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The 2012 race starts on Congress Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Texas State Capitol, and touches well-known Austin landmarks and areas, such as downtown, the Colorado River, the 78704 zip code, Hyde Park, and the University of Texas at Austin campus, passing by Memorial Stadium.
In World War II, the University lost many former players, including former coach Jack Chevigny.
Forrest B. Royal (1893–1945), a rear admiral in the United States Navy
Royal was born in Williamston, South Carolina, in 1921, the oldest boy of nine children of African-American and Native American descent.
The son of biochemist and microbiologist husband and wife team Gladys W. Royal and George C. Royal, Royal, who is described by Slide Hampton as "one of the important guys on the horn", grew up in Washington, DC.
He moved to Manatee County, Florida during the Great Depression and operated a passenger airplane service in the Bahamas and Cuba in the late 1930s.
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Royal and other divers, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, found human and animal bones in the spring, suggesting that the cave was inhabited in prehistoric times.