College football has arrived, and the sport is celebrating a number of anniversaries this year. 2019 marks the official 150th birthday of the sport, although an old Roo Tale preview makes it clear that the Princeton-Rutgers game of 1869 was probably soccer. The true birth of college football can be found at Tufts, on of
My lovely wife Dianne is a Longhorn. I took her to an Austin College football game for the first time about 20 years ago. Her first impression? “Where the heck is the band?” Haha. Come on now hon. This ain’t the 40 acres with its “Showband of the Southwest.” This is Division 3 my love.
Wow! Check out this post and look at that photo. There’s an incredible soccer player in that photo. Accolades, honors, records? Yup, she won ’em. She’s being honored this summer for those legendary accomplishment. What a pic! Oh yeah, Abby Wambach is in it as well. I hear she’s pretty good too. See you at
All Roos have their Roo groups. One of mine meets this weekend. I won’t be able to make it, in part because of bad timing. The reunion is sandwiched between family vacation and Bastille Day (July 14th). UT System Information Technology (I.T.) work absolutely requires my presence on July 14th; that day for me is
This summer’s Roo writing will be all about Galveston, with previews on Saturdays and a Roo Tale around Labor Day. But before we head south to the Gulf of Mexico, we’ll take a short diversion today to the east. To New York. There was a time two years ago when Dianne’s & my daughter simply
The story of Austin College is survival. The Texas landscape is littered with failed private institutions of higher education. It’s a miracle that AC is not one of them. AC is one of only two colleges (Baylor the other) who trace their origin during the antebellum period in Texas and survived continuously through Civil War
The Austin College campus dates back to 1876, when President Luckett chose Sherman, TX as the school’s new home. Sherman, however, is not the Texas birthplace of AC. The school was founded in Huntsville, TX in 1849. But really, even Huntsville is not the location where Austin College was born. Maybe Austin, TX? When the
The Parrishes are headed to Hamilton! Dianne and I have been watching you all rant and rave about it for years. Unlike many of you, we’ve not yet seen the performance. But we’ll join you soon enough. We’ll be catching the show in Austin on Sunday; thank you to Linda & Paul Parrish for this
I was 11 years old in 1981, and around that time got an invitation to the coolest birthday party. David Groff’s birthday would be held at Kyle Field, and we were all gonna play football. What do I remember about that day? The memories are increasingly vague. The field was wet, Rob Prall scored a
All AC grads have their Roo alumni “think tank” groups that get together periodically. I certainly have my own. One of them includes a fella named Pat Abernathey. Today, Pat lives in Boulder, CO where he works and raises a family. He’s also a Colorado High School coach in the sport of rugby. Back in
