The Burnt Orange Coffin

by Bill Holchak

Summary

It is recruit signing day, and the greatest high school football player in the history of Texas sports is scheduled to make his official commitment to play for the burnt orange of the University of Texas. But the expected celebration at the UT Alumni Center in Austin turns into a wake when it is learned that the boy and his father have been found murdered at their remote ranch home near the headwaters of the Frio and Nueces Rivers in southwest Texas.