View in Browser IMPORTANT: Please click “VIEW IN BROWSER,” shown in the white letters above, to enlarge and enhance the photos and text on your cellphone. If you don’t click, the text and pictures will be tiny and difficult to read. Top of the Queue Volume VII newsletter #16 8/04/2023 TLSN is not associated with…
. Ed Price, the head coach of the football team in the 1930’s won 8 letters with the Longhorns and played on championship teams in football, basketball, and baseball. Coach Price chose to move from the T formation to the split T formation which required a running quarterback. His goal was to run more and…
IN THE 1960S, NICE COACHES FINISHED LAST “When you show up at the University, you’re all grunts. Nobody’s a superstar in Coach Royals program.” Jerry Sisemore Only those not part of the Texas football program thought that most DKR players liked him. Royal was a simple man with a big heart for all but his…
My neighbor in Odessa, Texas, was Cotton Price, the quarterback for the 1939 national champions Texas Aggie team. His son, David Price, shown in this photo, was on two Longhorn national championship teams with Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite. A paraphrased article in Odessa Living Magazine by James McAfee follows: For 50-plus years David Price…
Image by Health I.Q. insurance Track and Field are not complicated sports. Track athletes don’t need to learn complex plays; study films to determine team tendencies or change offensive and defensive techniques every week to exploit the competitor’s weakness. Instead, track participant’s primary goal is to convert innate talents, firm discipline, and hard work into…
What Coach Patterson Taught Me About Leadership- 1968 Coach Cleburne Price I have identified four characteristics of the world’s most effective leaders: Number One – They truly care about their followers. Number Two – They have an unconditional belief in those they lead. Number Three – They are fair. They have the same standards for…