That game was critical for Texas' first national championship. The comeback was very late in the game and the first Aggie interception could have sealed the A&M win but the interceptor tried to lateral at the last second and Texas recovered with a new first down. Then the second potential interception at the back of the end zone, you'll notice a fellow in a brown coat gesturing incomplete wildly. That fellow was Bill Little, then the sports editor for the student newspaper and became the longtime Sports Information Director at the University of Texas. Aggies have always wondered what he was doing on the field and whether his gesturing swayed the referees. This was, of course, long before video replays so, once the call was made, that was the ruling.
I do remember Kern Tips (sounds a bit like Keith Jackson) but I didn't pay attention to football until later in the decade. I remember when the annual Thanksgiving Game with A&M was not on TV, so radio was the only way to follow the outcome.
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