RIP Quarter 4 (October - December) 2026

This death probably won’t mean much to anyone who isn’t a Texas Longhorns fan from back in time.

UT Longhorns National Championship Quarterback “Duke” Carlisle died age 84

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(From Wikipedia)

Emmet Augustus “Duke” Carlisle III (December 13, 1941 – October 2, 2026) was an American college football player who started as a quarterback and defensive back for the Texas Longhorns in the early 1960s. He was the starting quarterback on Texas’ first national championship team in 1963. In his final game, he set the NCAA record for most yards per pass completion in a bowl game and three Cotton Bowl records on his way to being named the game’s Offensive MVP. He still holds the Cotton Bowl record for most yards per pass completion.

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By 1963 though, Carlisle had taken the starting quarterback role from Wade and started every game, earning 2nd team all-conference honors.[5] He led the team to an 11–0 record and to Texas’ first ever national title in football. Texas started the season ranked #5, but by the time the Red River Rivalry rolled around they were #2 and Oklahoma was #1. The game became the first #1 vs. #2 that Texas has ever played in, and after they won, Carlisle appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Texas won the following six games to win both the Southwest Conference and National Championships. Perhaps Carlisle’s most important contribution towards the national title came not behind center, but on defense. Against Baylor, in the only game (and only series) in which he played safety during his senior year, he had a game-saving end-zone interception to preserve a 7–0 win.[3] Two weeks later against Texas A&M, Texas fell behind and Carlisle was pulled in favor of Wade. After Wade drove Texas to the 2-yard line and nearly threw the ball away, Carlisle came back in and scored the game-winning touchdown with a little more than a minute left. For the season, Carlisle was named he team’s MVP and he finished fifth in Heisman Trophy voting for the Southwest region but did not have enough votes to crack the top 10.[5]

Carlisle saved his best game for last against #2 Navy in the 1964 Cotton Bowl, played only six weeks after John F. Kennedy’s assassination a few miles away. This would be the 2nd #1 vs. #2 game in Texas history and the only season in which Texas ever played in two such games. Though overshadowed by Heisman trophy winner Roger Staubach, Carlisle was the star of the day. On the 6th play of the game, Carlisle threw a 58-yard TD pass to Phil Harris. In the 2nd quarter, on an identical play, he threw a 63-yard touchdown pass, again to Harris. He passed for 213 yards and 2 touchdowns and rushed for another 54 yards and a touchdown, for 267 all purpose yards and 3 touchdowns – and he sat out much of the 2nd half. For comparison, in the previous 10 games that season he had amassed only 415 yards and 4 touchdowns. He was named Outstanding Back in the game averaging a then NCAA-record 30.4 yards per completion. He still holds the Cotton Bowl Record for yards per completion.

Carlisle’s final record as a Texas starting quarterback was a perfect 12–0.

After the season was over, he was selected as a quarterback in the annual College All-Star Football Game in Chicago.

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After college, she was drafted by Green Bay and put on the practice squad and then sent to Dallas for the Cowboys where he was also on the practice squad

But then he realized he didn’t have NFL level size or talent. He retired from sports and became an investment banker in New York, and then later an oil man.

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Because I grew up in a serious Longhorn family I got to see him play a few times during 1963 and on January 1, 1964 when the Longhorns beat Roger Staubach and the Navy team in the Cotton Bowl to secure the national title

I didn’t attend the famous Baylor game, and it was not televised, but did listen to it on radio and still remember how the entire household screamed after the game deciding interception which was made by Carlisle.

(Baylor was superb that year)

All the Carlisle was never the athlete that Staubach proved to be, both of them had that fourth-quarter magic where they could pull a game out of a pit and win it

I imagine that most Longhorns, who were into football during1963 still remember his name

Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress whose performances in On the Waterfront and Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest made her one of the defining stars of postwar Hollywood, died Tuesday at 102.

The actress won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut as Edie Doyle in Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront in 1954, opposite Marlon Brando, becoming only the fourth performer to win a supporting actress Oscar for a first screen role. The award was presented at the 1955 Academy Awards.

Her portrayal of the grieving sister of a slain longshoreman helped elevate the film into the ranks of American cinema’s most enduring classics. More than half a century later, critics and audiences continued to regard it as one of the defining debuts in movie history.

Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest cemented her place in Hollywood. In the 1959 thriller, she played Eve Kendall, the sophisticated and enigmatic woman who draws Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill into a deadly espionage plot. The role became one of the most celebrated female performances in Hitchcock’s career and remains synonymous with Saint’s legacy.
Although she appeared in relatively few films compared with many of her contemporaries, Saint assembled a body of work that stretched across more than seven decades. Her major screen credits included A Hatful of Rain (1957), Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), 36 Hours (1964), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), Grand Prix (1966), The Stalking Moon (1968), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter’s Tale (2014).

Her longevity made her a singular figure in the entertainment industry. Saint worked with many of the defining artists of 20th-century cinema, including Brando, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, while collaborating with directors such as Kazan, Hitchcock and Otto Preminger.
In recent years, Saint was widely recognized as the oldest living Oscar winner, a distinction that underscored her status as one of the last surviving links to Hollywood’s classic era. She developed a reputation for intelligence, warmth and understated emotional depth that transcended generations.

(From Newsweek site)

(With Cary Grant in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest)

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RIP Walter, Jr…

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