Harley Clark and Hook ’em Horns

Col I met Harley Clark in 2005 while attending a 50th anniversary celebration in Austin of the “Hook ’em Horns” sign that his buddy  invented one night while making shadow figures on the wall of a dorm room.  Clark, who was the University of Texas head cheerleader in 1955, introduced the sign to the world at a pep rally where he unilaterally proclaimed the symbol for the Longhorns was now the official hand signal of the university.  Sports Illustrated called it the best-known sports gesture in the world. Somehow I ended up walking in a parade down the Drag in front of campus the Friday...

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I met Harley Clark in 2005 while attending a 50th anniversary celebration in Austin of the “Hook ’em Horns” sign that his buddy  invented one night while making shadow figures on the wall of a dorm room.  Clark, who was the University of Texas head cheerleader in 1955, introduced the sign to the world at a pep rally where he unilaterally proclaimed the symbol for the Longhorns was now the official hand signal of the university.  Sports Illustrated called it the best-known sports gesture in the world. Somehow I ended up walking in a parade down the Drag in front of campus the Friday...

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