Asher Price on How UT Austin Recruited Earl Campbell

University of Texas Press

"In 1973, Darrell K Royal faced challenges landing top African-American high school football players, so he enlisted a team of recruiters. Led by Ken Dabbs, they set out to convince the state’s top running back, Tyler’s Earl Campbell, that The University of Texas was where he needed to be. In an excerpt from journalist Asher Price’s forthcoming book, Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact, Royal, Dabbs, and their crew show Earl—and his mother, Ann—that the Longhorns would give him the best chance to succeed, on the field and off." Read more from The Alcalde: https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2019/07/the-tyler-rose-the-story-of-uts-recruitment-of-earl-campbell/