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Tom Wilson (American Football)
Tom Wilson (February 24, 1944 – August 10, 2016) was an American football player and coach. He served as a head coach at the high school and collegiate level. He was the head football coach at Texas A&M University team from 1978 to 1981. Playing career Wilson played quarterback at Corsicana High School under coach Jim Acree. He graduated in 1962. He played college football at Texas Tech University under coach J. T. King. Coaching career Following his graduation from Texas Tech in 1966, Wilson became an assistant coach at Texas Tech under King and Jim Carlen, before heading to Texas A&M to join the coaching staff of Emory Bellard. After Bellard resigned in the midst of the 1978 season, Wilson was appointed head coach of the Aggies on October 24, 1978. He led the Aggies to a win in the 1981 Independence Bowl. He amassed a record of 21–19 during his three and a half seasons, before being replaced by Jackie Sherrill in 1982. In 1984 Wilson returned to his alma mater as off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsicana, Texas
Corsicana is a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 45, 56 miles northeast of Waco, Texas. The population was 23,770 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Navarro County, and an important Agri-business center. History Founded in 1848, Corsicana was named by José Antonio Navarro after the Mediterranean island of Corsica, the birthplace of his father. He had died when Navarro and his many siblings were young. The first school opened shortly afterwards in 1849. Women's groups have had a strong role throughout the history of the city. They established the Corsicana Female Literary Institute, a school that operated from 1857 through 1870. The first public library in Corsicana opened in 1901 by effort of the women's clubs of the city. A 1905 library matching gift by Andrew Carnegie gave the library a permanent home and its first full-time, professionally trained librarian. The library today is housed in a dedicated building downtown and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Independence Bowl
The 1981 Independence Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Texas A&M Aggies. Background The Cowboys finished tied for 3rd in the Big Eight Conference in their first bowl game since 1976. Meanwhile, the Aggies finished 5th in the Southwest Conference, in their first bowl game since 1978. Game summary In the first quarter, the Cowboys took a 10–0 lead on an Ernest Anderson touchdown run and a field goal. But the Aggies closed the quarter out with a field goal of their own to make it 10–3. As it turned out, the Cowboys were held to zero points for the next two quarters. The Aggies scored on another field goal to make it 10–6. Jimmie Williams and Gary Kubiak connected for two touchdown catches of 50 and 38 yards to give the Aggies a 20–10 halftime lead. Another field goal (this from 50 yards) by the Aggies made it 23–10 after three quarters. After an 18 yarder to make it 26–10, the Aggies scored one last time, as Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season saw the Alabama Crimson Tide bring home a national title with a perfect 12–0 season. The title was Alabama's 11th claimed, and their 6th Associated Press awarded title. This was an extremely dominant Alabama team, only giving up 67 points the entire season and shutting out five opponents. The team won a tight game against LSU 3–0 and beat Auburn by a touchdown before beating Arkansas 24–9 in the Sugar Bowl. There was very little movement at the top of the rankings throughout the season, as only three different teams held the top spot in the AP poll and only two in the UPI poll. USC was the pre-season top-ranked team, and held the number one ranking until a 21–21 tie with Stanford, a game USC led at halftime 21–0. A fumbled hold on the snap from center cost the Trojans a chance at a last-second field goal. Stanford was led by quarterback Turk Schonert, while freshman John Elway served as his backup. USC ended up finishing seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Hall Of Fame Classic
The 1978 Hall of Fame Classic was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Texas A&M Aggies and the Iowa State Cyclones. Background The Cyclones had finished 8-3 for the third straight year, going from being tied for 4th to 2nd to 3rd, respectively. This was their fourth bowl game of the decade. Emory Bellard had resigned as Aggie head coach after a 4-0 start led to two straight losses in Southwest Conference play. Tom Wilson led the Aggies to a 3-2 record down the stretch to get A&M to their fourth straight bowl season. Game summary Curtis Dickey ran for 278 yards on 34 carries while scoring a touchdown. Second Quarter *Iowa State: Green 5 pass from Grant (kick failed) *Texas A&M: Brothers 1 run (Franklin kick) *Texas A&M: Carter 4 pass from Mosley ( Franklin kick) 3rd QUARTER *Iowa State: Green 28 run (pass failed) 4th Quarter *Texas A&M: Dickey 19 run (Franklin kick) *Texas A&M: Armstrong 5 run (Franklin kick) Aftermath Bruce left for his alma mater Ohio S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Texas A&M Aggies Football Team
The 1978 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Emory Bellard Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011) was a college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard died on February 10, 2011 a ... in his seventh season through the first six games before his resignation on October 24. Tom Wilson was named interim coach and led the Aggies in their final six games. and finished with a record of eight wins and four losses (8–4 overall, 4–4 in the SWC) and with a victory in the Hall of Fame Classic. Schedule Roster References Texas AandM Texas A&M Aggies football seasons All-American Bowl champion seasons Texas AandM Aggies football {{Collegefootball-1970s-season-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first season of Division I-A college football; Division I-A was created in 1978 when Division I was subdivided into Division I-A and Division I-AA for football only. With the exception of seven teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), Division I teams from the 1977 season played in Division I-A during the 1978 season. The SWAC teams, along with five conferences and five other teams formerly in Division II, played in Division I-AA. The Division I-A season came down to a rare No. 1 vs. No. 2 post-season meeting as No. 1 Penn State and No. 2 Alabama met in the New Year's Day Sugar Bowl. The game is most remembered for Alabama's goal line stand with four minutes left in the game. On fourth down and a foot, Alabama managed to keep Penn State out of the end zone and went on to win, 14–7. Keith Jackson, who did the play by play for ABC, called it the greatest game he'd ever seen. 76,824 people packed the Louisiana Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Conference
The Southwest Conference (SWC) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996. Composed primarily of schools from Texas, at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma and Arkansas. For most of its history, the core members of the conference were Texas-based schools plus one in Arkansas: Baylor University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, Texas Tech University, the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas at Austin. After a long period of stability, the conference's overall athletic prowess began to decline throughout the 1980s, due in part to numerous member schools violating NCAA recruiting rules, culminating in the suspension of the entire SMU football program ("death penalty") for the 1987 and 1988 seasons. Arkansas, after years of feeling like an outsider in the conference, left after the 1990–91 school year to join the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas City High School
Texas City High School (TCHS) is a public high school in Texas City, Texas, in the Greater Houston area. It is one of two high schools in the Texas City Independent School District (TCISD), the other being La Marque High School. The main school building for Texas City High opened in 1952. Another building for Texas City High opened in 1957, and the previous one became Blocker Junior High School. , Texas City High School had 1,791 students. Academics Texas City High School is ranked #11,174 in the National Rankings and ranked #1,036 within Texas, according to U.S. News & World Report. 58% of students are proficient in Reading, while 69% of students are proficient in Mathematics. TCHS' student graduation rate is 88%. Athletics Texas City High School competes as a member of the University Interscholastic League who creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, musical, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Texas. Teams are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Sims
Billy Ray Sims (born September 18, 1955) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1980s. Sims played college football for the University of Oklahoma, where he was a two-time consensus All-American, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1978. He was the first overall pick in the 1980 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the NFL's Detroit Lions. Sims was the last Oklahoma player taken Number 1 overall in the NFL Draft until quarterback Sam Bradford was taken first in the 2010 NFL Draft.Tramel, Jimmie"Distant dreams: Billy Sims watches as new Sooner generation makes it big."Tulsa World, September 5, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2014. He was given the nickname "Kung Fu Billy Sims" by ESPN's Chris Berman, after a game where the Detroit Lions played the Houston Oilers. In the NFL Films highlight, rather than be tackled during a rushing attempt, Sims ran at, jumped, and, while f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Strait
Robert Strait (born November 14, 1969) is a former American football running back. Strait is considered one of the best high-school football players in Texas history. While playing at Cuero High School from 1985–88, Strait rushed for 8,411 yards on a state-record 1,131 carries, and scored 841 points. He had 41 games with more than 100 yards rushing for his career, with was then second to Emmitt Smith's national record of 45 games and was the Texas state record until Wes Danaher broke the record in 1995 with 43 100-yard games. In 1987, Strait scored 372 points, which is second in Texas football history only to Ken Hall (395 points in 1953), while Cuero High won the 3A state championship. In 1985 and 1986, Cuero had lost the title game. Considered the state's top recruit in 1989 alongside Jessie Armstead, Strait accepted a scholarship offer by Grant Teaff to play for Baylor University. At the time, he was considered “the most heralded recruit in Baylor school history.” In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketric Sanford
Ketric Sanford (born July 6, 1978) is a former American football running back. A native of Corsicana, Texas, Sanford played high school football at Corsicana High School under coach Tom Wilson from 1993 to 1995. Sanford carried the ball 1,058 times and, as of 2020, was sixth all-time in Texas high school football behind Johnathan Gray, Jacquizz Rodgers, Robert Strait, Billy Sims, and Eno Benjamin. During the 1994 season he carried the ball 475 times, setting a state record for rushing attempts in a single season that held until 2010. Dave Campbell's Texas Football. Retrieved 2020-12-25. He played collegiately at the , where he finished his ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Moore (American Football, Born 1939)
Gerald Hundley Moore (born July 18, 1939) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at North Texas State University—now the University of North Texas—from 1979 to 1980, at Texas Tech University from 1981 to 1985, and at Appalachian State University from 1989 to 2012, compiling a career college football coaching record of 242–134–2. In his 24 years at Appalachian State, Moore posted a losing season only once. He led his 2005 Mountaineers team to the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. This was the first national championship for any college football team in the state of North Carolina. Moore and the Mountaineers repeated as champions in 2006 and 2007, achieving the first "three-peat" in NCAA Division I FCS/I-AA history. Moore was forced out as head coach at the conclusion of the 2012 season. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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