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	Darrell Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal played running back at the University of Oklahoma under his mentor, the great Sooner coach Bud Wilkinson, and served as an assistant coach at North Carolina State, Tulsa and Mississippi State.
		With Royal at the helm, UT won three national championships (1963, 1969, and 1970), won or shared 11 Southwest Conference championships, and made 16 bowl appearances.
		Royal was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darrell_Royal (365 words)

	Darrell K Royal Appreciation Page.
		Royal assumed the dual role of athletics director and head football coach in 1962, positions he held for 14 years.
		Royal still holds records -- or the longest punt return (96 yards) and the most pass interceptions in four years (17) -- at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.
		Royal and his wife, Edith, regularly visited with LBJ and Lady Bird in the White House, on the Johnson Ranch, and in Acapulco.
	www.darrellroyal.org (639 words)

	Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, USA is home to The University of Texas at Austin Longhorn football team.
		The current official stadium capacity is 80,082, but an attendance record of 84,082 people occurred in 1999 during a game against the University of Nebraska.
		The University of Texas honored legendary football coach Darrell K. Royal in 1996 by officially naming the stadium after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darrell_K._Royal-Texas_Memorial_Stadium (751 words)

	KERA HOSTS DINNER WITH FOOTBALL LEGEND DARRELL ROYAL ON EVE OF TEXAS-OU GAME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Coach Royal, who led the University of Texas Longhorns to three national football championships, will be the guest of honor during a reception and four-course dinner at Maguire's M Grill and Tap in Dallas from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
		Royal is considered by many to be Texas' most legendary coach.
		Royal took on the dual role of athletics director and head football coach for the University of Texas in 1962 and held both positions for 14 years.
	www.kera.org /about/pressroom/releases/20030929royal.html (239 words)

	The Daily Texan
		Royal coached the Longhorns from 1957 to 1976 compiling a 167-47-5 record including a 12-7-1 record against Oklahoma.
		Royal didn't mind that his competition was getting a good look at his offense.
		While a player at Oklahoma, Royal was named All-American at both quarterback and defensive back, and his Longhorns won 11 SWC titles and finished 11 seasons ranked in the top 10.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2001/10/05/Sports/Royal.Memories-504201.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (401 words)

	College Football Hall of Fame
		Darrell Royal was a quarterback at Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson between 1946 and 1949, winning All-America honors in 1949.
		Royal is credited with two innovations that set Texas out in front of the rest of the nation in offensive strategy: his "Flip-Flop Winged-T" in 1962 and the Wishbone in 1968.
		Royal was twice named Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association, and won the same distinction twice from the Football Writers of America.
	collegefootball.org /famersearch.php?id=60010 (215 words)

	ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - Chat-1027
		Royal took over the Longhorns in 1957 and led them team to a 167-47-5 record over 20 seasons.
		Darrell Royal: The wishbone was a great way to move the ball.
		Darrell Royal: My guess is it will stand a chance to be a high-scoring game but most bowl games are not.
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatESPN?event_id=1027 (1888 words)

	NISOD: About Darrell K. Royal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the most successful coaches in college football, Royal led the Longhorns to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles during his 20 years (1956-1976) as UT's head coach.
		From 1976 to 1980, Coach Royal continued at the University as Athletic Director ; and in 1996, UT recognized his unrivalled contribution to Longhorn football when it designated Memorial Stadium the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in his honor.
		Since his retirement, Darrell Royal serves as Special Assistant to the President of The University of Texas.
	www.nisod.org /conference/ponies/royal_bio.htm (135 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Royal is one of the top five all-time coaches in history.
		But Royal’s flair for the dramatic is what truly separated the charismatic coach, whether it was his speechmaking or play-calling.
		Stoops is more of the Royal mold for plucking out the right play at just the right time while Brown is of the Bowden ilk, two good-ol’-boy coaches who hire great assistants and overwhelm their opponents with talent and speed.
	nwanews.com /bcdr/Sports/29516 (1119 words)

	The WebTexan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Royal, who coached the Longhorn football team from 1957 to 1976, led the team to 11 Southwest Conference titles, 10 Cotton Bowl wins and three national championships.
		Royal said the renaming surpassed even his national championship titles as the highlight of his career.
		Veterans have complained that the addition of Royal's name to Memorial Stadium is a discredit to Americans who died in wars.
	stumedia.tsp.utexas.edu /centennial/01109908_s01_Stadium.html (485 words)

	The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans: Darrell Royal
		The youngest of six children, Darrell Royal was born in 1924 in Hollis, Oklahoma.
		Royal moved with his family to California at the age of 14.
		Royal is credited with "flip-flop" to the winged-T, allowing the offense to flip right or left.
	www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=ROY96 (553 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: DARRELL K. ROYAL-TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM
		Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, formerly Texas Memorial Stadium, has been the home of University of Texas football and track teams since 1924.
		The success of the Longhorn football program under Darrell Royal, including the university's first national championship in 1963, led to more frequent sellouts and questions about whether Texas Memorial Stadium was obsolete.
		Royal Athletic Center was completed at the south end of the stadium in 1986 at a cost of $7 million.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/DD/xvd1.html (1048 words)

	Darrell Royal
		In 1963, the legendary Coach Darrell Royal led his University of Texas Longhorn football players to the state of Texas' first National Championship.
		THE STORY OF DARRELL ROYAL is the first in a series of Hall of Legends Sports documentaries profiling the greatest coaching legends from around the world of college sports.
		So much of Darrell's career spanned a time in this country when we were battling social turmoil at home and a war overseas.
	www.halloflegends.com /pages/darrell.html (531 words)

	Hall of Fame Coach Darrell Royal Receives 2003 Spirit of Youth Award - San Antonio - Locations - About Us - Girls and ...
		College Football Hall of Fame and three-time National Champion coach Darrell Royal was honored October 1 at the 2003 Girls and Boys Town of San Antonio Spirit of Youth Gala for his outstanding achievements and commitment to youth.
		As an integral part of its mission to change the way America cares for her at-risk children, Girls and Boys Town’s national sites seek to recognize and honor those individuals whose works, words, actions or example have had a profoundly positive impact on the lives and dreams of America’s youth.
		In his more than 20 years as head coach, Royal’s Texas Longhorns compiled the best record in the nation over that period, winning three national championships and 11 Southwest Conference championships, and finishing in the top 10 nationally 11 times.
	www.girlsandboystown.org /aboutus/locations/sanantonio/DarrellRoyal.asp (569 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Columns: Coach's Corner
		The arrival of Darrell Royal in 1957 seems to mark the genesis of Longhorn Fan.
		Coach Royal began his 19-year tenure at the dawn of today's mass media and the start of a massive population influx to the state.
		Longhorn Fan, spawned from the seed of Coach Royal, mothered and nurtured by the ever-expanding media and its ravenous host, the UT Media machine, was born.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-10-26/cols_coach.html (794 words)

	www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But as Royal and his friend and protégé David McWilliams drove home to Austin after the game, he heard Carl Reese talking on the post-game show about being "taken to the woodshed." Royal and McWilliams remembered a similar day, 30 years before.
		Royal's post-game comments were really close to those of Mack Brown and his coaches after this year's game.
		Royal's 1973 team faced some adversity in their goal to do that.
	www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /pages/billcommentary/2003/101403_20.html (814 words)

	Royal, Coach Royal, University of Texas Press
		One of the most successful coaches in college football, Royal led the Longhorns to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles during his twenty years (1956-1976) as UT's head coach.
		He remembers growing up poor in Hollis, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, and describes playing college football for the University of Oklahoma and then coaching a succession of college teams and one pro team before settling in at UT for the rest of his career.
		Darrell Royal has been Special Assistant to the President of the University of Texas since his retirement in 1976.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/roycoa.html (340 words)

	Memorial Stadium
		Royal, who led Texas to three national championships and 11 SWC titles in 20 seasons (1957-76), was recognized and the stadium officially named for him the weekend of the Notre Dame game that year
		In a pregame ceremony prior to Texas game with Miami on September 23, 1972, the scoreboard at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium was dedicated to the memory of Freddie Steinmark.
		The last major happened in 1986 when The Neuhaus Royal complex was built at the south end of the stadium.
	users.california.com /~csuppes/NCAA/Big12/Texas/index.htm (1207 words)

	Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas \| WFAA.com \| Sports
		Royal answers the door in a burnt orange warm-up suit, but that's the only sign that the man who lives here was once a football coach.
		Royal tried working as a television analyst, but he didn't have the flair for it that former Arkansas coach Frank Broyles had.
		Royal would never be so vain as to brag about shooting his age, which Schneider said he's done several times.
	www.wfaa.com /sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/123005dnspoutlede.1d0a9070.html (2006 words)

	ESPN Classic - '76 "Spy Game" was series' most bitter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Darrell Royal coached Texas to national titles in 1963, '69 and '70.
		Royal lavished his concentration on the OU game at least part of every day weeks before the season that year.
		Royal at that point, with Texas holding the ball at its 36 after a run of nine yards by Earl Campbell produced a first down, wished out loud to defensive coordinator Mike Campbell that Texas had practiced a quick kick.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/2001/1001/1257984.html (2291 words)

	Words of Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A legendary homespun wit and an innovative mind have made former Texas boss Darrell Royal a coaching icon.
		The Longhorns flat-out dominated the Southwest Conference during the Royal era, with 11 league titles (including a record six straight) and 77 players named all-SWC from 1957-76.
		Royal's overall 23-year head coaching career will be remembered for his never having a losing season, being credited as the first to install the Wishbone and for his dedication to success in the classroom and adherence to NCAA rules and principles.
	www.americanfootballmonthly.com /Subaccess/Magazine/1999/Nov'99/royal.html (291 words)

	College Football News Forum - Mack Brown and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Subtracting the record of Darrell Royal, we find that Texas only won 16 out of a possible 60 SWC crowns in it’s exalted history.
		Since Darrell Royal’s retirement in 1976, the ‘Horns won exactly five Southwest Conference Championships (in twenty years) and one Big XII Championship.
		And let’s not forget that one of Royal’s MNC was the 1970 UPI title, when they went belly up in their bowl game to Notre Dame by a score of 24-11.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7472&whichpage=1 (5014 words)

	Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium - Schedule, Dates and College Football Tickets - Austin, Texas
		Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium tickets are available now at TickCo Premium Seating.
		We are not affiliated with Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium, Ticketmaster® or any box office.
		Remodled in 1999 Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium is home to University of Texas Longhorns football.
	www.tickco.com /venue_schedules/darrell_royal_stadium.htm (189 words)

	USATODAY.com - Royal pulling for Brown to hook Texas' fourth title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Texas' stadium is named after Royal, and a statue of his likeness stands sentry above one end zone.
		But Royal thinks Brown, who has been much criticized for failing to win on the biggest of stages, is making his own legend as well.
		Royal doesn't wear any of the rings — too much bling, he says.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/college/football/big12/2005-12-26-texas-royal_x.htm (458 words)

	Earl Campbell - The College Years
		That's the least I can do for Coach Royal, since he's the one responsible for me being where I'm at today." But despite the support and respect Coach Royal received from his players and fans, including Earl, Royal knew it was time to step down as Head Coach at the University of Texas.
		That night, as he was leaving the stadium, he saw two men who he had never met before, hugging each other goodbye and saying, "I love you." Earl had never witnessed two males openly expressing their feelings for one another.
		He entered the bus, walked over to Royal, explained what he had just witnessed and said, "This touched me 'cause I didn't know what I was gonna say to you tonight, in the event I saw you.
	www.earlcampbell.com /college_years/college3.html (484 words)

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