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
We were so elated about winning the big game, and to have the President of the United States (Richard Nixon) come into your locker room ? if you're not impressed with that, hoss, you just can't be impressed.
I think Oklahoma feels a little more passionate about the game, ... They're a smaller state, with only the Red River separating us from them.
I thought it was a great pep talk. I wanted to hug him.
I was contacted a couple of times. But I didn't go for the interview (either time).
I used to care more about the score than I do now.
I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it.
That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.
We've had some good contests in the last year; at the Rose Bowl, and up there in Columbus, that's about as big as it gets.
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.
Earl blocked a punt the one time I put him on that unit, and then I took him off.
Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
There's lots of teams around the country Texas has never played, ... They just never played. There's no real reason to it.
I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.