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Darrell K Royal (July 6, 1924 – November 7, 2012) was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from 1954 to 1955, the University of Washington in 1956, and the University of Texas from 1957 to 1976, compiling a career record of 184 wins, 60 losses and five ties. During his 20-year tenure as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns, Royal's teams won three national championships and 11 Southwest Conference titles while finishing ranked in fifteen seasons. He amassed a record of 167–47–5 while in Austin and won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career.
Royal played college football as an All-American quarterback at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 to 1949 under coach Bud Wilkinson. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant coach at North Carolina State University and the University of Tulsa. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, the predecessor to the Canadian Football League (CFL), for one season in 1953.
From 1962 to 1980, Royal assumed the role of athletic director at Texas, succeeding Edwin Olle. Royal stepped down as head football coach after the 1976 season; two of his former assistant coaches, Fred Akers and David McWilliams, helmed the team for the next 15 years. In 1980, Royal moved to an advisory role under his successor DeLoss Dodds, before retiring in 1990. He was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1976, and the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play their home games, was renamed in his honor in 1996.