Ah, yes, Geewago, Clyde, Texas, the home of one of the finest but least known running backs in Baylor history, Allan Jones, who once hit 9.5 in the one hundred yard dash, weighed in at close to 200 lb., and played with Cotton Davidson, L.G. Dupree, and Jerry Coody in a backfield that in 1953 was known nationally as the "Fearsome Foursome."
I know that George Sauer was a fine coach and the Baylor offense was rightly thought to be one of the best in the country, but I thought then as I do now that Jones was under utilized. Coody and Davidson were All Conference and Dupree was probably touted at least as much, so that did not leave a lot of carries for Allan Jones, but he was strong and had blazing speed, and of the running backs we had he was far and away the one most likely to break a long one, which he occasionally did. I went out and watched a practice one day and he took it to the end zone six straight times from the fifty yard line against the second defensive unit. If you could have combined Dupree's elusiveness with the speed of Jones you would have had one extraordinary running back.
I had an older brother and sister who went to Hardin Simmons and I spent most of the summer of 1948 out there.
I hunted around the area, Merkel and Abilene, mostly rabbits and squirrels, and probably had the best time of my boyhood out there, so I have a residual affection for the area that reflects my fifteen year old experience in the early post-WW II years. Thanks for reminding me of all that.
