Jenna Hays McEachern

Decades after his last game in 1976, Darrell K Royal remains “The Coach,” the winningest football coach in University of Texas history. The driving force behind 11 Southwest Conference and three national championships, winner of Coach of the Year and Coach of the Decade awards, and honored namesake of the Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Royal is still revered as “a coach who would rather lose a game than engage in unsportsmanlike tactics; who would neither make excuses for losing nor brag about winning; and who by his own example contributes to the building of stalwart character in men,” in the words of the City of Austin’s “Darrell Royal Day” proclamation. DKR: The Royal Scrapbook offers an intimate, insider’s view of the private life of the man behind the legend through an extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, football ephemera, recollections, and “Royalisms” lovingly preserved by Royal’s wife of more than 65 years. Jenna Hays McEachern is the author of 100 Things Longhorn Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. She edited One Heartbeat: A Philosophy of Teamwork, Life, and Leadership and One Heartbeat II: The Road to the National Championship, both written by Mack Brown and Bill Little. McEachern and Little also coedited What It Means to Be a Longhorn, a compilation of oral histories by Darrell Royal and other Texas football greats.

At the Festival: DKR: The Royal Scrapbook DKR: The Royal Scrapbook Sunday, October 28 AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center (700 Congress)