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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.
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