Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Baseball
Chuck Harrison Harrison played football and baseball at Abilene High. He was a two-sport star at Texas Tech, playing defensive end in front of E.J. Holub. But Harrison is considered Tech’s first star in baseball. In 1962, he not only hit .440 but he sported a 1.020...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Spike Dykes Dykes, a native of Ballinger, was a long-time high school and college coach in Texas. He spent the last 13 years of his career as the head football coach at Texas Tech, winning 82 games as the school’s second winningest football coach. He led the Red...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Art Briles Briles was a star athlete at Rule High School, quarterback his team to the Class B state finals in 1973 and leading the track team to a state championship in 1974. After head coaching stops at Hamlin and Georgetown, Briles engineered the “Decade of...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Football
Randy Allen Abilene Cooper has played in only two state championship football games in school history, and Allen was involved in both. He played on the Cougars’ teams that reached the state finals in football in 1967 and baseball in 1968, and he then coached Cooper...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Golf
Billy Maxwell Maxwell was a graduate of St. Joseph Academy of Abilene. He won the U.S. Amateur golf tournament in 1951 and was a member of two national championship golf teams at North Texas State. He played on the PGA and Senior PGA Tour before retiring from...
Mar 18, 2013 | Lifetime Achievement for Officiating, Official
Shorty Lawson W. D. “Shorty” Lawson was named the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Officials in 2005. Lawson was a longtime assistant football and baseball coach at Abilene High and later replaced Hall of Fame member Chuck Moser as the AISD...
