View in Browser Volume VIII Newsletter #6 03/03/2023 For those of you who may not already know, Ken Ehrig is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s and is now in a residential nursing home. He is no longer able to walk or speak well. His wife, Nancy, reached out to the T-Association to express her…
Top of the Que Volume V Newsletter #29 Spanky Stephens Spanky Stephens was associated with the University of Texas athletic department for over 30 years. Starting his career as a student manager in 1967, he was promoted to head trainer in 1978—a position he held until his retirement in 2000. As Head Trainer, he was…
https://fb.watch/xZ-komJMwb/ MACK BROWN SAID ABOUT HIS LIFE JOURNEY, “WE ARE LIKE PIECES OF CLAY, AND EACH PERSON WHO TOUCHES US MAKES AN IMPRESSION. JULIUS DID SO ON MY LIFE JOURNEY. WHO SOMEONE ROOMS WITH SHOULD NOT BE A NEWSWORTHY EVENT. HOWEVER, ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1970, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WROTE A “PROVOCATIVE” ARTICLE THAT SAID, “WHITTIER,…
Learning from Julius WHO SOMEONE ROOMS WITH SHOULD NOT BE A NEWSWORTHY EVENT. HOWEVER, ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1970, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WROTE A “PROVOCATIVE” ARTICLE THAT SAID, “WHITTIER, TEXAS BLACK OFFENSIVE GUARD, IS ROOMING WITH A WHITE PLAYER AND OCCASIONALLY DATING WHITE WOMEN.” I AM THAT “WHITE PLAYER.” IN 1970 COACH ROYAL CALLED THREE SENIORS…
11.26.2020 | Football Longhorn trailblazer Julius Whittier’s statue unveiled Commissioned this summer and now complete, the statue immortalizing Texas’ first Black Football letterman is placed at the north end of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Julius Whitter (1970-1972) When Julius Whittier stepped onto campus at The University of Texas in the fall of 1969 as…