Fan Reflection Point remembering the history of Longhorn Sports Track1/11/2026 Louis Lowe IV says From Billy Landers “Billy Dale thanks for sharing this. Mike sold bibles door to door for The Southwestern Company summers to earn money while at UT and eventually law school. He also had several food trucks during the school year. His…
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,…
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…
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…
(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 In younger days, now faded to memory,…
Ricardo Romo’s story of exceptional performance as a Longhorn and Beyond. Breaking the 4-minute mile was a mental challenge more than a physical one. After Bannister broke the 4- minute mile, many more followed, including Longhorn Ricardo Romo. Why did the number of 4-minute milers grow exponentially after Bannister’s accomplishment? “Was there a sudden growth…
“They keep telling me things are getting better,” Johnson said. “Well, sure, they’re getting better, but when you want something really bad, you don’t want to wait 20 years for it.” In 1973, less than a year after achieving his dream of graduating from The University of Texas, Carl lost his life in a freak…
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 much my coach as he was…
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…