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 thanks to all who were a part of UT Football and those they saw at the 2019 50th-year national championship reunion.
Kasey Reed
KEN EHRIG (squarespace.com)
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UT Southwestern Medical School and The Darrell K Royal Research Fund have partnered to present CLEAATS, a Texas-wide investigation designed to advance knowledge of collegiate sports participation and sport-related concussion concerning current brain wellness.
If you are 50 or older and have played an NCAA or NAIA sport for at least one season in college, we want to hear from you!
Help professionals learn more about concussion-related diseases by participating in this survey. Here is the application form from the DKR fund.
The story of the DKR fund is at:
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES- SHANE DRONETT
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In 1935 Coach Chevigny’s Longhorn visions led to the first “training table” and athletic dorm with a “dorm mother””
Her name was “Ma Griffith.” Ms. Griffith required prayers before each meal. Tom Stolhandske said in the early mid-50, “she walked around, and if she saw anybody acting up,…., she’d scoot behind them, grab them by the hair, pull their head back, and give them a real lecture.” TRY TO DO THAT IN 2023!
However, the dining Hall etiquette changed after Ma retired. Julius Whittier’s story of eating in the Moore-Hill dining hall as a recruit captures the humor in the shark frenzy that occurred every day a meal time.
In the book “Texas, our Texas, Julius says:
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“I didn’t have any idea what they were talking about. But the cozy and crowded atmosphere of the Moore hill dining hall was impressive, to say the least, and I found out what family-style dining meant. There I was, a rather small offensive lineman aspiring to sit and break bread with All-Americans and All-Southwest conference players.”
“As it turned out, family-style dining meant piping hot food served in big bowls… The rule set down by Coach Royal was, ‘take all the food you want, but eat all you take.’ Beyond this, the style of eating in the athletic dining hall had no relation to family-style dining.”
“Dining at the Texas training table is more accurately summed up by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Only the strongest survived. Simply getting to the table closest to the door of the kitchen took deft athletic skill and agility. Once at the table, your finer skills of manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination came into play. For the first five minutes at the table, there was more reaching and grabbing for those bowls of food than there was for the last plane out of Saigon in 1975.”
“It was strange for me to be one of only five blacks in the room who were not working in the kitchen. But apparently, because my recruiter from the team, Leon O’Neal, was well respected, several guys came over to where I was sitting and asked my name, welcomed me, and said they hoped I liked Texas.”
— 1969- Julius Whittier
Billy Dale says, “ Even with all the chaos all the athletes survived with full stomachs to fight another day for nourishment except on:
PORK CHOP NIGHT
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Pork chops caused a feeding freezing, with the large football players daring smaller teammates to “fork a chop.” “The smaller players managed to survive the horror of this ordeal, but for us, it was “vegetable night.”
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A celebration of his life is chronicled in the DKR North entrance
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Julius holding his Hall of Honor trophy.
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Julius Bronze statute at DKR
The link below is titled “Learning from Julius.” For me, rooming with Julius opened my eyes to issues I did not know existed in high school.
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Special Memories are deposited in the heart not the brain.
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Longhorn Ph.D. professor in Anthropology Chad Oliver says, “We all have our memories of college years, and they are an indelible part of our youth.”
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In the T.V. series “the Mad Men,” the marketing guru Don Draper is trying to procure an advertising contract for a new unnamed gadget. After Don’s presentation was complete, “Mad Men” won the Kodak contract, and the device had a name- THE CAROUSEL.
In the video below, Don Draper defines the Carousel as a nostalgic photo time machine that creates a
“twinge in your heart for more powerful than memory alone .”
Go to the 1:20 mark to listen to the marketing pitch. https://youtu.be/rq3n2sJ43Hg . It is a great video that will touch your heart.
This video delivers a profound message. Most special memories reside in the heart. While our memory may forget a special moment, our heart never does. The photos in the Kodak carousel is the trigger that nudges the memory into recall.
Below are several memories from twinge in the heart memories shared by Longhorn fans.
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Ed Gideon says:
I was in Austin for meetings and stayed at the Omni. This was in 2000. The team was staying at the Omni on Friday night before the game with Houston. The week before they had lost to Stanford mainly because of special teams play. I visited with Simms, Applewhite, Williams and some others and we talked about the Stanford game. They were embarrassed at their play.
The next morning I was checking out and moving to another hotel. They all saw me with my load of bags and equipment and they help me to my car and loaded it all up for me and guaranteed a win. Made me proud of the team.
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Here’s a pic from a 2016 hunt. Me with four wounded soldiers on our hunt. There are two snipers in this photo, two amputees, and two guys who were hurt pretty seriously by exploding ordinance. Look at those smiles. And I’m having more fun than any of them. Oh yeah, I’m the white-headed guy!!
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Two months ago, Pat Culpepper’s 100-year-old home and all his Longhorn memorabilia were lost in a devastating fire. Most will never be replaced, but some will.
Richard Hirsh sent TLSN the photo above of the enlargement made of a Jpeg image provided by TLSN. This is a carousel photo memory of Pat Culpepper that Mark Banton and Pam Hirsch managed to save and present to Pat.
Richard Hirsch’s comments are below:
To: williamdale@msn.com
Sun 2/26/2023 12:50 PM
“Mark Banton (Cleburne’s Ex), Pat Culpepper, and Pam Hirsch (also Cleburne’s ex) are in the photo.” We took the picture you sent out in a TLSN newsletter and enlarged it for Pat. Rebel Hirsch
—–Original Message—–
From: Richard Hirsch
Below is the link to Pat’s story.
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Longhorn L.J. Cohen shares a story about swimmer Hondo Crouch
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I had never heard of Hondo Crouch until he spoke at the Longhorn Spring Sports Banquet probably in 1967. I was mesmerized by this small, white-bearded man with a squeaky voice telling stories about his time swimming for UT, an All American, life during the Depression, living in the Hill Country.
I became a fan for life. He was a character. I never saw or heard of him again until the song Luckenbach, Texas came out in 1977. That’s when I learned Hondo bought the town in 1970.
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The Clown Prince is an important character in James A. Michener’s book “Texas.”
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A copy of Hondo’s business card was sent to TLSN by Eddie Phillips.
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Longhorn fan and Daily Texan sports writer Chris Barbee talks about the first years of women’s basketball
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CHRIS BARBEE 2/22/2021 says”
I covered the women’s basketball team for The Daily Texan during the 73-74 school year (coach was Rodney Page). The girls had to fight with intramural teams for practice time at Gregory Gym, they pooled their money for gasoline to fuel team members’ cars. Where possible they spent the night at team members’ homes and they borrowed their uniforms from the volleyball team. I loved and respected those young ladies and Coach Page.
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Rodney Page was honored at the Final 4 in San Antonio, Tx.
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Rodney with his franchise recruit Retha Swindell – to read about Retha’s story click on link below.
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For a time reference
Coach Jody Conradt followed Rodney as the head basketball coach. Coach Conradt built a college basketball empire in the 1980’s that began with the corner stone laid by Coach Rodney Page in the 1970’s .
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CATHY SUE MUNSON
Thanks so deeply for the outstanding article on Coach Bibb Falk. My dad, Charles Munson, played for and idolized his beloved Coach Falk. If I had been a boy, my name was to be “Bibb Falk Munson.” It was a delight and honor for my mother, Dorothy, and I to sit by Bibb in the stands as he was truly wonderfully a one-of-a-kind champion and an MVP legend. Hook Em Horns!
The first two photos below are of Charlie Munson. The third is of Coach Falk.
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One of TLSN’s 501 (c) (3) missions is to capture Carousel moments residing in your heart to share with posterity.
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If you choose, please email your Longhorn sports memories in text and jpeg format to Billydale1@gmail.com. Please also share your personal photo so readers can associate your story with your image.
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TLSN is not associated with the UT Athletics Department or any organization closely aligned with UT.
TLSN is an independent organization celebrating Longhorn Sports History and assisting qualifying Horns who need temporary financial assistance.
The TLSN website and newsletter are free, educational, historical, and insightful. Sharing Longhorn sports history through the eyes of those who created it.
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