{"id":278071,"date":"2013-09-30T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=278071"},"modified":"2013-10-01T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:06:42","slug":"former-longhorn-quarterback-longview-native-james-street-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=278071","title":{"rendered":"Former Longhorn Quarterback, Longview Native James Street Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=278072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-278072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/09\/mrjamestreet-150x150.png\" alt=\"mrjamestreet\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-278072\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Former Texas quarterback and Longview native James Street has died at 65.  Street took over the Longhorns&#8217; wishbone offense and led them to the 1969 national championship. Serena Fitchard of the James Street Group said Street died early Monday but that no other details were immediately available.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Street started the 1968 season as a backup but was made the starter after two games. He led Texas to 20 consecutive victories, including the &#8220;Game of the Century&#8221; with Arkansas in 1969, a come-from-behind, 15-14 victory by the top-ranked Longhorns over No. 2 Arkansas to cap the regular season.  The Texas-Arkansas game was attended by President Richard Nixon. After the Longhorns&#8217; victory, Nixon declared Texas the national champions.  Street later went on to a career in finance and structured settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Former Texas quarterback and Longview native James Street has died at 65. Street took over the Longhorns&#8217; wishbone offense and led them to the 1969 national championship. Serena Fitchard of the James Street Group said Street died early Monday but that no other details were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 18:58:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278089,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278071\/revisions\/278089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}