Horns, Hogs, And Nixon Coming
On December 6, 1969, the Texas Longhorns and the Arkansas Razorbacks met in what many consider the game of the century. Both teams were undefeated; both featured devastating and innovative offenses; both boasted stingy defenses; and both were coached by superior tacticians and stirring motivators, Texas's Darrell Royal and Arkansas's Frank Broyles. Moreover, President Richard Nixon was on hand to present his own national championship plaque to the winners. Even if it had been just a game, it...
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On December 6, 1969, the Texas Longhorns and the Arkansas Razorbacks met in the game of the century. Both teams were undefeated; both featured devastating offenses; and both were coached by superior tacticians. One of the landmark college sporting events of all time.
AcknowledgmentsviPrologueI1Coach Broyles72Shift!133Coach Royal164Slick and Company285The Colonel, the Tailback, the Rhodes Scholar, and the Disillusioned Vet416Texan Razorbacks517... and Nixon Coming638The Good Die Young739Dixie's Last Stand8410Loose-Cannon Captains10111Coaches' Sons11112Hogs Up Front11913Horns Up Front12714Happy Thanksgiving13315New York, New York, and Points Elsewhere14016Defensing the Wishbone14517Defensing the Razorbacks15418Draft Lottery and the View from Oxford16219Turmoil and Tragedy16720Horns Getting Ready17921Hogs Getting Ready18922The President Has Landed19623Flagged!20524Back and Forth21925Going for Broke22926Right 53 Veer Pass23927To the Finish24728Presidential Addresses25829All Quiet26730Agony26931Ecstasy27232Courage27533Bourbon Street28334Requiem28735Horns Revisited29336Hogs Revisited302Afterword317Sources and Credits319Bibliography321Rosters and 1969 Results323Index329
\ San Antonio Express NewsIt is a great story, well told with more delicious details than a linebacker could tackle.\ \ \ \ \ Arkansas Democrat GazetteFrei does a masterful job of weaving in the historical significance of the turbulent times, including the Vietnam War protests, the military draft lottery and the civil rights movement that were so much a part of the campus life in that era...It's political football at its best...\ \ \ Denver PostDenver Post sports writer Terry Frei's book is much more than a recounting of the Texas-Arkansas 'Game of the Century' that earned the Longhorns the 1969 national college football championship. Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming is a timeline of one of the most tumultuous and important years in American history.\ \ \ \ \ Log Cabin DemocratA very good book.\ \ \ \ \ Times Record\ - John Brummett\ A very good book, Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming has been written not only about the game and the people, but its extraordinary time of war and racial struggle.\ \
