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Jonathan Wells's avatar

In Arkansas’s 1904 yearbook you’ll see a man wearing a “T” letter sweater in the picture of the university’s 1903 football team. It’s David Albert McDaniel, who was a guard on the 1900 University of Texas team and later coached at Arkansas in 1903. I included that picture in a post I wrote about McDaniel earlier this year.

https://open.substack.com/pub/texasandlonghornhistory/p/texas-longhorn-ghost-towns-orangeville

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Football Archaeology's avatar

Great story or D. A. McDaniel as well.

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Dick Friedman's avatar

Gee, I thought Warren's "D" was for "Doctor."

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Do you know how and why Fielding Yost earned his memorable nickname "Hurry Up"?

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Football Archaeology's avatar

Some say it was his general punctuality and hard driving nature. Others that he had his QB start calling the signals while he or his teammates were still on the ground from the previous play, allowing them to run one play after another. Michigan's point-a-minute teams scored a lot of points in the 1900-1905 era.

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