Shhhhh!!!!!! Nobody tell Arizona State! Nobody tell them what, Marc? Verde Dickey Sr. is a Roo legend. After his playing days at Austin College in the 1920s, Dickey Sr. entered the Texas coaching ranks. He retired decades later and was inducted into the Texas Coaches Hall of Fame. Verde Dickey Sr. was inducted into the
I don’t write about myself that much. But this year I’m making some exceptions. The AC “A” Board announced that I’ll be inducted into the Austin College (Sherman, TX) Hall of Honor in the summer of 2025. My sport is tennis, and Legends Weekend 2025 is igniting a bunch of Marc tennis stories. Here’s one:
I don’t write about myself that much. But this year I’m making some exceptions. The AC “A” Board announced that I’ll be inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor in the summer of 2025. My sport is tennis, and Legends Weekend 2025 is igniting a bunch of Marc tennis stories. Here’s one: Jon Stein
I don’t write about myself that much. But this year I’m making some exceptions. The AC “A” Board announced that I’ll be inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor in the summer of 2025. My sport is tennis, and Legends Weekend 2025 is igniting a bunch of Marc tennis stories. Here’s one: In 1990,
I don’t write about myself that much. But this year I’m making some exceptions. The AC “A” Board announced that I’ll be inducted into the Austin College Hall of Honor in the summer of 2025. My sport is tennis, and Legends Weekend 2025 is igniting a bunch of Marc tennis stories. Here’s one: I wrote
The UT-A&M rivalry returns today after a long break. We all get to welcome its long overdue arrival, with the hope that the game will flourish once again. This current hiatus, however, was not the first break in the rivalry. There was an earlier one, patched up by an Austin College Kangaroo. Robert Vinson (AC
College football finally arrived in Texas on November 30, 1893, when two schools took to the gridiron on Thanksgiving Day in the Lone Star State: (1) The Austin College Kangaroos, who defeated a visiting Dallas squad in Sherman. (2) The University of Texas Longhorns, who defeated a local Dallas squad in Dallas. In Aggieland, they
If you are a Kangaroo who reads a Roo Tale and texts Marc about it, well, you get a big Marc thumbs up. If you are a Kangaroo who earns SCAC Defensive Player of the Week honors in a game called by Kirk & Marc, well, you also get a Marc thumbs up. If you
A shout out to David Norman, whose number of years at AC as a student, coach, and Athletic Director total nearly 50. Norman retires this year. The Roos got the win this weekend, in the season’s final game with points scored totaling just over 50. I called the game with Kirk Hughes, snapping this picture
Hey, look at that photo. I took that photo in the Austin College archives on a visit with Clayton Oliphint a few years back. And the date! October 25th, 1924. That’s 100 years ago today. I first saw that football in 1988. Bob Mason had displayed it in Hughey Gym with pride, while regaling those
