The last was converted on a Street pass, thrown under duress and short, that was caught by a diving Speyrer just before it hit the ground. In the 4th quarter, down by 3, he initiated a game-winning touchdown drive that featured two fourth down conversions. In the 1970 Cotton Bowl, Street led the Longhorns to a come-from-behind win after Notre Dame took a 10-point lead. The Longhorns were declared National Champions by President Richard Nixon, who had attended the game. In that game he ran for a crucial 42-yard touchdown and hit Randy Peschel on a game-saving fourth-and-3 to set up the winning touchdown. The Arkansas game is the one for which he is best known. He threw for 200 yards and was named one of the game's three "Outstanding Players."Īs a starting quarterback in his senior campaign, he led the Longhorns to a perfect season, beating Arkansas in " The Game of the Century" for one half of the National Championship and Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic for the other half. In that game he twice broke the school record for longest touchdown pass in a bowl game, first with a 78-yard TD pass to Cotton Speyrer in the 1st quarter and then with a 79-yard TD pass in the 3rd. He ended his junior year playing what may have been the best game of his career in the 1969 Cotton Bowl against Tennessee. He engineered the Longhorns' offense from that game to the 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic, reeling off 20 straight wins without a loss. Despite running up 22 points in the 3rd quarter, Texas would lose that game, but Street would never find himself on the losing side again. Get in there," Royal reportedly said when replacing Bradley with Street. After tying #11 Houston in the first game and a slow start in the second against Texas Tech, Street took over at quarterback. That year, Darrell Royal and assistant Emory Bellard introduced the wishbone. Īfter playing only a handful of plays in two blowout games in 1967, Street came into the 1968 season as the backup to Bill Bradley. Street arrived at Texas as a seventh-string quarterback in 1966. His brother Sewell Street played two years of minor league baseball in the Cardinals organization in Wytheville and Keokuk. At Longview High School he lettered in football, baseball, basketball and track, but was not heavily recruited. James worked odd jobs in junior high and high school to help feed him and his twin sister. He had a hardscrabble childhood that became more difficult at 12 when his parents divorced and his father moved back to Oklahoma. James Street was born in 1948 in Longview, Texas, the son of Helen Frederick (Eaton) and Grover Wilson Street, Sr. As a pitcher he was a two time All-American who threw the only perfect game in University of Texas history. As quarterback, he led the team to the 1969 National Championship in football and posted a perfect 20-0 record, the most wins without a loss in Longhorns history. James Lowell Street (Aug– September 30, 2013) was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Texas. 1970 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions.1969 Southwest Conference Football Champions.
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1969 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions.1968 Southwest Conference Football Champions.1968 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions.Most yards on touchdown passes in a Cotton Bowl (157).Most yards per attempt in a Cotton Bowl (15.4).Highest Longhorn Winning percentage, career (20-0).Longest pass and longest touchdown pass by Longhorn in a bowl game, (79).2000 Inductee to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.1999 Inductee to the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame.1982 Inductee to the Longhorn Baseball Hall of Honor.
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