This week’s story is dedicated to John Cotton, Austin College Class of 1984. After years in Boston, MA, your humble author returned home to Texas in 2000. Home to family, friends, climate, and the hopeful start of a new career in information technology (IT). While the private sector was initially appealing, my path would lead
Roo fans: This week’s story takes us back from West to East Texas, and is dedicated to my good friend and AC alum Mr. Cliff Brooks. Chapter 1: The Season Chapter 2: The Protest Chapter 3: Herbert on Fire Chapter 4: We’ll always have Paris Chapter 1: The Season Herbert Hollis (AC ’24) arrived on
Our next AC Roo story has been broken up into four chapters. This story is dedicated to my friend Mike Cloonan, Notre Dame alum, fan, and NBC producer of Notre Dame athletics. Welcome to AC Roo stories Mike! Chapter 1: The Coach Chapter 2: The Protégé Chapter 3: The Relationship Chapter 4: The Trip Chapter
Our next AC Roo story has been broken up into four chapters. Chapter 1: The Huskers Chapter 2: The Championship Chapter 3: The Call Chapter 4: The Aftermath Chapter 1: The Huskers All AC Roo stories should be dedicated to someone, right?. This one is dedicated to former AC Roo football player and Nebraska native
Our next AC story has four Chapters: Chapter 1: The Team Chapter 2: The Manager Chapter 3: The Player Chapter 4: The Series Chapter 1: The Team I’ve always been a Red Sox fan. A little bit during the Luis Tiant days. A bit more after Bucky Dent. And a lot after Buckner. I was
I promise. The AC Roos sports stories will move on at some point. To other decades. To other sports. To the women. But the early year baseball ones are simply too damn good. Tonight’s story is one of them. The Horns baseball win over the Roos in 1919 has already been the source of some
In an earlier story, I mentioned the AC baseball team traveling to Austin and losing to Bibb Falk and the Longhorns in 1919. Falk would then move on to the Chicago White Sox, where he replaced Shoeless Joe Jackson in left field and enjoyed an 11 year career in the majors. After retirement, Falk returned
Now this is how you take a story full circle. Our last tale involved the 1912 AC Roos crushing the Rice Owls 81-0, to date their worst defeat ever. While one sided, it is nowhere near the most lopsided victory in college football history. That honor goes to John Heisman, he of the Heisman Trophy.
President Kennedy challenged the nation to reach the moon in September 1962 at a speech at Rice stadium, and did so by asking why humankind would do anything challenging: “But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago,
For tonight’s post, we are back to AC baseball. In Texas, Longhorn baseball is royalty. 6 national championships, 35 CWS appearances, and 73 conference championships since 1911……….the last year the Horns fell to the Roos (see earlier post). AC continued to face the Horns well into the 1920s, but the results were not quite as
