EARL CAMPBELL THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK E A R L C A M P B E L L YARDS AFTER CONTACT ASHER PRICE university of texas press, austin Copyright © 2019 by Asher Price All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2019 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Price, Asher, author. Title: Earl Campbell : yards after contact / Asher Price. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018052872 isbn 978-1-4773-1649-8 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-1-4773-1907-9 (library ebook) isbn 978-1-4773-1908-6 (non-library ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Campbell, Earl. | Football players—United States—Biography. | African American football players—Biography. Classification: LCC GV939.C36 P75 2019 | DDC 796.332092 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052872 doi:10.7560/316498 For my parents and my brothers THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART I T YLER 14 PART II AUSTIN 68 PART III HOUSTON 172 Epilogue 239 Acknowledgments 261 Notes 265 Index 305 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK EARL CAMPBELL