James Street ( quarterback ) James Lowell Street ( August 2 , 1948 – September 30 , 2013 ) was a two - sport star athlete at the University of Texas . As quarterback , he led the team to the 1969 National Championship in football and posted a perfect 20 - 0 record , the most wins without a loss in Texas history . As a pitcher he was a two time All - American who threw the last perfect game in Longhorn history . Early life . James Street was born in Longview , Texas in 1948 to Helen and Grover Street . He had a hardscrabble childhood that became more difficult at 12 when his parents divorced and his father moved back to Oklahoma . James worked odd jobs in junior high and high school to help feed him and his twin sister . At Longview High School he lettered in football , baseball , basketball and track ; but was not heavily recruited . Football career . Street arrived at Texas as a seventh - string quarterback in 1966 . After playing only a handful of plays in two blowout games in 1967 , Street came into the 1968 season as the backup to Bill Bradley . That year , Darrell Royal and assistant Emory Bellard introduced the wishbone . After tying # 11 Houston in the first game and a slow start in the second against Texas Tech , Street took over at quarterback . " Hell , you can ’ t do any worse . Get in there , " Royal reportedly said when replacing Bradly with Street . Despite running up 22 points in the 3rd quarter , Texas would lose that game , but Street would never find himself on the losing side again . He engineered the Longhorns ' offense from that game to the 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic , reeling off 20 straight wins without a loss . He ended his junior year playing what may have been the best game of his career in the 1969 Cotton Bowl against Tennessee . In that game he twice broke the school record for longest touchdown pass in a bowl game , first with a 78 yard TD pass to Cotton Spreyer in the 1st quarter and then with a 79 yard TD pass in the 3rd . He threw for 200 yards and was named one of the game ' s three " Outstanding Players . " As a starting quarterback in his senior campaign , he led the Longhorns to a perfect season , beating Arkansas in " The Game of the Century " for one half of the National Championship and Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic for the other half . The Arkansas game is the one for which he is best known . In that game he ran for a crucial 42 - yard touchdown and hit Randy Peschel on a game - saving fourth - and - 3 to set up the winning touchdown . The Longhorns were declared National Champions by President Richard Nixon who had attended the game . In the 1970 Cotton Bowl , Street led the Longhorns to a come - from - behind win after Notre Dame took a 10 point lead . In the 4th quarter , down by 3 , he initiated a game - winning touchdown drive that featured two fourth down conversions . The last was converted on a Street pass , thrown under duress and short , that was caught by a diving Spreyer just before it hit the ground . Texas scored the game - winning touchdown with 1 : 08 on the clock . After the game he was congratulated by former President Lyndon Johnson who had attended the game . Baseball career . Street was a 2nd Team All - American baseball player who posted a 29 - 8 record on the mound . He made the All - Southwest Conference Team 3 years in a row and was the team ' s MVP every year . He is the last Longhorn to throw a perfect game , in 1970 versus Texas Tech , and also threw a no - hitter in 1969 versus SMU . He helped Texas win three Southwest Conference titles and go to three straight College World Series , finishing as high as 3rd in 1970 . Later life . Street was drafted in the 31st Round of the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft by the Cleveland Indians , but after suffering an injury at the 1970 College World Series he chose not to play in the Cleveland Indians ' farm system , thereby ending his career . After struggling with alcohol , Street gave up drinking and in 1991 started a successful career as a structured settlement financial adviser , owning his own business , the James Street Group . He had five sons , including three who won National Championships playing baseball for Texas . His oldest son , from his first marriage , became an architect . From his second marriage to Janie Street he had four sons , San Diego Padres pitcher Huston Street , former Longhorn and minor league pitcher Juston Street , former Longhorn pitcher Jordan Street and Pepperdine infielder Hanson Street . Juston Street went into acting , and one of his first film appearances will be playing his father , James Street , in the film My All American . James Street died of a heart attack at his home in Austin , Texas , on September 30 , 2013 .