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 have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players.
For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
He looked like he was going to score every time he touched the ball. They probably could have beaten us every time we played them.
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.
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.
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.