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James Street
« on: September 30, 2013, 10:28:23 am »
died today at 65
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Re: James Street
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2013, 10:57:40 am »
Quote from: JimR on September 30, 2013, 10:28:23 am
died today at 65

It's hard to be perfect but he was 20-0 at Texas.  Heckofa QB.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2013, 11:07:12 am »
Quote from: Duke on September 30, 2013, 10:57:40 am
It's hard to be perfect but he was 20-0 at Texas.  Heckofa QB.

and RHP
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Re: James Street
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2013, 11:09:16 am »
That's way too young.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2013, 11:37:44 am »
team will wear helmet decals honoring him on Thursday, per Mack.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2013, 02:12:08 pm »
helmets will be crowded

my James Street story:

during the 1968 baseball season, I was a graduate assistant baseball coach under Gustafson. my primary responsibility was the JV team (freshmen were eligible for the varsity), but I would help him in practice if he needed me and my team was not practicing. one day when I was helping CG, he said he had a job for me. the task was to run Street and Bill Bradley as punishment for some transgression. so, there I was, the epitome of a UT sports nobody, making James Street and Bill Bradley run because they had broken Gustafson's rules in some respect. to their great credit, they treated me like a coach and took their punishment without telling me to go f myself and walking off.

Bradley's knee injury hampered his baseball play at SS, and he quit playing. CG was happy he quit because he thought Bradley was a bad influence on Street.

RIP. I taught Janie Street in HS summer school one year. she still is very much alive.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2013, 02:43:48 pm »
Quote from: JimR on September 30, 2013, 02:12:08 pm
I taught Janie Street in HS summer school one year. she still is very much alive.

She was one year ahead of me in school. We all thought she was the most beautiful girl we'd ever seen, or were ever likely to see.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2013, 03:03:17 pm »
Quote from: Ron Brand on September 30, 2013, 02:43:48 pm
She was one year ahead of me in school. We all thought she was the most beautiful girl we'd ever seen, or were ever likely to see.

Janie and Jeanie Pedro.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2013, 03:07:08 pm »
Quote from: JimR on September 30, 2013, 03:03:17 pm
Janie and Jeanie Pedro.

And Ginny, who was in my grade.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2013, 03:07:46 pm »
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Re: James Street
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2013, 05:01:28 pm »
Class guy. RIP. I loved that team with Street, Worster, Bertelson, Koy, Cotton, and Happy.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2013, 05:04:57 pm »
Quote from: Ron Brand on September 30, 2013, 03:07:46 pm
This was a great day.

Had a high school teacher who used to re-enact this game for the class.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2013, 05:20:45 pm »
The 4th-and-3 pass to Randy Peschel, and the catch, is one football play I will never, ever forget. I was an impressionable 10-year-old watching the game with my overzealous UT dad that day, and I believe watching that play was the first time I really, fully understood the meaning of the phrase "balls to the wall."
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Re: James Street
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2013, 07:17:00 am »
Quote from: JimR on September 30, 2013, 02:12:08 pm
Bradley's knee injury hampered his baseball play at SS, and he quit playing. CG was happy he quit because he thought Bradley was a bad influence on Street.

You should hear the stories.  And I don't think it was all Bradley either.

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Re: James Street
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2013, 08:46:35 am »
Quote from: Dark Star on September 30, 2013, 05:20:45 pm
The 4th-and-3 pass to Randy Peschel, and the catch, is one football play I will never, ever forget. I was an impressionable 10-year-old watching the game with my overzealous UT dad that day, and I believe watching that play was the first time I really, fully understood the meaning of the phrase "balls to the wall."

Hell yes, I'm sure.
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Re: James Street
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2013, 09:14:29 am »
Quote from: Outlawscotty on October 01, 2013, 07:17:00 am
You should hear the stories.  And I don't think it was all Bradley either.



totally agree. Street was the better, more valuable player, though, so that is the way CG spun it.
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