After teaching and becoming a higher educational administrator, Lauro Cavazos Jr. in 1980 returned to Texas Tech where he became the first Mexican-American and first alumnus to serve as the ...

A second-team All-American in 1953, Bobby Cavazos held Texas Tech football scoring record for 26 years, TDs record for 36 years. He was the brightest star on one of Tech's greatest teams.

When Cavazos was appointed president of Texas Tech, he laid the foundation for Tech to become the tier one Carnegie research institution it is today. “He was very particular about protecting that ...