UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ATHLETICS ARCHIVES
COURAGE BEYOND THE GAME Remembering Freddie Steinmark, the Scrappy University of Texas Football Player Whose Heroic Story Riveted a Nation BY JIM DENT
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jim Dent is the author of Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story, a biography of The University of Texas football hero scheduled for release this month by St. Martin’s Press. Dent, a New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell With Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team, previews 1 4 TEXAS CO-OP POWER August 2011
Steinmark’s biography in this story written exclusively for Texas Co-op Power. To read more of Dent’s work, go to TexasCoopPower.com (“Mighty Mites,” December 2009) for a story about the legendary Masonic Widows and Orphans Home football team. Of all the players in the glorious history of University of Texas Long-
horns football, the late Freddie Steinmark remains one of the most loved and revered. “In his short time at Texas, Freddie became a hero,” current Longhorns Head Football Coach Mack Brown wrote in the prologue to Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story, a new biography of the hard-hitting safety whose heroic story riveted the nation. “Not