Alcalde 27th Out video

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Pretty sure Allen and Westlake and about 27 other HS stadiums are larger.

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Sphinx quoted from a map “circa 1967” and posted a photo. I replied to the quote from the map and pointed out the house on the photo.

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I think UT’s had some penis enlargement surgery since that photo as well. I was just amused at how small the stadium was then.

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Trying to remember how many it seated when I was a kid. No double decks then, for sure.

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I got there in 74. It had already added upper decks for long enough for it not to be noteworthy.

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Wasn’t '68 a national championship year? Wasn’t that the year of the big game with Arkansas? I guess I should look it up.

ETA: I’m a year off for the game of the Century, '69.

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Pretty sure the first upper deck went in between the 69 and 70 seasons. I recall my dad telling the story that at the pep rally before the Game of the Century, knowing all the old wooden bleachers were coming out, they lit a “1” on fire in the seats for the pep rally.

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69 was the Arkansas/undefeated national championship
70 was the national championship where the winning streak was finally broken in the Cotton Bowl

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  • 1971 – Upper deck added to the west side adding 15,990 seats, raising seating capacity to 77,809; General contractor for this work was a joint venture of two companies: Darragh & Lyda Inc. of San Antonio and H. A. Lott, Inc. of Houston.

Upper deck on east side was 1998.

From a Wikipedia article

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Loved the article and the video Jim.

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Thank you.

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I would have guessed by appearance that West upper deck held more than 16K seats. It seems so huge.
I haven’t been to stadium in years now. I am wondering if the north end zone entrance still has that giant university seal on the gate? My family’s company manufactured that.

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Horns, Hogs, & Nixon Coming by Terry Frei is a great accounting of the Game Of The Century as well as a review of the Social climate in the country at that time.

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The northeast gate has the big seal. I don’t know if that’s the original seal from the old NEZ or just a new one that looks the same.

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Its original location is now the UT sports hall of fame with a glass front.

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There is a research center/museum on the 5th floor on that side named after Lutcher Stark and founded by the late Dr. Terry Todd. His wife Jan is Executive Director, and it has a decent collection of sports archives there. My friend Gordon Lakey recently donated his collection of 40 years of The Sporting News, and I attended the donation presentation.

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That’s a fantastic read, btw.

My late father, UT ‘60, had a healthy disdain for not only aggy and the land thieves/dirt-burglars/okie, but especially the pig-fornicators.

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That is a great book.

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Thanks Jim

I enjoyed this very much ( sorry about your misfortune all those years ago)

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Thanks, Jim. Tough ending for sure.

PS If you read the 27th Out story here on OWA or the article in The Alcalde, I think you’d see I have developed a healthy perspective about the game. I would be lying if I said the perspective came quickly or easily. Our team’s loss devastated me, and even though I was not the losing pitcher, so fucking what? I was one strike away from the College World Series for the Longhorns, I had him 0-2 before the damn swinging bunt, and I had to deal with a feeling of guilt I had let my teammates down in some way. I worked through the irrational nagging guilt eventually and arrived at the place I am now, which the article and the video show (I hope).

Thanks again. Glad you liked it.

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