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He had competed neck-and-neck in the spring at fullback with Steve Worster, the most heavily recruited runner of Darrell Royal's first decade at Texas, and a starter was still to be determined.
The series also features Darrell Royal's debut at UT's head coach in 1957 and Georgia's only trip to Austin in 1958. "You love those games that if you want to call them the measuring stick or kind ...