Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Football
Chuck Hughes Hughes played football at Abilene High and was a 2004 posthumous inductee. After a record-setting career at the University of Texas-El Paso (including a national record 349 yards receiving in one game), Hughes played five years in the NFL for the...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Football
Bob Harrison Harrison played for legendary coach and fellow Big Country Hall of Famer, Gordon Wood, at Stamford. He was honored as the nation’s top lineman in 1958 at Oklahoma and was among the top vote getters for the Heisman Trophy as a senior. He played nine...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Football
Clyde “Bulldog” Turner Turner graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1936 and was an All-American football player at Hardin-Simmons University. He played 12 seasons for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League and made All-Pro eight times as a center and...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Football
David Parks Parks, a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, was an All-American receiver at Texas Tech after graduating from Abilene High in 1960. He was the first player picked in the 1964 National Football League draft. He played 10 years for the San Francisco...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Football
John Kimbrough Kimbrough played high school football at Haskell and Abilene. He was twice named an All-American running back at Texas A&M and helped the unbeaten Aggies claim the national championship in 1939. He was a B-24 pilot in World War II and played...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Hollis Gainey Gainey was an All-State running back at Colorado City in 1954 and is a member of the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. But he made his mark in track. He won the 100- and 220-yard dashes at the state high school track meet in 1954 and 1955 and...
