In the annals of Texas Tech football, the 1967 team might go underappreciated. They finished third in the nation in rushing offense, thanks in no small part to an interior line with Phil Tucker ...

Phil Tucker was one of the Texas Tech football program's most acclaimed linemen. The Southwest Conference Hall of Famer died ...

All three would eventually make the Texas Tech Athletics Hall of Fame. Tucker, a unanimous all-Southwest Conference choice that season and an all-American by the Newspaper Enterprise Association ...