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WARMING UP - Wide receiver BUI Boy Bryant (80)
and quaterback Rick Mclvor warm up on the sidelines
before the start of last Monday’s 48th Cotton Bowl
Classic. The game pitted second-ranked Texas against
number seven Georgia. The Bulldogs won the game
10-9 after Texas muffed a punt late in the fourth
quarter.
OUT OF REACH — Bill Boy Bryant desperately
dives for a pass from Longhorn quaterback Rick
Mclvor in the corner of the end zone. Bryant slipped
and was held up at the line of scrimmage which threw
off the timing pattern. The Texas passing offense found
the going rough against a tough Georgia defense which
yielded only 150.2 yards per game through the air in 11
games.
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Bryant fulfills dreams at Texas
By JAVIER TAMEZ
It had been something he
had dreamed about ever
since he began playing
football.
Something that all boys
dreamed about at one time
or another.
An image to play in a
game for the champion-
ship. To add icing to the
cake, to play for an
undefeated team driving
for the title of “National
Champion”.
Dallas against the Univer-
sity of Georgia.
It was Bill Boy’s 7-yard
touchdown pass reception
from quaterback Todd
Dodge in the fourth quarter
the longhorns on a scholar-
ship, many thought Bill
Boy to be too small to play
major college football. He
has been proving them
wrong ever since.
of it.
Playing in all of Texas’ 11
games, Bill Boy finished
the season as the
Ixmghom’s second leading
receiver with 12 receptions
the distinct problem of
separating the two dif-
ferent characters of the
coach and the father to Bill
Boy and his younger son
Blake. Bill made the situa-
famous with his slick
passes to talented
receivers. It was this aerial
game which is the reason
Bill Boy ended up at Texas.
A highlight film of the
Now standing in the
midst of some 67,000 plus
maniac Cotton Bowl fans
with a nation-wide au-
diance watching on telev-
sion, Bill Boy Bryant was
about to make his dreams
come true.
The University of Texas
Ixmghorns, a football team
with the number one rated
defense in the nation and
ranked only behind
Nebraska as the best col-
legiate team in the nation,
had a lot to thank the
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ALMOST GOT IT — Bill Boy Bryant tries to turn around in time to catch a pass from Texas quarter-
back Rick Mclvor. The tfcro» was behind Bryant as he made his cut inside the Georgia coverage. Bryant
finished the day with two catches for 41 yards.
of the SMU-Texas game
that lifted the Longhorns to
a 15-12 victory over the
Mustangs. Though the
Longhorns still had five
games left to play,
Bryant's catch, which cap-
ped a 62-yard touchdown
drive, practically assured
Texas of a Southwest Con-
ference football title and a
Cotton Bowl birth.
For Bryant, it has been a
dream which has lasted all
season long. Coming out of
high school as a quarter-
back and signing on with
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Standing in at only 5-10
and tipping the scales at
153 pounds, the 20-year-old
physical education junior
gave the experts plenty of
reason to doubt his playing
abilities. What the
Longhorn coaches saw was
a determined young man
with amazing quickness
and excellent hands just
waiting for, a chance to
play.
After converting from
the quarterback spot to
wide receiver hig freshman
year, Bill Boy finally got
his chance to play this
year, and took advantage
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for 218 yards. An average
of 18.2 yards a catch. Only
Brent Duhon had more cat-
ches and more touchdown
receptions as a Ixmghom
receiver.
For Bill Boy to even be
playing for the University
of Texas was just a stroke
of luck. But it wasn’t luck
the way he hung in there
waiting for a chance to
play.
Always having been
blessed with natural talent,
the strict discipline and
strong determination he
possesses was taught to
him by his father,‘Bill.
Being a coach, Bill had
Lions' passing game
designed by Bill was sent to
Spike Dykes who was at
Midland Lee at the time.
Ken Dobbs, a recruiting
coordinator for the
Longhorns saw a few clips
of the film and asked per-
mission to take the film to
Texas head coach, Fred
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ing one simple rule: never
talk football in the home.
“I’ve always felt the two
most important people to
my sons were their father
and their coach find that f
had to keep these two per-
sons seperate,” said Bill.
“I treated them just like a
father should at home and .Akers,
if they wanted to talk about Akers liking what he
football, we would go to the saw, invited Bill Boy to the
field house just like all the UT campus for a visit,
other players I would talk Away on a sluing trip. Bill
to." ' received a call from Akfers
The philosophy must telling him to buy
have sunk in as it guided something orange. Akers
the Lions some of their best had offered a scholarship
seasons ever with Bill Boy to Bill Boy and he had
at the quarterback spot. accepted.
In command of a super- The decision to take the
charged offensive attack, football offer from Texas
Bill Boy made the Lions was a major one for Bill
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Boy for he had originally
planned to attend the
University of Houston on a
golf scholarship.
Known nation-wide for
its’ outstanding golf teams,
Houston had recruited Bill
Boy heavily based on his in-
credible high school
record.
Bill Boy had won 21 high
school golf tournaments
which included four con-
secutive Class 2A in-
dividual medalists titles at
the state meet in his
career.
Taking the offer from
Texas suprised his father
completely. “I never
realized he wanted to play
football in college until the
recruiting started. I never
talked to him about playing
football at home about
Dublin or Texas, so it took
me by surprise,” said Bill.
Bill Boy took a lot of
other people by suprise
also as he caught his first
touchdown pass as a
Longhorn in the Rice
game.
Bill Boy reeled in a »
22-yard pass from Rob
Moerschell in the first
quarter as the longhorns
went on to easily beat the
Owls 42-6.
Two weeks later on na-
tional television, Bill Boy
caught his longest pass of
the year. A 56-yard bomb
from Moerschell to set up a
Texas field goal as the
longhorns destroyed the
Arkansas Razorbacks 31-3.
The very next week saw
Bill Boy do his magic trick
against SMU. <‘I was so ex-
cited after that catch. I was
just happy to be part of the
team to be able to help it
out in some way,” he said.
The catch was enough to
draw people’s attention as
the opponents kept a close
eye on the next few
games. Unfortunately for
themselves, the Aggies of
A&M weren't watching too
closely.
Down 13-0, BillMJoy
scored the Longhorns’ first
touchdown on a 12-yard
pass from Rick Mclvor. In
the third quarter, it was
Bill Boy throwing the ball
this time. On an end-
around pass. Bill Boy found
teammate Duhon in the end
zone for a 41-yard
touchdown pass. v
The play brought back
memories to the former-
Lion quarterback.
Due to complications, the
only games Bill has missed
this year were the Auburn
and Houston games. “I get
tears in my eyes everytune
is see him play. Bill Boy is
living proof that a small
boy from a small school
can make it at the major
college level.
“If you believe in
yourself and don't ttose
faith in your goals and your
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.Bill Boy . believes in
himself.
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