LAN HEWLETT – FIRST ACADEMIC COUNSELOR IN THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE SPORTS When Coach Royal takes over, he has several immediate issues to overcome. In Jenna Hays McEachern’s book DKR- The Royal Scrapbook, she notes that Logan Wilson, the University of Texas president, informs Coach Royal that all freshmen will have to pass an entrance exam….
Where Have All the Footballs Gone? A Spoof James Cooke was a Longhorn manager from 1967-69. During those years, James committed one of the most heinous and felonious crimes in the history of college football. Now that the statute of limitations has expired, James admits that he stole the game ball used in the 1969…
William Edward “Rooster” Andrews Rooster was offered a scholarship at Texas A&M, but Kutner interceded and convinced Coach Bible to offer him a scholarship. After Rooster graduated, Coach Bible said he was “the best manager I ever saw.” Class of 1945Inducted into HOH 1966 FOOTBALL (1941-45, Manager, Kicker, Halfback)BASEBALL (1944, 1946, Manager) Standing 4″…
To add depth to the History And Evolution Of Conditioning And Weight Lifting for the Longhorns, some content and photos from the Stark Center site are used on the TLSN site. One of the Stark Centers’s directives is to study Kinesiology’s effect on athletes and sports. If you want more information about the Stark Center, …
1935-1938 Coach Chevigny was an innovator and proactive thinker, if not a good coach. He bought a field cover to protect the grass on the football field and started filming games for study purposes. 1935-1938 Under Chevigny, Texas had its first ‘training table” and athletic dorm with a “dorm mother” by the name of “Ma…
The Orange Jackets Since its inception in 1923, OJs have been actively serving both UT and the greater Austin community. Orange Jackets is the oldest honorary service organization at the University of Texas. The organization’s core tenets are excellence in scholarship, leadership, service, and community. Orange Jackets have been sporting this uniform since the UT…
“For other information on Support Staff please visit the panel to the left with subjects in red font.” Longhorn TRAINERS AND STUDENT MANAGERS 1893-1959 1893 First Longhorn football manager- Walter Crawford. Although UT began playing football in 1893, the first hired coach for the Horns was Reginald DeMerritt Wentworth who contracted to…
In 1937 the Silver Spurs were formed to take care of the Texas mascot. The organization did not have much to do for over a decade, as the team mascot was never defined. Currently, the Silver Spurs are very busy taking care of Bevo, who travels better than most students in a custom trailer driven…
DOC HENRY “Gunga Din” Henry Reeves attends to injured Longhorns. Long before the University of Texas at Austin hired Charlie Strong, even long before the first African-American athlete was admitted to the University of Texas at Austin, the university had Henry Reeves. From 1875 to 1915, Reeves was trainer, doctor and manager — generally the…
Reflection Point Lutcher Stark When you enter the stadium from the west side, you go into Bellmont Hall, named after our first AD. Theo Bellmont, one of the founders of the SWC, was only the second most influential person on the program from 1910-1935. http://www.starkcenter.org/message-from-the-director/ In the book “100 Things” author Jenna McEachern says, “Stark…