About Darrell Royal:
Darrell K Royal was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas at Austin (1957–1976), compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships (1963, 1969, and 1970), 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for one season in 1953. He never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career. Royal played football at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 to 1949. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
Darrell RoyalI try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
Darrell RoyalI knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
Darrell RoyalIf I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.
Darrell RoyalI learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
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