What, no topic on last of '41 team passing makes..

[Horn87]

post?? Julian Garrett died last week and we have no mention of him on this board??? My wife gave me as a Christmas present a pristine Life magazine from 11/41 (yes seventy yrs old) with him and his classmates on the cover--so got to make a shout out to him and his classmates---good story posted about this on the mis-Statesman--sorry no link, not good at that--regardless, thanks to him and his fellow teammates for putting The University on the map!! RIP to all of those gone before....

 

[Air Force Horn]

I had missed that. Thank you for the point out Horn87.

Here it is... Link

Hook 'Em

 

[watashi]

The team's back together now.

 

[horn4jc]

 

[Whiterock Horn]

If interested, here's a link to a thread from the fall discussing the 1941 team. Some interesting stuff.

1941

 

[darius]

Unless my math is off, Garrett was 23, almost 24 (birthday in early January '42) when he played for the Horns in the Fall of 1941. Seems a little old...not by Ron McKelvey standards, mind you...but a bit older than your average college senior in the pre-redshirt years. Yet, he was the last survivor of the '41 cover boys.

 

[WorsterMan]

Yes, I too missed it - RIP

 

[Skip]

How many survivors do the agros have that were at atm when they won their last National Championship.

 

[Statalyzer]

I hadn't heard about it until I saw this post, thanks for the update.

 

[Rex Kramer]

I am surprised no person is still alive from that team.

 

[VYFan]

Very strange coincidence: week before last on the exact day the AAS ran the story about the 1941 Life cover with the team on it, I was cleaning at my parents' house and found a copy of that Life edition. My father was a big UT fan from way back, and I assume he had the magazine from when it was first out. Gotta admit, that's a very strange coincidence, 70 years later.