Darrell Royal
Darrell Royal
Darrell K Royalwas an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas at Austin, compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships, 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 July 1924
CityHollis, OK
CountryUnited States of America
I'm as worked up and excited for this game as I can possibly be. But I know I'm not nearly as worked up as the coaching staff. This is a tremendous match, and I think everyone agrees it's the two best teams.
That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.
The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.
Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.
Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.
Thank goodness we've progressed to where it's no longer a factor that Vince Young is black. It used to be a big thing.
You'd think it ought to be every other year that one team wins in this series. But that's not the way it's worked out. Not in my time. Not as a player, not as a coach.
There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.