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There was a time when the only people on campus who dressed in strange clothes and excited unruly crowds to frenzy were called cheerleaders. The fall of 1963 was such a time, and there was no better place to be a cheerleader than the University of Texas. Eleven wins, no losses, UT’s first national championship, total dominance of Roger Staubach’s Navy team in the Cotton Bowl: all were carried out with a ruthless precision that made them seem preordained. Fourteen years later the memories come back crisp and clean: the band blaring out “Texas Fight,” the trumpets swaying in unison, the cheerleaders running onto the field at exactly the right moment, the backflips, the cartwheels, the team emerging from beneath the stands, the deep