Robert Brewer is a former American football

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 player. He played quarterback

Quarterback

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 for the University of Texas

University of Texas at Austin

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 Longhorns

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 during the 1981

1981 NCAA Division I-A football season

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 and 1982 season

1982 NCAA Division I-A football season

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. His most memorable moment was the late touchdown he scored against Alabama

University of Alabama

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 to guide Texas to a 1982 Cotton Bowl Classic win.

A Richardson, Texas

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 native, Brewer was barely recruited out of high school

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. He made the Longhorns football team as a walk-on. Later he was awarded a scholarship

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 and finally got his chance halfway through his junior season. He won 13 games as starter

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. After graduation, Brewer work in the private sector, before returning to UT as assistant athletic director for development, in charge of raising funds through the Longhorn Foundation.

His father, Charley Brewer

Charley Brewer (quarterback)

Charley Brewer is a former American football player. He was the starting quarterback of the Texas Longhorns from 1953–1955. His son, Robert, was the starting quarterback for the Longhorns during the 1981 and 1982 season....

, was a Texas Longhorns quarterback 1953-55, while his son, Michael Brewer will become a senior at Lake Travis High School

Lake Travis High School

Lake Travis High School, is rated by the Texas Education Agency as an Exemplary secondary. The preparatory is located approximately 20 miles west of Austin, Texas and has been ranked by Newsweek as one of "America’s Best High Schools". LTHS serves students in grades nine through twelve who live in...

 of Austin, Texas

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 in fall 2010. He is considered one of the top Quarterback recruits in the United States for the 2011 Recruiting year, and has verbally committed to play football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders

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