Coach Clyde Littlefield makes track history 1942-1 score AT NATIONALS Coach Littlefield WWII is in full swing, and college track and field manpower are 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,…
Randy Lightfoot was a record-setting hurdler in 1970s 1973 Lightfoot.jpg 1972 Randy Lightfoot, Jim Heredon, Coach Price Robert Primeaux, Gordon Hodges. BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Randall Lee “Randy” Lightfoot, a record-setting hurdler . He grew up in Plainview, graduating from Plainview High School in 1971. An outstanding athlete, Randy won the Texas Class 4A 120-yard high…
A tall and muscular athlete, he won All-American honours while at the University of Texas and was the 1975 World University champion in the shot put. A silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games was followed by his first Olympic appearance at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won a Commonwealth Games bronze on home turf in 1978 and also set a Canadian record of 20.83 m in the shot…
“Click on the text denoted in red font on the side bar to visit other sites in this grid Blue font denotes results at the national meet. Track is the only sport that athletes reveal their character to the fans as the event unfolds. In the picture below Preston Davis (left) and Richard Romo (right) mirror the…
(This piece originally appeared in American Way magazine and is here reprinted with permission of the author.) (Author Carlton Stowers, like Smith, ran lead-off leg on the Longhorns’ 440-yard relay in the early ’60s. Thereafter, the comparison abruptly ends.) WORLD’S FASTEST COWBOY by Carlton Stowers…
Dave Morton’s T-RING REFLECTIONS May 2020 I was probably not all that easy to coach, although I tried to be. I guess by the time I got to UT I had too many good coaches (all with different styles), plus myself, and Dave Rickey, the manager and founder of the Houston Striders, who wasn’t so…
Track and Field require mental toughness and the ability to overcome adversity. The Greeks chose Track and Field as the key sport for Olympic competitions because it is the most universal of all sports that pit individuals against each other to prove who is the best. There is no need to study films to determine…
UT -MEN’S TRACK- No team National championships As of 2016 UT has produced 35 NCAA individual National champions. Coach Froggie Lovvern 1962-1963 Coach Lovvern graduated from Stamford High School in Texas and attended Pepperdine, where he won the national championship in the 1500 meter. 1962-2 SCORES AT NATIONALS Coach Lovvorn Baylus Bennett 5th in the…
Cross Country
