Darrell K Royal
Royal in 1966
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 6, 1924 Hollis, Oklahoma |
| Died | November 7, 2012 (aged 88) Austin, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 1946–1949 | Oklahoma |
| Position(s) | Quarterback, defensive back |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1950 | NC State (assistant) |
| 1951 | Tulsa (assistant) |
| 1952 | Mississippi State (off. backs) |
| 1953 | Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1954–1955 | Mississippi State |
| 1956 | Washington |
| 1957–1976 | Texas |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1962–1980 | Texas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 184–60–5 (college) |
| Bowls | 8–7–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 National (1963, 1969–1970) 11 SWC (1959, 1961–1963, 1968–1973, 1975) |
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| Awards | |
| 2× Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1961, 1963) 2× AFCA Coach of the Year (1963, 1970) 2× Sporting News College Football COY (1963, 1969) Paul "Bear" Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (2010) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1983 (profile) |
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Darrell K Royal (July 6, 1924 – November 7, 2012) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas at Austin (1957–1976), compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships (1963, 1969, and 1970), 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for one season in 1953. He never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career. Royal played football at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 to 1949. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.
"K" is Royal's given middle name, not an abbreviation. He received it in honor of his mother, Katy, who died when he was an infant. She died of cancer, but because of the stigma surrounding the disease at that time, Royal was led to believe until he was an adult that she had died giving birth to him.
In 1942, during World War II, Royal finished Hollis High School, where he had played football. He joined the United States Army Air Corps, where he played football for the 3rd Air Force team during 1945 and was spotted and recruited by scouts for the University of Oklahoma Sooners football program. He played quarterback and defensive back at the University of Oklahoma under his mentor, coach Bud Wilkinson, from 1946 to 1949. While attending Oklahoma, he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
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