- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing; New title edition (28 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1589791290
- ISBN-13: 978-1589791299
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,476,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Attended by President Nixon and future presidents George Bush, Sr., and Bill Clinton, the Texas- Arkansas game of 1969 was about much more than football. It pit war protest against Southern pride, hippie against soldier, fan against fan.
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THE TALK OF A 1969 SCHEDULE CHANGE started on the day Frank Broyles played golf in Little Rock and attended a Razorback Club gathering in little Lonoke, twenty miles farther east. Read the first page
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THE TALK OF A 1969 SCHEDULE CHANGE started on the day Frank Broyles played golf in Little Rock and attended a Razorback Club gathering in little Lonoke, twenty miles farther east. Read the first page
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
What a game! What a book!
28 Jun 2004
Format:Hardcover
Having spent 4 years as a manager for the Longhorns, I search out books on UT sports. Imagine my surprise in finding one with my picture (in the team photo) on the back of the dust jacket! Seriously, a well-researched, well-written book. How do I know? For starters, I was there at some of those conversations, both as an observer & participant. Many of the incidents Frei describes brought back many memories. I knew the Texas players & coaches very, very well. Some of them I still see on occasion.
I particularly enjoyed Frei's delving into more than just the game itself. For those of us in college during the late 60's, it was a tumultuous time. Sports often was a "safety-valve release" for the on-campus tensions that raged around us. Gathering in stadiums across the country was one way of forgetting about the social unrest threatening to tear our country apart. Frei made all of those memories come alive.
I commend Terry Frei for his book. Sure, he could have gone for pumped-up sales by getting into the "dirt" (& every sport has it!), but instead he chose to do a more serious work. I congratulate him for that. The book both gets across the intensity of the game - & of the rivalry between UA & UT - & its connection with the times. I heartily recommend "HHNC" to all sports fans. It will be enjoyed by all who love college athletics, especially football.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A sports book for everyone
1 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming is a book that even non sports-fans will enjoy tremendously: it made a convert of me. I received this book as a gift, reluctantly. College football ranks very low on my list of things I enjoy: even lower still are Baby-Boomer nostalgia books. Terry Frei's writing lifts Horns, Hogs far above the level of typical testosterone-drenched sports tomes and Big Chill-style self-importance. With restraint and skill, Frei shows how the strands of social issues and the trajectories of many human lives intersected to produce a memorable weekend both on and off the football field. Frei does not claim that one college football game changed history. He does show how that one point in time served as a stage where humans displayed courage, intelligence, idealism, administrative cowardice and even vanity. Terry Frei did not forget Freddie Steinmark's courage; neither will the readers of this book. Buy it if you enjoy true tales of humanity well told.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
'69 National Champs lived in Austin, not State College
21 Dec 2002
Format:Hardcover
A very well-written book on one of the truly classic games in college football. Sadly, not surprising to see a still-bitter PSU fan whining about the '69 national title rightly won by the Longhorns. This famous qoute by a much-beloved Texas player says it all: "We could never figure out why they didn't choose to settle it on the grass in Dallas, rather than from a soapbox in Pennsylvania."
-- Freddie Steinmark on the protestations of Penn State and Joe Paterno that they deserved the MNC in 1969, after they refused the invitation to play the Horns in the Cotton Bowl.
-- Freddie Steinmark on the protestations of Penn State and Joe Paterno that they deserved the MNC in 1969, after they refused the invitation to play the Horns in the Cotton Bowl.
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