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71 Days 🤘

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Ray Dowdy #71 during goal-line stand series vs Arkansas in 1970

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RIP Ray...

Ray Dowdy, played on Texas' national championship team in 1970 and was an All-Southwest Conference defensive tackle.

 

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On 6/22/2024 at 7:13 AM, LTtxfan said:

'70 DAYS 🤘   

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That UCLA game - I was just a week or so shy of my 10th birthday - was so intense.  I remember turning to my dad and asking him as we got the ball back for one last chance, "Do you think we can do it?"  And he just said that all you can do is never quit.  Eddie Phillips threw the game-winning TD pass probably 30 seconds later.  
UCLA had this QB, Dennis Dummit, and he was the best quarterback that played against us until Jim Kelly and Miami came calling in 1981.  Dummit was short, which is why he never made any headway professionally, but he had a helluvan arm and was crazy mobile.  He singlehandedly almost beat us.

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I loved the early ‘70s as a child. Each time we entered Austin, from Dallas, we had to go by Rooster Andrews’ place to get our UT gear, as Dad wouldn’t spend a dime elsewhere.

I did get him to buy a pennant when we hosted Auburn and Bo Jackson. On the pennant said “War Eagle” which I constantly asked him why, as they were the Tigers? He just said watch the game!

Hook’em!!!

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59 minutes ago, msucolt45 said:

I loved the early ‘70s as a child. Each time we entered Austin, from Dallas, we had to go by Rooster Andrews’ place to get our UT gear, as Dad wouldn’t spend a dime elsewhere.

I did get him to buy a pennant when we hosted Auburn and Bo Jackson. On the pennant said “War Eagle” which I constantly asked him why, as they were the Tigers? He just said watch the game!

Hook’em!!!

Rooster was the best!  Lord knows how much coin I dropped there.

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9 hours ago, Vertigo said:

For my money, the best IOL we ever had.

A friend of mine who was a first team AA offensive lineman from Texas and had a long NFL career said that Dan was better than he was. Pretty fucking high praise.

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'68 🤘 

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Here comes the Wishbone!!! 🤘

Darrell Royal's use of the wishbone launched an offensive revolution that change college football. 

 

1. 1968 Texas

Head coach: Darrell Royal

Record: 9-1-1

So many college football innovations have started far outside the mainstream, in places like Carlisle, Pennsylvania, or Mount Pleasant, Iowa. But one of the single most influential innovations of all time took place at one of college football's power schools.

In essence, it doesn't sound like much of a tweak. Tasked with modernizing a stale offense, new coordinator Emory Bellard -- who, strangely enough, had been hired as the linebackers coach a year earlier -- basically went back in time to install the Split-T option offense as a way of getting more from a loaded backfield. Only, he had the fullback line up closer to the quarterback as a faster way of either hitting the hole on the dive portion of the option or fulfilling his blocking assignments. But somehow that little tweak, which made the formation look like a wishbone(or, as writer Mickey Herskowitz called it at the time, "a pulley-bone on a chicken"), led to a revolution.

Having won just 20 games in the three previous seasons, Texas began 1968 with a tie against Houston and a loss to Texas Tech. But backup quarterback James Street looked good in a comeback attempt against Tech; he was named the starter the next week, and Texas wouldn't lose again until 1971. They rolled through the rest of their 1968 slate, then went a perfect 11-0 in 1969, winning an all-time classic against Arkansas, then confirming a national title with a Cotton Bowl win over Notre Dame.

Because of Texas' blueblood profile, the Wishbone didn't have to work its way up from the lower levels of the sport. The other powers immediately understood that it could work for them. Alabama's Bear Bryant quickly adopted it following the Longhorns' 1969 success. So, too, did rival Oklahoma. And while the Horns would certainly reap the benefits of this offensive explosion -- they enjoyed four top-five finishes from 1968 to 1972, then another top-10 finish before Royal's retirement in 1976 -- Bama and OU would dominate the decade, with five national titles and 16 combined top-five finishes from 1971 to 1980. Never has an innovation caught on so quickly, and for the success it brought both Texas and others, the team that perfected the 'Bone should be considered the most influential team the sport has seen.

 

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Leonard Davis        70 DAYS 🤘

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Mean ass guard who made all-rookie, all-pro, 3x pro bowls, and made a SB appearance. One of the greatest Longhorns to ever play. Dude was the definition of a beast. 

One of my top 10 favorite Horns ever. 

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