So i pick up my son from UT orientation...

[bcherry168]

LOL!  You were a year ahead of me, I was 1958.  I played freshman baseball as a center fielder - no schollie, just a walk on.  I never did get used to billy goat hill.  Had to quit for the same reason I had to quit a lot of things - I was too dumb to just get by in my studies.  I had to really work at it.

I got arrested as a 12 year when me and my buddies were sliding down the Drama bldg.'s enclosed circular slide escape.  We did this at night and the noise acted like a megaphone into the buliding.  Our fathers had to come get us.  Good times.

Blair - when I was a kid, I saw the Doaker just kill UT in Memorial stadium.  That was when SMU used to win without cheating.  Walker and Kyle Rote were my hero's in those days.  I'm betting your daddy was quite familiar with them. 

That must have been 1947,  so they just didn't kill Texas. The score was SMU 14, Texas 13. Doak caught the winning TD over Tom Landry, who was playing with a cast on his right hand. Instead of reaching with his right hand, he tried to go across with his left. Tough loss for Texas that day. Their only loss of the year. Texas went on to soundly defeat Alabama and their stud QB, Harry Gilmer, in the Sugar Bowl. Bobby Layne quarterbacked Texas that season.

I could tell you some stories about the recruitment of Doak, but this is not the venue. Suffice it to say that Rusty Russell stole him from us.

When my Mother died, I found an old 16mm reel of film of the 1950 Texas SMU game. Kyle Rote and Freddie Benners were outstanding. Couldn't save much of it, but what I did save showed that. Ranked #1 in the nation and favored. Texas beat them 23-20 and clinched the SWC championship. Their only loss during the season was to National Champion Oklahoma, 14-13. Dad retired the Wednesday after the SMU game and Ed Price coached the team in the Cotton Bowl, although Dad was there. Tennessee, coached by Bob Neyland and having a tailback named Johnny Majors beat Texas 20-16. Tennessee, with much of their team back, won the National Championship the next year.

Those were great years for Texas but it started to fall apart in 1954.

Then the Royal years started in 1957, my freshman year.

 

[bcherry168]

That must have been 1947,  so they just didn't kill Texas. The score was SMU 14, Texas 13. Doak caught the winning TD over Tom Landry, who was playing with a cast on his right hand. Instead of reaching with his right hand, he tried to go across with his left. Tough loss for Texas that day. Their only loss of the year. Texas went on to soundly defeat Alabama and their stud QB, Harry Gilmer, in the Sugar Bowl. Bobby Layne quarterbacked Texas that season.

I could tell you some stories about the recruitment of Doak, but this is not the venue. Suffice it to say that Rusty Russell stole him from us.

When my Mother died, I found an old 16mm reel of film of the 1950 Texas SMU game. Kyle Rote and Freddie Benners were outstanding. Couldn't save much of it, but what I did save showed that. Ranked #1 in the nation and favored. Texas beat them 23-20 and clinched the SWC championship. Their only loss during the season was to National Champion Oklahoma, 14-13. Dad retired the Wednesday after the SMU game and Ed Price coached the team in the Cotton Bowl, although Dad was there. Tennessee, coached by Bob Neyland and having a tailback named Johnny Majors beat Texas 20-16. Tennessee, with much of their team back, won the National Championship the next year.

Those were great years for Texas but it started to fall apart in 1954.

Then the Royal years started in 1957, my freshman year.

Sorry. The SMU game I described was I the Cotton Bowl in 1947. Doak and SMU beat Texas 21-6 the next year I Memorial Stadium. Texas went on to beat Georgia in the Orange Bowl 41-28. Other than the bowl game, nobody was very happy with that season, or the next. That 1948 game must have been the one you saw. That was Doak's senior year, I believe.

Getting old. LOL

 

[Randolph Duke]

That must have been 1947, so they just didn't kill Texas. The score was SMU 14, Texas 13. Doak caught the winning TD over Tom Landry, who was playing with a cast on his right hand. Instead of reaching with his right hand, he tried to go across with his left. Tough loss for Texas that day. Their only loss of the year. Texas went on to soundly defeat Alabama and their stud QB, Harry Gilmer, in the Sugar Bowl. Bobby Layne quarterbacked Texas that season.

I could tell you some stories about the recruitment of Doak, but this is not the venue. Suffice it to say that Rusty Russell stole him from us.

When my Mother died, I found an old 16mm reel of film of the 1950 Texas SMU game. Kyle Rote and Freddie Benners were outstanding. Couldn't save much of it, but what I did save showed that. Ranked #1 in the nation and favored. Texas beat them 23-20 and clinched the SWC championship. Their only loss during the season was to National Champion Oklahoma, 14-13. Dad retired the Wednesday after the SMU game and Ed Price coached the team in the Cotton Bowl, although Dad was there. Tennessee, coached by Bob Neyland and having a tailback named Johnny Majors beat Texas 20-16. Tennessee, with much of their team back, won the National Championship the next year.

Those were great years for Texas but it started to fall apart in 1954.

Then the Royal years started in 1957, my freshman year.

Here is a link to some footage of the 1951 Texas/Tennessee Cotton Bowl: https://archive.org/details/CEP480

 

[bcherry168]

Here is a link to some footage of the 1951 Texas/Tennessee Cotton Bowl: https://archive.org/details/CEP480

Thanks for posting that. I was in the stands that day at the Cotton Bowl. It was chilly and misty....not a good day for football. Tennessee's single wing was tough to defend, and Texas QB Ben Tompkins did not have his best day.

It was a tough, hard fought game between two evenly matched teams. As usual it came down to turnovers.

 

[Gus McCrea]

Fall of 1977. By mid-season Texas was rolling and ranked #1. Dramatic, close wins over great OU and

Arkansas teams in back to back away games.  Earl was having a tremendous Sr. year that culminated

in his winning the Heisman.  After every Saturday's glorious football victory, it was party time on The Drag

for hours!  It was big fun and a large time...for many weeks. I was there for all of it...it was my Sr. year at UT.

My frosh year.

GM

 

[Matt Cotcher]

My frosh year.

GM

Good to see you posting here, Gus!

 

[Aaron Carrara]

Since we're talking UT and nostalgia, what are some of the concerts you guys saw at the Cactus Cafe?

Last one I saw there was David Garza back in the mid 90's.

Most of the time we were at the Black Cat lounge on 6th eating free boiled hot dogs and drinking dollar PBRs or Pearls.

 

[doc longhorn]

Since we're talking UT and nostalgia, what are some of the concerts you guys saw at the Cactus Cafe?

Last one I saw there was David Garza back in the mid 90's.

Most of the time we were at the Black Cat lounge on 6th eating free boiled hot dogs and drinking dollar PBRs or Pearls.

You are such a baby.  I watched The Kingston Trio singing on the stage in the drama building.  "Hang down your head, Tom Dooley".  

 

[Etex Horn]

I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd (damn, that's hard to spell) at Memorial Auditorium in Austin in 1975 or early 1976.  Not 

the Cactus Cafe, but I wanted to chime in as to great concerts attended while I was at UT. I saw them again

on July 4, 1977, in Tulsa Oklahoma...along with Willie Nelson and other great bands. Glad I saw Skynyrd live

in July 1977 because only four months later, their plane crashed and Ronnie Van Zant was killed. The "Free

Bird" would never soar quite so high again, sadly.   

 

[Etex Horn]

1977...what a fine year in my life. I attended the "Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic" in July that year, in Tulsa,

Oklahoma. Saw Willie and the boys...last band was Lynyrd Skynyrd. Great concert! That next football season,

UT was ranked #1 and we partied on The Drag every Saturday night...late!  By the end of the year...Texas 

lost to Notre Dame for the NC...huge disappointment, HUGE. But, as consolation for me, for Christmas, my

dad got me two tickets for the Super Bowl in New Orleans, where I got to watch Dallas beat Denver 27-12.

All in all, not a bad year for me! 

Longhorns and Cowboys were great that year!

 

[Sirhornsalot]

You are such a baby.  I watched The Kingston Trio singing on the stage in the drama buildilg.  "Hang down your head, Tom Dooley".  

lol The Kingston Trio. . . you had to dust off the cobb webs for that one .lol

 

[armadillo slim]

lol The Kingston Trio. . . you had to dust off the cobb webs for that one .lol

Hey, that's my all time favorite group so cool it with the insults. Saw them at gregory gym in the early 60s.

Where have all the flowers gone topped the charts at one point.

Scotch and soda, MTA, Tom Dooley, great songs

 

[doc longhorn]

Hey, that's my all time favorite group so cool it with the insults. Saw them at gregory gym in the early 60s.

Where have all the flowers gone topped the charts at one point.

Scotch and soda, MTA, Tom Dooley, great songs

Yeah, buddy.  Blair will remember this.

All us teenagers used to go that place in east Austin (that I can never remember).  This was where the black entertainers played because Austin was still basically segregated.  I sat in the front row and watched the likes of Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Drifters, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Lloyd Price.  And these are just a few.

 

[bcherry168]

Yeah, buddy.  Blair will remember this.

All us teenagers used to go that place in east Austin (that I can never remember).  This was where the black entertainers played because Austin was still basically segregated.  I sat in the front row and watched the likes of Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Drifters, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Lloyd Price.  And these are just a few.

Charlie's Playhouse? Went there a number of times.

 

[java]

1977...what a fine year in my life. I attended the "Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic" in July that year, in Tulsa,

Oklahoma. Saw Willie and the boys...last band was Lynyrd Skynyrd. Great concert! That next football season,

UT was ranked #1 and we partied on The Drag every Saturday night...late!  By the end of the year...Texas 

lost to Notre Dame for the NC...huge disappointment, HUGE. But, as consolation for me, for Christmas, my

dad got me two tickets for the Super Bowl in New Orleans, where I got to watch Dallas beat Denver 27-12.

All in all, not a bad year for me! 

Longhorns and Cowboys were great that year!

Loved the bumper sticker, "Cowboys and Longhorns, no place but Texas."

 

[armadillo slim]

Charlie's Playhouse? Went there a number of times.

Charlie's Playhouse indeed.  i went there too, but that was on the ragged edge of a very rough part of town.  the bigun's ate the little'uns over there most saturday nights.  

 

[Etex Horn]

Loved the bumper sticker, "Cowboys and Longhorns, no place but Texas."

I had that very bumper sticker on the back of my car while attending UT!

I drove a lowly Volkswagen, but it got me through my college years...great gas

mileage, it provided. In my senior year, I manned up and bought a 1978 TransAm.

.400 engine, it would top out at 145 mph. And the TransAm WAS a chick magnet...

I wasn't, sadly...but that car sure was.

Good times, good memories. Now I'm old and fat...but I definitely had great times

in my UT years. Wish I had finished with a better GPA....SIGH 

 

[MikeV73]

I had that very bumper sticker on the back of my car while attending UT!

I drove a lowly Volkswagen, but it got me through my college years...great gas

mileage, it provided. In my senior year, I manned up and bought a 1978 TransAm.

.400 engine, it would top out at 145 mph. And the TransAm WAS a chick magnet...

I wasn't, sadly...but that car sure was.

Good times, good memories. Now I'm old and fat...but I definitely had great times

in my UT years. Wish I had finished with a better GPA....SIGH

So you were the third wheel during your Trans Am's dates with all of the hot coeds? Suddenly Knight Rider just popped into my head.

 

[bcherry168]

Charlie's Playhouse indeed.  i went there too, but that was on the ragged edge of a very rough part of town.  the bigun's ate the little'uns over there most saturday nights.  

I could tell a story or two, but won't. LOL