On August 15, the University of Texas Athletics Hall of Honor announced its 2023 induction class, which includes former Texas Longhorn football veterans Quan Cosby and Jonathan Scott. The 2023 induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, September 15.
Cosby and Scott were both four-year lettermen for UT and part of the 2005 national championship team, which is largely recognized as one of the best in NCAA football history. Scott was an All-American left lineman in his final season with the program, while Cosby was a 22-year-old freshman wide receiver in his first year of college athletics after four years of minor league baseball.
The Texas Athletics Hall of Honor was established in 1957 to recognize players, coaches, administrators, trainers, and other individuals who have contributed significantly to the University of Texas, both on and off the field. The first former Longhorn athlete named to the Hall in its inaugural induction class was Louis Jordan, a star guard on UT’s football team from 1911 to 1914 who became the first player from any Texas college to be named to a Walter Camp All-America team in 1914 and was killed in action four years later while serving in the United States Army during World War I.
The Hall of Honor will include no less than 213 former UT football lettermen (about 9% of the program’s all-time lettermen) among its number following the additions of Cosby and Scott. The most recent inductee in terms of when he last played for the Longhorns is Sam Acho, a 2022 inductee who was a senior during the 2010 football season. Nearly every UT football team from the program’s beginning through Sam Acho’s senior year is represented in the Hall of Honor. In fact, out of the 118 varsity football teams that UT had in that period of time, there are only three that do not have a single letterman in the Hall: the 1893 and 1894 teams (the first two official UT football squads), and the 1902 team.
