Texas Longhorns: Where Have You Gone?
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Book Description
With three national championships, more than 80 All-American and nearly 800 victories, the University of Texas has a football history and tradition among the richest in the nation. This book offers a look at a small slice of that history and tradition, with updates on the lives of those who made it possible. Among these are: Johnny Treadwell, whose "Now we've got 'em where we want 'em" challenge became the emblem of the Darrell Royal teams of the early 1960s; former head coach David McWilliams, whose departure from the coaching ranks may have eventually helped to save his life; Duke Carlisle, the star of three crucial showdowns in a national championship season, now enjoying life in the oil business in Mississippi; Julius Whittier, UT's first black football letterman, who finished with two degrees and has been a successful Dallas attorney for 20 years: Ben Tompkins, who played baseball with Satchel Paige, spent 20 years as an NFL game official, and is still practicing law at 75; T Jones enshrined in the Hall of Honor at both UT and Texas Tech; Ben Procter, who held a UT receiving record for 40 years still lives in house he bought from Lyndon Johnson's sister, and is finishing up the second volume of a biography of William Randolph Hearst; Alan Lowry, who answers the gnawing question about whether he stepped out of bounds on the run that beat Alabama in the Cotton Bowl; James Saxton, the swift All-American who survived a near-fatal illness; Roosevelt Leaks, who after a lengthy NFL career still spends time on the family farm where he grew up; the Campbell twins, who as the sons of defensive coordinator "Iron Mike" Campbell, willed themselves into becoming starters on a nationalchampionship team; Randy Peschel, the man who caught Right 53 Veer Pass; James Street, the man who threw it; and former Outland winner Scott Appleton, who destroyed his life with alcohol and then rebuilt it, becoming a minister who touched countless lives before his death.
About the Author
Whit Canning is a veteran writer whose career began in 1968 at the Fort Worth Press, where he became an award-winning police reporter. Over the years he has worked in a variety of capacities, writing columns, features, profiles, and news stories on sports, crime, politics, culture, and social issues, in addition to book reviews. His subjects have included public figures, rodeo clowns, death row inmates, and beauty queens. His work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Houston Post, Fort Worth Press, Fort Worth Observer, Fort Worth Star- Telegram, San Antonio Express-News, Sport Magazine, Inside Sports, Texas Sports, Texas Monthly, and Texas Football Magazine, in addition to dozens of syndicated outlets. He has also written two books and contributed to several others.
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