport in which athletes reveal their character to the fans as the event unfolds. In the picture below, Preston Davis (left) and Richard Romo (right) mirror the internal struggle that occurs thousands of times for UT athletes as they write their story in the History of U.T. Track. 1920…
1927- 1933 Coach Clyde Littlefield During his years as head coach for the Longhorn football team, his record was 44-18-6, with two SWC championships. Littlefield was a disciplinarian who used his foot to butt for players who made mistakes. But in 1933, the team went 4-5-2, and he was fired as football coach but retained…
Littlefield personified the all-around athlete By Gaylon Krizak A couple of years ago, the Longhorn Network aired a program designed to identify the greatest athlete in the history of the University of Texas. Special attention was paid to football players; not surprising at UT. Also not surprising: The greatest all-around athlete in Longhorn’s history wasn’t…