More than 300 UT football lettermen are known to have served in the U.S. military in some capacity.
Today is Veterans Day, which has been observed annually on November 11 in the United States since 1919, with the first observance occurring on the first anniversary of the formal end of World War I. Originally known as “Armistice Day” in the U.S. and in several other countries involved in the fighting of World War I, it officially became “Veterans Day” when an act of Congress so amended it in 1954, and it is a date intended to honor the military veterans of the many branches of the United States Armed Forces.
Many thousands of students, faculty, and staff members at the University of Texas from throughout the university’s 141-year history have served in the military, and hundreds of Longhorn student-athletes have done so. UT football players in particular have served in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard, and in conflicts and wars ranging chronologically from the Spanish-American War to the 21st century wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some served primarily in training or teaching roles, and many who were in active duty never had to see combat before their discharge. But hundreds of Longhorns made the ultimate sacrifice while in uniform.
Seventy-five former UT students or staff members perished while serving in World War I, including four Texas football lettermen. At least 664 Longhorns died while serving in World War II, including 24 student-athletes, seven football lettermen, and one former head football coach.
The Longhorn football program regularly recognizes veterans during pre-game ceremonies at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, and that stadium itself was, upon its completion 100 years ago in 1924, dedicated to the many Texans who had fought and died in World War I, then simply known as “the Great War”.
I originally published a list of military veterans from among Longhorn football lettermen for Veterans Day in 2021. That initial attempt was far from exhaustive and mostly compiled based on notes I had made while researching past Longhorns over the previous year. Several names were added when the list was updated for Veterans Day 2022, and at that point it contained 209 names of former Texas players and head football coaches who had served in the military.
Further research in the year between that update and Veterans Day of 2023 enabled the addition of 67 more names to the list, to the point that it included 271 UT football lettermen and six head coaches (Ed Price is the lone member of both categories among Longhorn veterans).
Though this year’s list is still an incomplete one, it contains 41 names that were not included in the 2023 Veterans Day post, a handful of which I was made aware of by readers who helpfully named some missing Longhorn veterans in the comments. Hopefully, we’ll one day be able to list all military veterans who have played football for the University of Texas.
As I noted in last year’s post, my list is expansive in its criteria for “veterans”. For instance, it includes Jerome Buxkemper, a 1945 letterman who was not a soldier but was for several years a teacher and coach at U.S. Department of Defense Dependents schools in Germany and Japan. I’ve also included Jack Sachse, a three-year letterman and co-captain of the 1944 Longhorn team who enlisted in the Navy soon after the United States’ entry into World War II and was a trainee with the Marines while in college, but ultimately received a medical discharge due to a shoulder injury that prevented him from being accepted for service in any branch of the military. They may not fit the official definition of “military veteran”, but Buxkemper spent many years teaching and coaching the children of American military personnel stationed overseas, and Sachse enlisted and was prepared to serve in the Marines during a world war before an injury prevented him from being called into active duty, so both of them make my list.
The list below includes the names of recognized UT football lettermen and head football coaches who served the military in some capacity, and the players on it amount to roughly 13% of all Longhorn lettermen. The vast majority of them will be unfamiliar names to most readers, but there are many Longhorn greats among this group. By my count, it includes 52 University of Texas Athletics Hall of Honor inductees and 39 Longhorn football team captains, plus at least three others — Ox Emerson, Red Goodwin, and Fred Moore — who were elected captain but were unable to serve in that role for one reason or another.
They are listed alphabetically by last name, and the year(s) in parentheses are those in which they won their football letters at Texas, or for former head coaches they will be the years in which they held that position. Listed after each name and their years with the UT football program is their hometown, or otherwise the city in which they attended high school (these cities are in Texas unless otherwise noted), as well as the branch of the armed services in which they served and the conflict or theater of war in which their service was rendered, if known. There are many compelling individual stories to be told about the men in this group, but that’s a subject for several other posts (or perhaps a book).
As I always note for those who are sticklers for proper terminology, there are some anachronisms and inconsistencies of labeling with some of these veterans’ units, particularly as it regards the “Air Force”. Before the United States Air Force became its own branch of the military in 1947, many Longhorns served in the Army Air Corps (1926-1941) or Army Air Forces (1941-47). The obituaries for several men who served in these units stated that they served in the “Air Force”, even if the entirety of their service was prior to 1947. I’ve largely labeled their service according to how it was described in either their obituaries or in contemporary news reports, which were not always technically correct.
If you know of a Longhorn football military veteran who should be on this list and isn’t, please let me know or mention them in the comments. I’ve placed asterisks on the names that have been added to the list since Veterans Day of 2023.
University of Texas football lettermen and head football coaches who served in the U.S. military
Ben “Stookie” Allen (1924) — Corsicana — WWII, Army
*George Edward Allen (1952) — Pettus — Marines
*Henry Kiper “H.K.” Allen (1945) — Austin — WWII and Korea, Navy
Leroy Andersen (1944) — Wilmot, Wisconsin — WWII and Korea; Navy
Kenneth Anglin (1952) — Groom — Korean War, Marines
Judson Atchison (1935-37) — Baird — WWII, Army
Thomas Adam Austin, Jr. (1916) — Laredo — Army; retired as a colonel, and during his Army career he started the ROTC program at Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
Roy Baines (1937-38) — Odessa — WWII, Navy
Robert Baldridge (1931) — Clifton — WWII, Army
William Barry (1920) — Dallas — WWI, Army
John Gaddis Bass (1913) — Houston — WWI, Army
Maurice Baumgarten (1929-31) — Schulenburg — WWII, Navy
James Henry “Jack” Beall, Jr. (1916) — Sweetwater — WWI, Army
Maxie Bell (1944-45) — Vernon — Navy
Kearie Lee “K.L.” Berry (1912, 14-15, 24) — Denton — Army; A career Army officer, he was captured in the Philippines by Japanese forces soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he survived the infamous Bataan Death March at age 48 before spending over 3 years in a prisoner of war camp. He was liberated near the end of World War II and retired from active duty in 1947 as a Brigadier General. He then spent another 14 years as the Adjutant General of Texas, holding the rank of Major General.
Cade Bethea (1897-99) — Seven Oaks — Spanish-American War, Army
Dause Bibby (1931-32) — Dublin — WWII, Navy
Dana X. Bible (head football coach 1937-46) — Jefferson City, Tennessee — WWI, Air Corps
Robert Blaine (1915-16, 19) — Houston — Army
William Bartlett Blocker (1904-05) — San Antonio — WWI
Ralph “Peppy” Blount (1945, 47-48) — Big Spring — WWII, Army Air Corps
Edwin Bluestein (1922-23) — Port Arthur — WWI, Navy
Daniel Philip “Phil” Bolin (1943-44) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Navy
Ray Borneman (1948-49) — Houston — WWII, Navy
Nate Boyer (2012-14) — El Cerrito, California — Iraq, Afghanistan; Army, Green Berets
Wesley Boyer (1937-38) — Fort Worth — WWII, Army
Edward Young “E.Y.” Boynton (1916) — Waco — WWI, Army
Dewey Bradford (1917) — Austin — WWI, Marines
Fred Brechtel (1945) — New Orleans, Louisiana — Navy
Wilson Brennan (1917-19) — Denison — WWI, Army
Clinton Giddings Brown (1901) — San Antonio — WWI
Shelby Buck (1938-39) — Crosbyton — WWII, Royal Canadian Air Force and U.S. Air Force; killed in a plane crash in England in May 1943
Max Bumgardner (1942, 46-47) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Army Corps of Engineers
Jimmie Burr (1931-32) — Austin — WWII, Army
Edmond Franklin Butler (1943) — Lubbock — Navy
Jerome Buxkemper (1945) — Ballinger — Teacher and coach at U.S. Department of Defense Dependents schools in Japan and Germany
James Ross Callahan (1943) — Wink — Navy
Dougal Cameron (1952-53) — San Saba — Vietnam, Marines; retired from active duty as a lieutenant colonel in 1972.
Paul Campbell (1948-49) — Breckenridge — WWII, Army Air Corps
James Maurice “Jim” Canady (1943, 46-47) — Austin — WWII, Navy
David Clinton “Bobby” Cannon (1919) — Crockett— Navy
Henry James Casey (1916) — Sherman — WWI, Army
Vance LaNoal Castleberry (1956) — Childress — Army Corps of Engineers
John Edward “Jack” Chevigny (head football coach, 1934-36) — Hammond, Indiana — WWII, Army and Marine Corps; killed at the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.
James Stewart Clarke (1896-97) — Boerne — Army
Randy Clay (1947-49) — Pampa — Army
Howard “Hank” Clewis (1930-32) — Austin — WWII, Army; attained the rank of colonel
Donald Cohenour (1940-41) — Orange — WWII, Navy
Joseph Russell “Joe” Coleman (1943) — Ballinger — Navy
Jack Allison Collins (1934-36) — Denton — WWII, Army Air Force
William Harold “Spot” Collins (1941-42, 46) — Breckenridge — WWII and Korean War, Marines
William Zuehl Conoly (1941-42) — Corpus Christi — WWII, Navy
Ted Constanzo (1975-77, 79) — San Antonio — Army
Jack Cowley (1926-28) — Paris — WWII, Army Corps of Engineers
Jack Crain (1939-41) — Nocona — WWII, Navy
Ed Crane (1903, 05) — Dallas — WWI, Army
Franklin “Sandy” Crow (1944) — Taft — WWII, Navy
Ward Dabney (1895) — Bonham — Spanish-American War and WWI; Army officer for 22 years who retired as a colonel.
Chal Newton Daniel, Jr. (1939-41) — Longview — WWII, Army Air Corps; killed in a plane crash northwest of New Braunfels on February 13, 1943.
Milton Enoch “M.E.” Daniel (1916) — Waco — WWI, Army
Edward Gilmore “Gilly” Davis (1938-39) — San Benito — Army reserves, civilian pilot instructor
Doug Dawkins (1952) — Alexandria, Louisiana — Marines
Ted Dawson (1938-40) — Hondo — WWII, Navy
Gustav “Pig” Dittmar (1913-16) — Houston — Army
Walter Doell (1929-31) — Mason — Coast Guard
Harry Dolan (1916) — Taylor — WWI, Air Corps
Noble Doss (1939-41) — Temple — WWII, Navy
Addison Baker Duncan (1915) — Waco — Army
*Benjamin Hadley “Ben” Dyer (1906-09) — Houston — WWI, Army
Glen Dyer (1954) — Sinton — Army
John Franklin Easter (1902) — Itasca — Spanish-American War
Robert Lee Edge (1944) — Dallas — WWII, Army
James Archibald “Pete” Edmond (1913-15) — Waco — WWI, Army; killed in action in October 1918
*Artie Ellis (2000) — Spring — Army
Joseph Ferguson Ellis (1920) — Lockhart — WWI
Joseph Henry Ellis (1918) — San Saba — Army
Gover “Ox” Emerson (1929-30) — Orange — WWII, Navy
Bernard Joseph “Bernie Esunas” (1936-38) — Washington, DC — WWII, Army Air Corps
Don Fambrough (1942) — Longview — WWII, Army Air Corps
Elmo Felfe (1945) — Thorndale — Navy
Jackie H. Field (1941-42) — Mission — WWII, Navy
Robert Franklin “Bob” Finn (1953-54) — Taft — Army
Harold Joe Fischer (1941-42, 44) — Austin — WWII, Marines
Preston Flanagan (1940-41) — Longview — WWII, Korea, and Vietnam; Air Force, retired as a lieutenant colonel
Jack Freeman (1939, 41-42) — Mexia — WWII, Air Force
*Errol Fry (1947-49) — Anson — Air Force
Floyd Garrett (1931) — China Spring — WWII, Marines
William Covington “W.C.” Gathings, Jr. (1901) — Covington — Spanish-American War
*Charles Genthner (1951-52) — Dallas — Korean War, Army
Frank Gerling (1944) — Austin — Navy
Audrey Lee Gill (1941-42, 46) — Sweetwater — WWII, Army Air Force
John Ellis Gill (1938-40) — Amarillo — WWII, Army Air Force
Byron Gillory (1945-48) — Marshall — Air Force; A career USAF officer who retired as a colonel. He was also a member of the coaching staff for the first football team at the Air Force Academy.
William Gohmert (1919) — San Antonio — WWI
David Gonzalez (2016) — Chicago, Illinois — Marines
James William “Red” Goodwin (1939-40) — Amarillo — WWII, Army Air Corps; killed in action in April 1944.
*George Graham (1945) — San Angelo — Army
Edwin Ghent Graves (1917-19) — Galveston — Navy
Archibald Duncan “Archie” Gray (1920-22) — Baileyville — WWI, Army signal corps
Jack Gray (1933-34) — Wills Point — WWII, Navy
Lewis Gray (1937-39) — Gorman — WWII, Air Force
Ralph Greear (1932-33) — Clovis, New Mexico — WWII, Army; killed in action in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest on November 29, 1944.
Charles Lawless Green (1917) — Cameron — WWI, Naval Reserve Flying Corps
George Maverick Green (1919-20) — San Antonio — WWI and WWII
John Bachman Greer (1917-19) — Waco — WWI and WWII, Navy; died in a Navy hospital in New York on June 10, 1944.
Marcel Gres (1943) — San Francisco, California — WWII, Navy
Harold Griffin (1934-35) — Breckenridge — Army
James Robert “Jimmie” Grubbs (1939-40) — Houston — WWII
Frank Guess (1946-48) — Wharton — WWII, Army
James Robert “Jimmy” Hadlock (1933-35) — Marshall — WWII, Army Air Force
Halkert Alford Halbert (1914) — Coleman — WWI, Army
Ahmard Hall (2004-05) — Angleton — Kosovo, Afghanistan; Marines
Lawrence Hamilton (1917) — Dallas — WWI
Robert Kittrell Hanger (1916) — Fort Worth — WWI
William Penn Hargrove (1928-29) — Beaumont — WWII, Army Air Forces
Henry Harkins (1941) — Marshall — WWII, Navy
Rube Lee Harkins, Jr. (1939-41) — Marshall — WWII
*James Harley (1907) — Seguin — Texas National Guard, served as Adjutant General of Texas from 1917 to 1919.
Thomas Owen Harrell (1945) — Norman, Oklahoma — WWII, Navy
Henry “Demp” Harris (1941-42, 46) — Camden, Alabama — WWII
Richard Coke Harris (1894) — Comanche — Spanish-American War
*Rufus Harris (2002) — La Porte — Army
Thomas Maxey Hart (1916, 19-20) — Austin — WWI
Clyde Harville (1943) — Ballinger — WWII, Navy
Samuel Harwell (1916, 19) — Corsicana — Army
Charles Fred Hawn (1929, 31) — Athens — WWII, Naval Air Corps
Jesse Hawthorne (1940) — Port Arthur — WWII, Army Air Corps
Ed Heap (1945-46) — Temple — WWII
Walter Heap (1941, 46) — Taylor — WWII, Coast Guard
Bertram Hedick (1916, 19) — Mineral Wells — WWI, Army
Hans Richard Frantz Helland (1910) — Waxahachie — WWI
James Higginbotham (1912) — Dublin — Naval reserve flying corps; died from injuries sustained in a plane crash near Hicks Field in Fort Worth on February 23, 1918.
Lewis Holder (1946-48) — Dallas — WWII, Army Air Corps
Henry Lewis Hook (1944) — Houston — WWII, Navy; later a longtime civilian employee of the Department of Defense
Fred Walter Householder (1904-05) — Charlie — WWI, Army
Kyle Hrncir (2018) — San Antonio — Army
Billy Hughes (1935-36) — Van Alstyne — WWII
Simeon Hardin Hulsey (1920) — Bonham — WWI and WWII; He was a doctor who held the rank of colonel and was commanding officer of the 36th Evacuation Hospital, which operated in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Glenn Jackson (1937-38, 40) — Corpus Christi — WWII, Army Air Force
John Andrew Jackson, Jr. (1902) — Austin — Spanish-American War
Ransom Jackson (1945) — Little Rock, Arkansas — Navy
Gillis Johnson (1915-16) — Fort Worth — WWI
Woody Johnson (1941) — Tyler — WWII, Army
James Carroll “T” Jones (1950-52) — Childress — Army
James Slaughter “Snakey” Jones (1895-96) — Bastrop — WWI, Army captain; later a Judge Advocate in the National Guard who held the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Murray Brashear Jones (1908-09) — Houston — Army
Raymond Jones (1942, 46-47) — Austin — WWII, Navy
Louis Jordan (1911-14) — Fredericksburg — WWI, Army; killed in action in March 1918
Charles Herbert Jungmichel (1947) — Austin — WWII, Army Air Force
Harold “Buddy” Jungmichel (1940-41) — Thorndale — WWII, Navy
Hubert “Buster” Jurecka (1933-35) — Robstown — WWII, Army Air Corps
Bothwell Kane (1912) — Fort Worth — WWI, Army; killed in action in July 1918
Nathan Kaspar (2001) — Ganado — Navy
Ray Keck (1914) — Cotulla — Army
Raymond Keeling (1935-37) — Dallas — WWII, Army
Arthur Kelleher (1910) — Austin — WWI, Army
Raymond Keller (1899) — San Antonio — Spanish-American War
*J.J. Kelly (1997-99) — Brenham — Navy
Winchester Kelso (1915) — San Antonio — WWI, Army
Thurman August “T.A.” Kinder (1900) — Marble Hill, Missouri — WWI, Army
George Cyrus Kindley (1904) — Graham — WWI, medical corps
Clarence Waldman King (1896) — San Antonio — Spanish-American War, Army
Arnold Kirkpatrick (1909-11) — Brownwood — WWI
James Shiro “Jim” Kishi (1943) — Houston — Army, WWII and Korean War; a very experienced pilot and engineer who spent a decade as director of research and development for the Army Aviation Test Board at Fort Rucker, Alabama
Ernest Koy Sr. (1930-32) — Sealy — WWII, Navy
Malcolm Kutner (1939-41) — Dallas — WWII, Navy
Thomas Wade “Tom” Landry (1947-48) — Mission — WWII, Army Air Corps
William Allyn “Rip” Lang (1916) — Corsicana — WWI, Navy
Wallace Lawson (1936-38) — Cleburne — WWII, Army
Pete Layden (1939-41) — Dallas — WWII, Army Air Corps
Bobby Layne (1944-47) — Dallas — WWII, Merchant Marines
Charles Holland Leavell (1896-98) — Georgetown — Spanish-American War
Bobby Coy Lee (1943, 48-49) — Austin — WWII, Army Air Corps
*Snowden Leftwich (1912) — Dallas — WWI, Army
*Joe Losack (1956) — East Bernard — Marines
George Luhn (1923) — Taylor — WWI, Navy
Joe Magliolo (1942-43, 47) — Galveston — WWII, Navy
William Main (1943) — Danville, California — WWII, Navy
Keifer Marshall (1943) — Temple — WWII, Marines
Vernon Martin (1940-41) — Amarillo — WWII, Army Air Force
Martin Luther “Happy” Massingill (1909-10) — Midlothian — WWI, Air Corps
Julian Mastin (1919) — Fort Worth — WWI, Army
*James Rayborn Matthews (1952) — Corsicana — Korean War, Army
Kenneth Matthews (1941-42) — Corpus Christi — WWII, Marines
Stanley Mauldin (1940-42) — Amarillo — WWII, Army Air Corps
Frederick John Maurer (1943) — Eureka, California — WWII, Navy
*George Vance Maverick (1902) — San Antonio — WWI, Army
Lewis Maverick (1896) — San Antonio — Army
Ray Mayfield (1944) — Galena Park — WWII, Army
Lewis “Mickey” Mayne (1941-42) — Cuero — WWII, Army
*George Sidney McCall (1943, 46-48) — Austin — WWII, Navy
Jerry McCauley (1945-46) — Lubbock — WWII, Army
George Howard “Hook” McCullough (1920-21) — Fayette, Missouri — WWI, Army
George Wendell McCullough (1919) — Waco — WWI and WWII, Navy and Army
Ned McDonald (1937-39) — Caldwell — WWII, Navy
*Lewis “Bud” McFadin (1948-50) — Iraan — Korean War, Air Force
William McGinnis (1943) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Navy
Roy Dale McKay (1941-42) — Junction — WWII, Navy Air Corps
Ray McLane (1893-95) — Laredo — Spanish-American War, Army
William Emmet McMahon (1900-01) — Savoy — WWI, Army; Judge Advocate General’s Office
Allen McMurrey (1915-16) — Cuero — WWI, hospital apprentice; WWII, Board of Examining Physicians
Claude Meadows (1928-29) — Waco — WWII, Navy
Kenneth Merritt (1944) — Dallas — WWII, Navy
Thomas Milik (1944) — Carteret, New Jersey — WWII, Navy
John Max Minor (1941-42) — Tahoka — Army and Air Force; West Point grad who retired as a colonel in 1975
Henry Mittermayer (1936-37) — South Bend, Indiana — WWII, Army Air Corps; As a civilian, he spent many years managing businesses on various U.S. military bases
Robert “Bobby” Moers (1938) — Houston — WWII, Army Air Corps
Fred West Moore (1916-17) — Austin — Navy
Murray Moore (1924-26) — Electra — WWII, Marines
Glen Morries (1942) — Temple — WWII, Army; killed in action on November 27, 1944
*Eldon Moritz (1956, 61) — Stamford — Army
William Murray (1911-13) — Floresville — WWI
Park Myers (1937-39) — Caldwell, Kansas — WWII, Army
Horace Neilson (1914) — Ladonia — WWI
*Thomas Runnels Newman (1918) — Garland — WWII, Army
Grady Niblo (1911, 13) — Dallas — Army
Robert Read Nunn (1917) — Corsicana — WWI
Guy Nunnelly (1945) — Port Arthur — WWII
Richard Ochoa (1950-52) — Laredo — Air Force
Dan O’Connell (1917) — Palestine — WWI, Navy
Jimmy Dan Pace (1951-52) — Kenedy — Army
*Dan Page (1950-51) — Leverett’s Chapel — Army
Jim Pakenham (1949) — Longview — Air Force
Joe Parker (1941-43) — Wichita Falls — WWII, Navy
Arlis Parkhurst (1956-58) — Colorado City — Marines
David Paul Parkinson (1952-54) — Baytown — Army
Rasmus Black “R.B.” Patrick, Jr. (1939) — Olney — WWII, Marines
Robert John Patterson (1942) — Texarkana, Arkansas — WWII, Army Air Force
Albert William Penn (1916-17, 19) — Austin — Navy
Marshall Pennington (1933-34) — Georgetown — WWII
Rufus Perry (1910-11) — Brownwood — Army
*Vernon Person (1954-55) — Gonzales — Army
*George Petrovich (1944, 1947-48) — Palestine — WWII, Army
Derwood Pevetto (1939, 41) — Port Arthur — WWII, Army Air Corps
Henry Charles Pfannkuche (1924-25) — San Antonio — Army
Charles Phillips (1943) — Paducah — WWII, Navy
*Paul William “Bill” Pitzer (1934-36) — Breckenridge — WWII, Air Force
Bradley Poronsky (2005) — Air Force Academy, Colorado — Air Force, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Billy Porter (1950) — Tyler — Marines
Melvin Preibisch (1933) — Sealy — WWII, Navy
Joseph Carlyle “Buck” Prejean (1931-33) — Orange — WWII, Army
Ed Price (football letterman, 1930-32; head football coach, 1951-56) — Corsicana — WWII, Navy
*Glen Price (1951-52) — Electra — Air Force
Ben Proctor (1948-50) — Austin — WWII, Navy
Leslie Proctor (1942) — Temple — WWI and Korean War, Marines
Nelson Puett Sr. (1911-12) — Temple — WWI, Army
Nelson Puett Jr. (1938-40) — Luling — WWII, Navy
*Raymond Ragone (1945) — Galveston — Navy
*Bobby Ray Raley (1950-52) — Bowie — Army
*Travis Raven (1946) — Austin — Air Force
William Jackson “Jack” Rhodes (1937-38) — Lexington — WWII, Navy
Walton Roberts (1941-42) — Tyler — WWII, Army
*Dick Rowan (1947-50) — Breckenridge — WWII, Army
Darrell Royal (head football coach 1957-1976) — Hollis, Oklahoma — WWII, Army Air Corps
Bennie Rundell (1931-33) — Austin — WWII, Army Air Force
Clarence Rundell (1926) — Austin — Navy
Jack Sachse (1941-42, 44) — Electra — Marines
Perry Samuels (1948-49) — San Antonio — Army, Navy
Orban “Spec” Sanders (1940-41) — Temple, Oklahoma — WWII
Philip Sanger (1933-34) — Waco — WWII, Navy
Mack Saxon (1925-26) — Temple — WWII, Navy
Richard Schulte (1957-59) — Hondo — Air Force
Joe Schwarting (1941-42) — Waco — WWII, Navy
Dale Schwartzkopf (1945-48) — La Crosse, Kansas — Navy
Wallace Scott (1941-42) — Tyler — WWII, Navy
Charles Lee Sens (1916, 21) — Cameron — Army
Hilliard Judge “Bubba” Shands Jr. (1947-50) — Lufkin — WWII, Army
Robert Pendexter “Dexter” Shelley (1931-33) — San Antonio — WWII, Army
Ney “Red” Sheridan (1934-36) — Sweetwater — WWII, Army Air Corps
Sylvan Simpson (1915) — Llano — WWI and WWII; Army
Joe Brevard Smartt (1933-35) — Austin — WWII
Pete Smith (1917) — Austin — WWI, Army Air Force; WWII, Navy
Pablo David Soliz (1986) — Falfurrias — Marines
Charles “Sonny” Sowell (1951) — San Antonio — Army
Mortimer “Bud” Sprague (1923-24) — Dallas — WWII, Army; graduated as a cadet from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1929, but resigned his commission shortly afterward. Volunteered for service in the Army in May of 1941 and was a colonel by the end of WWII.
Franklin Stacy (1922) — Austin — WWI, Army
*Maurice “Rosy” Stallter (1924-26) — Eastland — WWII, Army
Tom Stolhandske (1950-52) — Baytown — Army
*Ray Stone (1948-49) — Sabine — Navy
*Christopher Stroup (2001) — Killeen — Navy
*Stan Studer (1951) — Austin — Air Force
James Michael “Mike” Sweeney (1938, 40-41) — Amarillo — WWII, Army Air Force; killed in a plane crash in August 1944.
*Arthur Sweet (1945) — San Antonio — Navy
*Charlie Talbert (1961-63) — Texas City — Navy
*Don Talbert (1959-61) — Texas City — Vietnam, Army
David Thayer (1939-40) — Houston — WWII, Army Air Corps; flew over 50 combat missions and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Algernon Thweatt (1899) — Austin — Spanish-American War
Herbert Tigner (1926-28) — Houston — WWII, Army
*Patrick Mitchell Tolar (1953-55) — San Antonio — Vietnam, Air Force
James Wade “Jim” Tolbert (1933, 35) — Farmersville — WWII, Army Air Corps
*William Arthur “Billy” Trabue (1916-17) — Waxahachie — WWI, Army
Mike Trant (1954-56) — Tyler — Navy
*Ares Tsirtis (2003) — Richardson — Air Force
Charles Edward Turner (1913-15) — Roswell, New Mexico — WWI, Army
Conrad Eugene Van Ghent (head football coach 1916) — Ottumwa, Iowa — WWI, Army
Victor Fredrick “Vic” Vasicek (1946-48) — El Campo — Marines
Jake Verde (1934) — Beaumont — Army
Morgan Vining (1910) — Austin — WWI
Homer Waits (1916-17) — San Antonio — Marines
Frank Bert Walker (1914-15) — Azle — WWI
Jack Carpenter Wallace, Sr. (1945) — Edinburg — WWII, Navy
George Watkins (1941-42) — San Saba — WWII, Marines
Jimmie Watson (1944) — Midland — WWII, Army
Don Weedon (1939, 46) — Bryan — WWII, Army Air Corps
Woodrow Weir (1933-35) — Georgetown — WWII, Navy
Jack West (1941-42) — Waco — WWII, Navy
Harlan Wetz (1943-46) — New Braunfels — longtime National Guard officer, retired as a major
Tom Wetzel (1933) — Comanche — WWII, Navy
Berry Whitaker (head football coach 1920-22) — Anderson, Indiana — WWI, Army
Theron Wilbanks (1928) — Greenville — Army Air Corps
*Emmett Lee Wilkerson (1905) — Corsicana — WWI, Army
Don Williams (1938-40) — Amarillo — WWII, Korea; Air Force
*Joel Williams (1947) — San Angelo — WWII, Navy
Hugh Wolfe (1934, 36-37) — Stephenville — WWII, Army Air Force
Stuart Wright (1924-25) — Dallas — WWII, Korean War; Air Force, retired as a major general
*Wesley Lee Wyman (1955-57) — Austin — Army
*William Wyman (1955-57) — Austin — Army
We owe all of these men above a debt of gratitude for their service. Here’s a “Thank you” to all of them, and Happy Veterans Day to any vets who happen read this post, regardless of your collegiate affiliation or fandom.