Darrell Royal
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"Darrell K Royal" was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the 1956 Washington Huskies football team/University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas at Austin (1957–1976), compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won two NCAA Division I FBS national football championship/national championships (1963 and 1969), 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League for one season in 1953. Royal never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career. He played football at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 to 1949. Royal was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.

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Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

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I didn't feel safe until we led, 217, and had the ball on our last touchdown drive.

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I just enjoy being along for the ride.

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I'm not opposed to it. I just don't understand it.

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He's superb. Spectacular. Somebody said he runs with greased ease and I thought, 'What a perfect description of Vince Young.' It looks like his legs are greased, and his body is greased, and he's so fluid that he's just going to slip off the ones who are lucky enough to touch him.

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The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

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People were concerned about Vince's throwing motion. He's completed enough passes that I don't hear that anymore. He's got a strong arm. He can throw the deep pass without too much stepping forward.

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I enjoy baseball. I go to the home baseball games, I got to the home basketball games. I don't travel anymore except the Rose Bowl and the Oklahoma [football game].

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That's the game everybody still talks about. Even after all this time. It would be nice to win one again.

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