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The Texas Longhorns football program is a college football team that represents the University of Texas at Austin of the SEC Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had 28 head coaches since it started playing organized football in 1893 with the nickname Longhorns , although they played without a head coach in ...
William Frank Yeoman (December 26, 1927 – August 12, 2020) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 1962 to 1986. [1] In his tenure, he became the winningest coach in Houston Cougars football history, with an overall record of 160–108–8. [2]
Lester Michael Brumbelow (July 13, 1906 – August 11, 1977) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He played football and basketball for Texas Christian University from 1927 to 1929 and was the captain and most valuable player of the TCU Horned Frogs undefeated 1929 football team that won the school's first Southwest Conference championship.
Gary Davenport's ability to leaving a lasting impression on players and coaches is what separated him from the rest of the coaching world.
He resigned as the Longhorns football coach but stayed on as a very successful track coach. To this day, he is still the fifth most successful coach for the University of Texas with a record of 44–18–6. [6] After the resignation, Jack Chevigny, a national celebrity and ex-Notre Dame player, was hired in 1934.
In 1971, he served as the head football coach at TCU, where he compiled a 3–3–1 record, being credited for the 34–27 win that happened on the day of his death. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He died of a heart attack on the sidelines of a game against Baylor in Waco, Texas on October 30, 1971.
Mack Saxon Sr. (November 21, 1901 – May 8, 1949) was an American football and baseball player, coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track, and athletic administrator. A Texas native, Saxon was the quarterback of the 1925 and 1926 Texas Longhorns football teams and was selected as an all-conference player in both seasons.
Stephen Sarkisian (/ s ɑːr ˈ k iː ʒ ə n /; born March 8, 1974) [2] is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously was the head football coach at the University of Washington from 2009 to 2013 and the University of Southern California (USC) from 2014 to 2015.