The Frenship Tigers, Wolfforth, Texas, ten miles southwest of Lubbock, on the South Plains of Texas, 1954 Posted by Jack Moss, teammate, a guard or tackle. Jack went on to play college football at Hardin-Simmons University, under head coach, Sammy Baugh, Slinging Sammy Baugh, a legendary quarterback who played pro ball for the Washington Redskins. Jack then became a renowned athletic director in Waco, Texas, and, now, a great western artist. I played basketball for a couple of years at Hardin-Simmons when Jack was there. I gave up my athletic career in my sophomore year and transferred to Texas Tech, eventually becoming a college professor of business at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia. After we won 11 out 11 football games my eighth grade year, our winning one game and tying one my freshman year (this team this picture), was quite a letdown; but it was a very memorable year. We had great coaches, Joe Moring on the right side of the picture and Jerry Helmer on the left, and they laid the foundation this year for two winning seasons my junior and senior years. A great bunch of teammates. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, I was probably the youngest and smallest Class A starting quarterback in the United States that year, 1954, at age 13, 110 pounds, and 53 tall, number 37 in the picture (fourth from the left, second row from the botton, Jack Moss being next to me on my left), the same number Doak Walker had at SMU, probably a distant relative, which I documented in my book, Business Voyages: Mental Maps, Scripts, Schemata, and Tools for Discovering and Co-Constructing Your Own Business Worlds. Richard John Stapleton, effectivelearning.net, November 13, 2013
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:27:08 +0000