Michael Barry Cotten was an American football player who was the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns and the Quantico Marines in the early 1960s.
10 Facts About Mike Cotten
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Mike Cotten was an All-Southwest Conference back in 1961 and the Outstanding Back in the 1962 Cotton Bowl.
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Mike Cotten was born in Uvalde, Texas, in 1939 but after moving with his family to Amarillo in 1943 he landed in Austin in 1946, with a 1-year detour to Abilene in 1949, and went to high school in Austin and, by coincidence lived in the same neighborhood as Darrell Royal at the time.
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Mike Cotten was an All-District, All-State and All-America quarterback who led Austin High School to the state semi-finals and their last playoff win in of the 20th century.
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Mike Cotten played catcher and center field on the school's state championship baseball team.
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Mike Cotten made the all-tournament team his senior year and played a little baseball in college.
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In 1961 Mike Cotten was quarterback and co-captain of the first Darrell Royal Longhorn team to contend for the national title.
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Undrafted by the NFL, Mike Cotten graduated from Texas in 1962 and after joining a Marine Corps program as a freshman, received a commission from the Marines.
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Mike Cotten studied for his juris doctor from the University of Texas School of Law while serving as a graduate assistant football coach for Texas.
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Captain Mike Cotten then did a tour in Vietnam and was stationed in Da Nang where he served in a legal billet.