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Decades after his last game in 1976, Darrell K Royal remains “The Coach,” the winningest football coach in University of Texas history. The driving force behind eleven Southwest Conference and three national championships, winner of Coach of the Year and Coach of the Decade awards, and honored namesake of the Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Royal is still revered as “a coach who would rather lose a game than engage in unsportsmanlike tactics; who would neither make excuses for losing nor brag about winning; and who by his own example contributes to the building of stalwart character in men,” in the words of the City of Austin’s “Darrell Royal Day” proclamation. DKR offers an intimate, insider’s view of the private life of the man behind the legend through an extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, football ephemera, recollections, and “Royalisms” lovingly preserved by Royal’s wife of more than sixty-five years, Edith. This irreplaceable family archive offers revealing snapshots of Royal’s entire life, from his impoverished youth in Oklahoma, through his courtship of Edith and his glory days as a player at Oklahoma and a coach at Texas, to his retirement career as a goodwill ambassador for the university. Accompanying the images are moving recollections from fellow coaches and former players, family members, and friends who testify to Royal’s honesty and integrity and the transformative effect that his character has had on the legions of people whose lives he has touched.

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Author:   Jenna Hays McEachern ,  Edith Royal
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 26.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 30.50cm
Weight:   1.674kg
ISBN:  

9780292704930

ISBN 10:   0292704933
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Ultimate Compliment Chapter 2: Favorite Son Chapter 3: A Little Country-Town Courtship Chapter 4: Off with One Helluva Roar Chapter 5: He Kicks with His Head Chapter 6: Born to Coach Chapter 7: Gone to Texas Chapter 8: Coach Royal's Wife Chapter 9: The Flip-Flop Chapter 10: We're Ready Chapter 11: Wake-Up Call Chapter 12: The Wishbone Chapter 13: Philosophy Chapter 14: Beginning of the End Chapter 15: OU Revisited Chapter 16: Lessons from the Coach Chapter 17: Friends and Other Diversions Chapter 18: Settin' His Bucket Down Chapter 19: The Pope of Austin Chapter 20: The Fourth Quarter Appendix A: Royal as a Sooner, Longhorn, and Honoree Appendix B: Royalisms Appendix C: Letters to the Coach Selected Sources

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Jenna Hays McEachern is the author of 100 Things Longhorn Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. She edited One Heartbeat: A Philosophy of Teamwork, Life, and Leadership and One Heartbeat II: The Road to the National Championship, both written by Mack Brown and Bill Little. McEachern and Little also coedited What It Means to Be a Longhorn, a compilation of oral histories by Darrell Royal and other Texas football greats.

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