FOXSW to show 1963 Football Highlights!

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Bill in Sinton

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It will be this coming Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It is called SWC Legends and this one features the 1963 football season highlights and includes the UT vs Rice, Baylor, A&M and the Cotton Bowl game against Navy. You will get to see Duke Carlisle's great pass interception that cinched the game against Baylor.
The program is only 30 minutes long and you can see it Sunday at 4:30 P.M., Monday at 7 P.M. or Tuesday at 12 P.M.
Enjoy!

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I'm going to be watching this! Thanks Bill.
I still have my tickets to the Rice and Navy games from that season.
Didn't make the Baylor game, one of the all-time great UT football contests.
 
Interesting thing I spotted from this video in the 1963 Texas-Texas A&M game. The Aggies changed jerseys at halftime. In the first half they are wearing maroon shirts with white shoulder hoops over the pads. Later, they are wearing maroon jerseys with the Northwestern stripe pattern and TV numerals.

I'm betting that they changed because of the water and mud at Kyle that day. Still, I've never known a team to do that before.
 
Do ya think they will still show it tomorrow night?

I was at the Cotton Bowl game vs Navy in January '64. Later worked with Staubach in Dallas in the 70's in real estate. Used to love to bring up that game in a conversation. He would just grin.
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Good stuff. Makes you wonder why Duke Carlisle doesn't get the recognition our other national champion QBs Street and VY get. His interception playing DB against Baylor saved that game.

BTW, Tommy Ford used to teach a "basics of football" or something like that class at Texas in the mid 80s. I heard it was pretty easy.
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The next series on this channel will cover the 1966 season (I think) so check your tv guide on this channel for the other seasons that will be shown.
Duke doesn't get the recognition he deserves and he didn't even then. He was a good quarterback and played great defense. At that time Coach Royal wanted his starting quarterbacks to be seniors so he became a full time QB in the 1963 year. He was known as a quarterback who could run a little, pass a little, but do what it took to beat you. After the Oklahoma game that UT won 28 to 7 a sportswriter commented "He's the best quarterback in the country yet he won't even make all-conference."
 
I watched the show, and wished they would have shown Duke's interception in slo-mo, as Elkins hands were inches from tieing the score with a TD reception. That is one of the great individual plays in UT history, and preserved the march to our first national championship.
I had recalled Phil Harris as being more open on those two long TD passes in the Cotton Bowl, but actually they were somewhat lucky to be receptions, especially the first one.
 
One play I don't think was shown that another poster pointed out in another thread was when Elkins got wide open for a long pass but Scott Appleton rushed Trull and he had to hurry the pass and overthrew Elkins.
I will rewatch the show again because he said we had four very close games during the regular season but to me there were five. Three of the ones highlighed were against Baylor where we won 7 to 0, Rice where we won 10 to 6 and of course against A&M where we came from behind to win 15 to 13. I am not sure which one of the other two were overlooked but we had tough games against Arkansas that we won 17 to 13 and against SMU what we won 17 to 12.
 
The 1963 Texas football seniors were known as Carlisle's Crowd. This included the great defensive Outland Trophy winner Scott Appleton, Tony Cosby the kicker, Tommy Ford the running back and Sandy Sands the end just to name a few. Freshmen couldn't play varsity then so the players only had three years of eligibility. Duke's crowd had three great years (1961 to 1963) that they played and they were 30-2-1. They finished in the top five teams in the country in 1961 and 1962 and were National Champions in 1963.
 
The announcer called Knox Nunleys' name... a pass play as I recall from the show.

Will one of you guys give your memory or info on him? I know little of his career at UT as I was in elementary school in '63.

But, his mom was a elementary school teacher at that time - her class was adjacent to mine in Midland back then.
 
His name was Nunnally.
He was a tough customer, as you pretty much had to be to play for Darrell Royal.
As I remember, he went into law (Vinson, Elkins?) and became a judge.
 
Bill
I love Sinton
Way back when Port A was just an island, Sinton was the last pit stop on the way to the ferry. Never forgot how friendly the people were or happily they accepted my money!
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