James Street (quarterback)

James Street
College	Texas
Conference	Southwest Conference
Sport	Football, Baseball
Position	QB, Pitcher
Jersey #	16, 5
Class	1970
Career	1967–1970
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Born	(1948-08-02)August 2, 1948 Longview, Texas
Died	September 30, 2013(2013-09-30) (aged 65) Austin, Texas
High school	Longview High School
Career highlights
Awards
1969 Cotton Bowl "Offensive Outstanding Player" 1969 Texas Longhorn Football MVP
Honors
1968 All Southwest Conference Baseball 1968 2nd Team All-American Baseball 1969 All Southwest Conference Baseball 1969 2nd Team All-American Baseball 1969 All Southwest Conference Football 1970 All Southwest Conference Baseball 1982 Inductee to the Longhorn Baseball Hall of Honor 1999 Inductee to the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame 2000 Inductee to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
Records
Longest pass and longest touchdown pass by Longhorn in a bowl game, (79) Highest Longhorn Winning percentage, career (20-0) Most yards per attempt in a Cotton Bowl (15.4) Most yards on touchdown passes in a Cotton Bowl (157)
Championships
1968 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions 1968 Southwest Conference Football Champions 1969 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions 1969 Southwest Conference Football Champions 1969 National Football Champions 1970 Southwest Conference Baseball Champions
Bowl games
1969 Cotton Bowl 1970 Cotton Bowl
Tournaments
1968 College World Series 1969 College World Series 1970 College World Series

James Lowell Street (August 2, 1948 – September 30, 2013) was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Texas. 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. As a pitcher he was a two time All-American who threw the last perfect game in University of Texas history.

James Street was born in 1948 in Longview, Texas, the son of Helen Frederick (Eaton) and Grover Wilson Street. He had a hardscrabble childhood that became more difficult at 12 when his parents divorced and his father moved back to Oklahoma. James worked odd jobs in junior high and high school to help feed him and his twin sister. At Longview High School he lettered in football, baseball, basketball and track, but was not heavily recruited.

Street arrived at Texas as a seventh-string quarterback in 1966.

After playing only a handful of plays in two blowout games in 1967, Street came into the 1968 season as the backup to Bill Bradley. That year, Darrell Royal and assistant Emory Bellard introduced the wishbone. After tying #11 Houston in the first game and a slow start in the second against Texas Tech, Street took over at quarterback. "Hell, you can’t do any worse. Get in there," Royal reportedly said when replacing Bradley with Street. 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. He engineered the Longhorns' offense from that game to the 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic, reeling off 20 straight wins without a loss. He ended his junior year playing what may have been the best game of his career in the 1969 Cotton Bowl against Tennessee. 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 threw for 200 yards and was named one of the game's three "Outstanding Players."

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