1935 • TEXAS 12, OKLAHOMA 7
I don't know if the following story is true. Still, it is articulated by author and former Longhorn football player R.E. Peppy Blount in his book titled Mamas, don't let your babies grow to play Football.
Regardless, the story is told as follows. Peppy states that the student manager's job at the Texas-OU game was to sell all the Longhorn players tickets in Dallas before the game. The managers did as instructed, but instead of giving the players, their money chose to gamble all the proceeds on Texas winning the game without telling the Longhorn players of their action. At halftime, Texas was down by one touchdown, and the managers were so stressed that they confessed what they did to one of the co-captains. Before the team was to leave the locker room, the captain asked the coaches to leave so the team could have a private meeting. The captain told the group the circumstances, and Blount says, "the first inclination on the team's part was to kill the student managers. Just as quickly, however, it was decided they had better get out there and play not only to win but to preserve their fortunes". Texas won. Gilbreath again scored the game-winner as Texas beat the first O.U. team coached by Biff Jones, who had been fired as LSU's coach. He refused to allow Gov. Huey Long to address the team at halftime.
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I don't know if the following story is true. Still, it is articulated by author and former Longhorn football player R.E. Peppy Blount in his book titled Mamas, don't let your babies grow to play Football.
Regardless, the story is told as follows. Peppy states that the student manager's job at the Texas-OU game was to sell all the Longhorn players tickets in Dallas before the game. The managers did as instructed, but instead of giving the players, their money chose to gamble all the proceeds on Texas winning the game without telling the Longhorn players of their action. At halftime, Texas was down by one touchdown, and the managers were so stressed that they confessed what they did to one of the co-captains. Before the team was to leave the locker room, the captain asked the coaches to leave so the team could have a private meeting. The captain told the group the circumstances, and Blount says, "the first inclination on the team's part was to kill the student managers. Just as quickly, however, it was decided they had better get out there and play not only to win but to preserve their fortunes". Texas won. Gilbreath again scored the game-winner as Texas beat the first O.U. team coached by Biff Jones, who had been fired as LSU's coach. He refused to allow Gov. Huey Long to address the team at halftime.
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