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Bobby Wuensch, who earned All-American honors on the Texas football team’s 1969 and 1970 national championship squads, died over the weekend. He was 77.
Wuensch lettered at Texas from 1968-70. With Wuensch anchoring the offensive line while Texas leaned on its Wishbone formation, the Longhorns went 21-1 over the 1969 and 1970 seasons and won two national championships. A tackle, Wuensch remains one of 20 two-time first-team All-Americans in Longhorns history.
Wuensch was a consensus All-American in 1970 who also served as one of the team captains. During a pep rally for the Arkansas game that December, Wuensch was quoted in the Austin Statesman as telling a crowd of 35,000 fans that “we’re going to beat their — tomorrow.” Sure enough, No. 1 Texas then rolled to a 42-7 win over an Arkansas team that was ranked fourth at the time.
“Wuensch has the best attitude for football I’ve ever seen even if he is a little eccentric,” offensive lineman Bobby Mitchell told reporters that season. “He enjoys the game a lot — but then he’s put his whole life into it.”
“Wuensch is unique all right, but I wouldn’t have him any other way,” quarterback Eddie Phillips also said.
A 12th-round draft pick by the Baltimore Colts in 1971, Wuensch was inducted into the Texas Hall of Honor in 1990. The Houston native and Jones High product entered the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in 2023.
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas football All-American and national champion Bobby Wuensch dies