A salute to the military veterans of Texas Longhorns football

Here’s a list of Longhorn football lettermen known to have served in the military, from the Spanish-American War to the wars of the 21st century.

By Jonathan Wells@jwells1982 Updated Nov 11, 2022, 11:17am CST

 Ben “Stookie” Allen (1924) — Corsicana — WWII, Army

Leroy Anderson (1944) — Wilmot, Wisconsin — Navy

Kenneth Anglin (1952) — Groom — Korean War, Marines

Judson Atchison (1935-37) — Baird — WWII

Thomas Adam Austin (1916) — Laredo — Army colonel; later began the ROTC program at Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama

Robert Baldridge (1931) — Clifton — WWII

John Gaddis Bass (1913) — Houston — WWI

James Henry “Jack” Beall, Jr. (1916) — Sweetwater — WWI, Army

Maxie Bell (1944-45) — Vernon — Navy

Kearie Lee “K.L.” Berry (1912, 14-15, 24) — Denton — Army; WWII, survived the Bataan Death March at age 48 and spent over 3 years in a prisoner of war camp, retired from active duty as a Brigadier General

Cade Bethea (1897-99) — Seven Oaks — Spanish-American War

Dana X. Bible (head football coach 1937-46) — Jefferson City, Tennessee — WWI, Air Corps

Robert Blaine (1915-16, 19) — Houston — Army

William Bartlett Blocker (1904-05) — San Antonio — WWI

Ralph “Peppy” Blount (1945, 47-48) — Big Spring — WWII, Army Air Corps

Edwin Bluestein (1922-23) — Port Arthur — WWI, Navy

Daniel Philip “Phil” Bolin (1943-44) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Navy

Nate Boyer (2012-14) — El Cerrito, California — Army, Green Berets; Iraq, Afghanistan

Edward Young “E.Y.” Boynton (1916) — Waco — WWI, Army

Dewey Bradford (1917) — Austin — WWI, Marines

Fred Brechtel (1945) — New Orleans, Louisiana — Navy

Wilson Brennan (1917-19) — Denison — WWI, Army

Clinton Giddings Brown (1901) — San Antonio — WWI

Shelby Buck (1938-39) — Crosbyton — WWII, Royal Canadian Air Force and U.S. Air Force; killed in a plane crash in England in May 1943

Max Bumgardner (1942, 46-47) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Army Corps of Engineers

Edmond Franklin Butler (1943) — Lubbock — Navy

Jerome Buxkemper (1945) — Ballinger — Teacher and coach at Department of Defense Dependents schools in Japan and Germany

James Ross Callahan (1943) — Wink — Navy

Paul Campbell (1948-49) — Breckenridge — WWII, Army Air Corps

Jim Canady (1943, 46-47) — Austin — WWII, Navy

David C. “Bobby” Cannon (1919) — Crockett— Navy

Henry James Casey (1916) — Sherman — WWI artillery captain

John Edward “Jack” Chevigny (head football coach, 1934-36) — Hammond, Indiana — Army, Marine Corps; killed at the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945

James Stewart Clarke (1896-97) — Boerne — Army