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A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
On this date in Texas history, the Longhorns closed out their 1928 season with a shutout of Texas A&M.
Smokey the Cannon is owned and operated by the Texas Cowboys (an honorary men’s service organization at Texas) and is stationed in the left corner of the south endzone at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium during every Texas Longhorns home football game. After each football season, Smokey the Cannon is generally displayed in the Red ...
The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and are now the official "large animal" of the state of Texas. [ 2 ]
On this date in Texas history, the football team won a championship in its Big 12 finale. Texas won Big 12 championships in 1996, 2005, 2009 and 2023.
The Texas–Texas A&M football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies. [2] The rivalry was played every year between 1915 and 2011, until A&M left the Big 12 Conference to join the Southeastern Conference [3] during the 2010–12 Southeastern Conference realignment as a part of the wider 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment.
The 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic [2] was a postseason college football bowl game in the 1969 season, held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, January 1, 1970. The game matched the top-ranked Texas Longhorns (10–0) and the #9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (8–1–1). [3] [4]
Firefighters in Texas faced rising temperatures, whipped-up winds and dry air Saturday in their battle to keep the largest wildfire in state history from turning more of the Panhandle into a ...