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TX-OU 35 Years Ago: It Still Matters
It's TX-OU week. Everything is ramped up -- the hype, the anger, as well as the genuine mistrust between the two programs. Fans know this and they hardly need any added factors to increase the vitriol, but it is always there. This year it is realignment fiasco. Huck has pointed out already today...
Mack's Third Act
One of the great pleasures of writing is that it allows you to walk to the edge of a cliff. It’s a beautiful, self-satisfying view. Until you get pushed off. It remains to be seen whether I will go ass over teakettle into the abyss, but ten months ago, I wrote this piece. Here’s the money quote: I...
Love (Of $$$) Will Tear Us Apart
I’m the fourth in a row in my family to have my name. The first one, a native of a small town in Central Texas, was a Longhorn. His son, my grandfather, was a military man and an Aggie. My father was also a military man, also an Aggie. I skipped the military and went to Texas, following a...
53 Veer Pass
"53 Veer Pass" It was a simple instruction from a coach on the sidelines to his Quarterback. The circumstances swirling around them were anything but. While Darrell Royal had the appearance of outward calm amid the chaos that was unraveling 41 years ago to the day in Fayetteville, Arkansas the...
A Remembrance of Things Past, and a reminder that things don’t last
I wrote the following in the Jones Top Ten this week: Texas and Florida are headed to the same place for very different reasons. While I fully believe that Urban Meyer has lost his passion for the game, in Mack Brown’s case, the evidence mounts that the game has simply passed him by....
November 1960
Gunsmoke was the top-rated TV show on the networks. John Wayne's latest film hit the screens. And on November 14, 1960 the AP College Football Poll appeared without Texas, USC, Penn State or Notre Dame in the Top 20. That wouldn't happen again for almost 50 years. This week's AP poll is the...
One More Time: Why This Game is Special
"The University of Texas football season begins with the Oklahoma game. All before that is so much throat-clearing." Dan Jenkins, Sports Illustrated. When Bo Schembechler resigned at Michigan, ABC persuaded him to work a few football games as a color analyst. Schembechler never really warmed to...
Memories of The Catch: Texas vs UCLA 1970
Scipio has already brilliantly re-lived the ugly Yang of UCLA's last trip to Austin. I on the other hand would prefer to re-live the thrilling Ying of the Bruins first trip here. It was 1970, and Austin was a still a small college town. This is what the Austin skyline looked like in 1970 as you...
UT's Fred Bednarski: College Football Pioneer
When Fred Bednarski was five years old, he and his family were taken prisoners in their native Poland. It was 1942, and Bednarski's family would spend three years in a Nazi labor camp outside Salzburg, Austria. After being liberated from the camp, and finding their way to the U.S., the Bednarski's...
1982 Texas-Alabama: Drawing Up One Perfect Play
In 1954, Junior Quarterback Charlie Brewer threw two touchdown passes as Texas defeated Bear Bryant and Texas A&M 22-13. Twenty eight year later Bryant was still coaching and this time Charlie sat in the Cotton Bowl stands and watched his son Robert help Texas pull off a 14-12 upset of...
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