Darrell Royal
Darrell K Royal (July 6, 1924 – November 7, 2012) was an American
gridiron football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at
Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the
University of Washington (1956), and the
University of Texas (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 was an All-American at the
University of Oklahoma, where he played football 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.
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