Beautiful Day at the Ballpark

[Bobby Burton]

What a gorgeous day for a baseball game.

 

[Bobby Burton]

For those unaware, Keith Moreland is a good dude.

[marathon]

5 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

For those unaware, Keith Moreland is a good dude.

It’s hard to believe that Moreland was a freshman in 1972…same as me. I believe he played on the freshman football team at UT in 1972 and then baseball in the spring of 1973. I scheduled my spring classes around baseball games when they were played at the old Clark Field. Besides Moreland, pitchers Jim Gideon, Richard Wortham and Martin Flores I remember on the 1973 team. 

The 1973 and 1974 teams were damn good and made the College World Series. Disch-Falk field opened in 1975 and the Moreland led Texas team won the College World Series.

I loved old Clark Field just north of the football stadium (I believe the performing arts building is there now.. It had a limestone wall in the outfield. There was a hill/ramp in CF for outfielders to retrieve baseballs that stayed up there. It was known as Billy Goat Hill.

I’ve always been a Moreland fan and he is a great baseball announcer.
 

 

[Bobby Burton]

Those are great pics. Thanks for sharing.

[Jc Dobbs]

21 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

For those unaware, Keith Moreland is a good dude.

Bobby...I was a Freshman at UT way back in the Fall Semester of 1972.

I remember Keith Moreland getting media coverage as a promising QB on Coach DKR's football team. I think it was the last year that Division I football programs were required to maintain Freshman football teams because Freshmen weren't allowed to play varsity football.

Please correct me if I'm wrong... happens more frequently these days!

Hook 'Em!

[Thailand T Sip]

The Texas Shorthorns they played an abbreviated schedule if I recall correctly. 
 

Not sure exact year that freshmen started playing, but it was just before Earl got here. He had over 1000 yds as a fresh. Played fullback in the WB, I think.

Edited 4 hours ago by Thailand T Sip

[Burnt Orange Horn]

19 hours ago, marathon said:

It’s hard to believe that Moreland was a freshman in 1972…same as me. I believe he played on the freshman football team at UT in 1972 and then baseball in the spring of 1973. I scheduled my spring classes around baseball games when they were played at the old Clark Field. Besides Moreland, pitchers Jim Gideon, Richard Wortham and Martin Flores I remember on the 1973 team. 

The 1973 and 1974 teams were damn good and made the College World Series. Disch-Falk field opened in 1975 and the Moreland led Texas team won the College World Series.

I loved old Clark Field just north of the football stadium (I believe the performing arts building is there now.. It had a limestone wall in the outfield. There was a hill/ramp in CF for outfielders to retrieve baseballs that stayed up there. It was known as Billy Goat Hill.

I’ve always been a Moreland fan and he is a great baseball announcer.
 

 

Those were the days, my fellow alum!  No decks nor huge screens nor overwhelming PA System at Memorial Stadium, open SEZ, full track and beautiful oak trees on the west side of Memorial Stadium, Billy Goat Hill in Center Field.  I was in Paradise and never fully realized it.  My heart cries out, now.

Edited 2 hours ago by Burnt Orange Horn

[Burnt Orange Horn]

1 hour ago, Thailand T Sip said:

The Texas Shorthorns they played an abbreviated schedule if I recall correctly. 
 

Not sure exact year that freshmen started playing, but it was just before Earl got here. He had over 1000 yds as a fresh. Played fullback in the WB, I think.

I think 1972 was the first year freshman were eligible to play varsity.  The Freshmen Shorthorns played a 5 game schedule, like TCU, SMU, TTU, Baylor and Rice.  Sadly I never attended one game.

[Burnt Orange Horn]

13 minutes ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

Those were the days, my fellow alum!  No decks nor huge screens nor overwhelming PA System at Memorial Stadium, open SEZ, full track and beautiful oak trees on the west side of Memorial Stadium, Billy Goat Hill in Center Field.  I was in Paradise and never fully realized it.  My heart cries out, now.

The old intramural fields were at the top right of the Memorial picture too along with the old men's dorms like Prather and Roberts, etc.  No need for any sissy AC back then!

[camridleyfan]

20 hours ago, marathon said:

It’s hard to believe that Moreland was a freshman in 1972…same as me. I believe he played on the freshman football team at UT in 1972 and then baseball in the spring of 1973. I scheduled my spring classes around baseball games when they were played at the old Clark Field. Besides Moreland, pitchers Jim Gideon, Richard Wortham and Martin Flores I remember on the 1973 team. 

The 1973 and 1974 teams were damn good and made the College World Series. Disch-Falk field opened in 1975 and the Moreland led Texas team won the College World Series.

I loved old Clark Field just north of the football stadium (I believe the performing arts building is there now.. It had a limestone wall in the outfield. There was a hill/ramp in CF for outfielders to retrieve baseballs that stayed up there. It was known as Billy Goat Hill.

I’ve always been a Moreland fan and he is a great baseball announcer.
 

 

Hindsight is always 20/20 but that would’ve been a great location to keep the baseball stadium

[JimR6]

I played at Clark Field. There was no ramp in CF. There were footholds cut in the 15-foot cliff, and our OFers practicing scaling it by going at it straight on and climbing up at full speed using the footholds. Full speed momentum was required or it was roadrunner falling backwards.

[Thailand T Sip]

1 hour ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

I think 1972 was the first year freshman were eligible to play varsity.  The Freshmen Shorthorns played a 5 game schedule, like TCU, SMU, TTU, Baylor and Rice.  Sadly I never attended one game.

Thanks, just imagine the yards that some 1960's players would have had, e.g.- Worster, both Koys, Sexton, Gilbert ...

[Bevo72]

2 hours ago, Burnt Orange Horn said:

Those were the days, my fellow alum!  No decks nor huge screens nor overwhelming PA System at Memorial Stadium, open SEZ, full track and beautiful oak trees on the west side of Memorial Stadium, Billy Goat Hill in Center Field.  I was in Paradise and never fully realized it.  My heart cries out, now.

I enjoyed that ballpark.  Seen many games there 

[Jerry K]

On 4/19/2026 at 1:45 PM, Bobby Burton said:

What a gorgeous day for a baseball game.

 

Noticed you got a little tv time!