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Jimmy Hull
Former Texas A.D. Mike Perrin and Longhorn, turned New York Jet, Scott Palmer notified TLSN that Jimmy Hull, a 1969 and 1970 national championship team member and part of the “Worster Bunch,” has passed away.
You can send your post about Jimmy Hull to Billydale1@gmail.com, and your comments will be posted on his Celebration of life page.
Jimmy’s link is
HORNS AND EYES UP !
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Happy Birthday, Edith Royal! 98 years old
The board members of the DKR Fund “ honor Edith for all she has done for Alzheimer’s research, the State of Texas, The University of Texas, college football, recovering people with an addiction, friends in need, and her family, which includes all of Coach Royal’s former players and every person who ever earned the right to wear the precious T ring. She is an inspiration!”
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The Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease exists to fund critical and collaborative research that will bring about medical breakthroughs in the treatment and cure of AD.
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Last year, the DKR Fund provided a $500,000 grant and multi-year commitment to launch UT Southwestern Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute’s College Level Aging Athlete Study (CLEAATS).
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This landmark study is designed to advance medical science’s understanding of how participation in collegiate sports and resulting sports-related concussions may impact brain wellness in later life.
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The study is seeking to recruit 500 individuals — 250 men and 250 women — over age 50 who played an NCAA or NAIA sport for at least one season in college to participate in the study.
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To date, we have almost completed our initial participation needs, but we still are looking for men and women to join the study. Please share the study with anyone who may fit the criteria.
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LONGHORN ROYALTY
Click on the comment below to learn more about Cleaats
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Longhorn softball teams also huddle
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Larry Carlson teaches sports media classes at Texas State University. He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America.
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UT vs K-State: No More Bill (Snyder) To Pay
It’s the Thanksgiving season, Longhorn fans.
Be thankful that K-State doesn’t have Bill Snyder directing the boys from The Little Apple of Manhattan, KS. The grandfatherly, snowy-haired, bespectacled gent, now 84, was absolutely a Wildcat when it came to taking on Texas. Despite losing his last two shots against UT (under Tom Herman in 2017 and 2018), Snyder is the rare cat with a lifetime winning record in tussles with Texas. His teams won 7 of 13 in Big XII matches with the Horns, and probably never suited up a player who had a scholarship offer from UT. He took THE most moribund, most awful D-1 program in America when he began at KSU in ’89, and turned it into a winner. Snyder’s teams were seldom photogenic but always tough.
Now the Wildcats have Chris Klieman, a proven winner at North Dakota State who is 10-3 in his last year and a half in Manhattan. The defending Big XII champs are never an easy out for anybody, anytime, anywhere. Texas fans recall a litany of names such as quarterbacks Jonathan Beasley, Michael Bishop and Heisman finalist Collin Klein, now the Wildcat offensive coordinator.
And insect-sized scatbacks Darren Sproles and Round Rock’s (Cedar Ridge) Deuce Vaughn have dealt plenty of problems to UT defenses, and K-State’s very own stop-em units are traditionally salty.
Come Saturday, expect a strong K-State ground game to make for a bruising matchup with the rough UT run defense. Seismic collisions are in the forecast. Coach Sark might be advised to remind the current roster of Longhorns that historically, these Sunflower State guys are neither wallflowers nor pansies. Texas was 4-9 against the Purple People-Eaters in Big XII competition through 2016. Ouch.
But since the exit of Charlie Strong, the Longhorns have fought their way to six straight wins against the Wildcats.
For the rest of Larry’s story about the pending Kansas State game visit:
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Evaluating sports history in the present is fraught with the current biases of the reader. To understand sports history in the proper time frame, you must leave the present and hop in a Back to the Future time machine to understand the athlete’s thoughts from the inside out. TLSN is a state-of-the-art 2023 time machine capturing and chronicling the history of Longhorn sports as told by those who created the Longhorn Brand.
Not acceptable in 2023 but ok in 1961 cheerleaders were not included in the travelling budget for the Texas vs. Cal football game, so a UT Austin cheerleader alumnus hired San Francisco night club girls from Bimbo’s Club as substitute UT cheerleaders. Texas won 28‑3.
The whole story is told by the UT History Corner at the link below.
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Bimbo’s Longhorn Cheerleader replacements
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Burnt Orange is our spirit color, but red is also part of Longhorn sports heritage. From Red McCombs to the “Red” candles, winning formulas have been formed.
Red is a physical color that gives energy, strength, dynamism, power of will, and incredible athletic competitive abilities. Red Is a symbol of fire. Using the red candle can help you achieve fame or progress in your career quickly.
THE LONGHORN RED CANDLE TRADITION
1941- Since the Horns had not defeated A & M at Kyle Field since 1920, Some UT fans implored Mrs. Augusta Hipple, a fortune teller, to help break the jinxes. She instructed the Longhorn fans to burn red candles, and the Longhorns would win. Texas won 23-0 at Kyle Field. For other wins assigned to Red Candles, click on
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September/October 2022 A chance encounter in 1941 turned Augusta Hipple into Madame Hipple, Austin’s resident clairvoyant. While working as a janitor at the University of Texas, she was approached by a group of students with a problem: The football team had a crucial game against A&M, and they were seeking supernatural assistance. “A fortune teller?” she asked. “I am one.”
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Many years later, Mrs. Hipple shared her story about the Red Candle tradition. She told the students who came to see her in 1941 that “the boys were struggling, so they only needed something to relax the child within us all.”
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Red has shared his success with U.T.
In the largest single donation in the 117-year history of The University of Texas at Austin, San Antonio businessman Red McCombs gave a $50 million cash gift to the University’s business school. Red-built winners at Texas and in the business world. A link to his bio is at
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As of 2020, all of the McCombs legacy gifts have paid national dividends building the Longhorn Brand. For example, U.S. News & World Report ranks a McCombs BBA as the #5 best undergraduate business program in the country. In addition, Texas tied the University of Pennsylvania for the highest number of top 10 program specialties, including top 5 rankings in accounting, marketing, management, finance, management information systems, and business analytics.
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1931 Mike De La Fuente overcame discrimination to become the first Hispanic to receive a scholarship to play baseball at Texas.
On September 7, 1927, Mike De La Fuente was turned down for room and board because of his nationality. De La Fuente moved in with the janitor, and when he reported to baseball practice on the freshman team, the coach assumed he was a batboy and not a pitcher. Mike worked his way through school, earning $1 each time he prepared the infield for practice and games. On the days he pitched, Coach Disch would do Mike’s work for him.
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Sport: Baseball (1929-1931)
Position: Pitcher
Inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1994
All-SWC in 1931
Led UT to SWC titles in 1929 and 1930
First citizen of Mexico inducted into Longhorn Hall of Honor
1911-1940 BILLY DISCH (squarespace.com)
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