Texas high school track champions, 1905-2012 Updated, April 22, 2012 by Dr. William (Billy) Wilbanks Self-Published by Dr. Wilbanks on Computer Disc in 2005 & 2006 Placed on Internet website in May

Joe DeLoach, 1984-85
Joe DeLoach of Bay City won 3 gold in two years at the state track meet in 1984-85 and went on to win an NCAA championship in the 100-meters in 1988 and a gold medal in the 200-meters at the 1988 Olympics defeating the legendary Carl Lewis.
Joe DeLoach was born on June 5, 1967, in Bay City TX to Joe Deloach, Sr. & Dorothy DeLoac and is the youngest of 13 childrenBeleven girls and two boys. Joe’s first big success was winning the 200-meters & finishing 2^nd in the 100-meters at the national TAC meet at Duke when he was a soph.. As a junior in 1984 Joe won the Texas 4A 100-meters at 10.0 and the 200-meters in 21.0. His 100-meter time would have been a state record had it not been for a 3.8 meter wind (anything under 2 meters is allowable). His best times in the 100 and 200 as a junior were 2^nd in the nation among high school sprinters in 1984 and his “sprint double” propelled Bay City to the State 4A team championship. In the summer of 1984 Bay City Coach Marshall Brown and Joe went to CA for the Junior Olympic trials where Joe won the 100 and 200 meters. Also, in August of 1984 he won three gold medals (the 100 in 10.43; the 200 in 20.94; and the 400-meter relay in 40.09) in the Junior Pan Am Games in the Bahamas.
Joe returned to the state track meet as a senior in 1985 and again won the 200-meters in 20.4 (hand-timed and 20.44 automatically timed)Cthe 3^rd best high school mark in the nation in 1985. His 20.24 (auto timed) mark in 1985 is still ranked 2^nd all-time in TX to the 20.13 (adjusted) of Roy Martin. His 200-meter mark was a Conference 4A record from 1985-2001 and he held the national H.S. record for one day (breaking the 20.4 mark of Dewayne Evans of Phoenix) before Roy Martin of Dallas Roosevelt ran 20.0 the next day in the 5A state meet. Joe failed to repeat his sprint double when he lost a disputed (i.e., Joe was first announced as the winner) photo finish in the 100-meters to Corsicana’s Byron Grant in 10.1. His 10.21 (auto adjusted) mark in 1985 is still 5^th all-time in the history of TX. He ran in several national meets in the summer of 1985 with PB’s of 10.28 in the 100 and 20.24 in the 200-meters beating such notables as Carl Lewis and Roy Martin.
Joe was recruited by numerous universities for football (he was a receiver on Bay City’s top ranked teams of 1983-84) and track and chose to attend the University of Houston to work and train under Coach Tom Tellez and with such sprint legends as Carl Lewis. He had a dream year as a junior in 1988 winning the Southwest Conference 200-meters over Michael Johnson in 19.9 and the NCAA championship in the 100-meters at 10.03. In the summer of 1988 he won the 200-meters (and finished 5^th in the 100-meters) at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis beating Carl Lewis (for the first time) in a personal best of 19.96. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul the 200-meter event, held on Sept. 28, developed into a two-man race between Lewis and DeLoach, who trained together. Lewis had never lost an Olympic final and had never been caught from behind but DeLoach came from behind to defeat Lewis in 19.75Ban Olympic record and equaled the fastest 200-meter ever run at low altitude (and .03 off world record). Joe was honored in Bay City with a parade/ceremony at the football field on Aug. 6 and a banquet on Oct. 11. The Bay City community raised money to help send Joe’s family to Seoul. At the end of 1988 Joe was ranked #1 in the world in the 200 meters and #8 in the 100 meters but was never again ranked in the top ten in either event due to injuries.
In 2004 Joe DeLoach still ranks 2^nd on the all-time Texas H.S. list for the 200-meters at 20.24 behind only Roy Martin at 20.13. His 10.21 100-meter time still ranks 5^th all-time in TX to the 10.13 of Derrick Florence. He also ranks 6^th all-time in the U.S. for the outdoor 100-meters (10.03) & 4^th all-time in the U.S. outdoors for the 200-meters (19.75).
In 2004 Joe DeLoach lived in Houston with his wife, Melony, and three children, and sons, Joseph, 16, and Joshua, 13, and daughter, Micah, 10. He works as a systems analyst for BMC, a Fortune 500 company and one of the larger software development companies in the U.S. During the 2000 Olympics in Australia DeLoach worked with Reach-Out 2000 Sydney to serve as a lay witness for Christ International conducting sports clinics and speaking at athlete rallies. His Olympic gold medal is housed at the Matagorda County Museum in Bay City.

Earl C. “Mule” Frazier, 1917-1918
In 1918 Hillsboro won the Texas Class A high school track team championship with a 2-man brother team that scored 24 points to defeat 2^nd place Franklin (16 2/3 points). Earl C. Frazier scored 22 points (46 points by 2004 point scale) by winning four events and placing 3^rd in a fifth (the long jump). He won the 120 yd hurdles at 14.4 (matching his own state record), the 220 yard hurdles at 26.4 (a state record), the 100 yd dash at 10.4, and the 220 yd dash at 23.4. His brother Oscar scored the team’s other 2 points with a 3^rd in the 120 yd hurdles. A year earlier Earl had scored 13 points (placing his “one-man team” 3^rd in the team competition behind champion Georgetown’s 16) by winning the 120 yard dash at 14.4 (a state record) and 220 yd hurdles at 27.8 and finishing 3^rd in the 100 yd dash. Thus in two years Earl Frazier won 6 events at the state track meet giving his “team” a 3^rd place finish in 1917 and a 1^st place finish in 1918.
Earl C. Frazier ran track at Baylor University in 1919-21, 1923, where he was known as “Mule” Frazier and became Baylor’s first track All-American. During Frazier’s freshman year there was no track or track coach and yet the freshman Frazier was the star of the Southern A.A.U. in New Orleans where he won first in the junior division in the 120 yd hurdles and second in the 220 yd hurdles and the 100 & 220 yd dashes giving him individual high point honors. In his soph year Earl was placed in charge of building a cinder track at Baylor and a coach was chosen. Success came quickly for the Bears who won four of their first five meets and were 2^nd in the SWC meet though Frazier was sick for much of the 1920 season. He recovered in time to win both hurdles at the Southern A.A.U. At the national A.A.U. meet in CA, Frazier set two new world junior records in the 120 hurdles (15.2) and the 220 hurdles (24.4). He had twice broken the junior world record in the 220 hurdles earlier at New Orleans and Dallas.
In both 1921 & 1923 Mule won the SWC championship in both the 120 yd hurdles (15.8 in 1921 & 15.4 in 1923) and 220 yd hurdles (25.6 in 1921 & 24.6 in 1923). He broke a hurdles record held by Clyde Littlefield. Earl won both hurdles (setting a Southern record in the lows) at the 1921 Southern A.A.U. and was 3^rd in the 220 yd hurdles in the first ever NCAA meet in Chicago (qualifying him as an NCAA All-American). He won 1^st in the 120 yd and 220 yd hurdles and 100 yd dash at the 1923 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Assoc meet in New Orleans where he had won both hurdles in 1920-21 & 1923 (he missed the 1922 season because of injury). Frazier, the Baylor track captain in 1923, finished 5^th in the 220-yd low hurdles at the 1923 NCAA meet to become a two-time All-American. Mule was also a back on the Baylor football team in 1920.
Frazier narrowly missed making two U.S. Olympic teams as he finished 2^nd in both hurdle events at the Southern Olympic trials in New Orleans in 1920 and made the semi-finals in the 110meter hurdles at the national Olympic trials in Boston. Though his eligibility for collegiate meets ended after the 1923 track season, Frazier represented Baylor in the 1924 track season at several national meets (he twice pushed Illinois’ Riley to world records in the 400 meter hurdles during pre-Olympic trials meets) and won the 110 meter hurdles and the 400 meter hurdles at the Southern A.A.U. Olympic Trials in New Orleans. He was sent to New Orleans by the Baylor Chamber of Commerce (of which he was president). At the 1924 Olympic trials in Boston, Frazier was leading in the high hurdles when he hit a hurdle and fell, ending his track career.
Earl Craig Frazier was born in Hillsboro TX on Sept. 27, 1898, to Samuel H. and Minnie Craig Frazier. He graduated from Hillsboro H.S. in 1918 and he and his younger brother, S. Maurice, attended Baylor U. Earl graduated from BU in 1923 and coached at Mineral Wells in 1923-24. He became the first coach (of four sports) at San Antonio’s Alamo Heights in 1924 and served until 1928 (the team is still known as the “Mules after their original coach). Earl went into business as a manufacturer’s rep and sales manager in sporting goods. He organized his own company, E.C. Frazier & Associates, in 1946, and served as its president until his death on Dec. 5, 1972. Earl was survived by his fifth wife, Frances, and two brothers, S.M., and Oscar (who was a hurdler at A&M & a professor & coach at Tarleton State---“Frazier Field” at Tarleton is named for him), and is now buried in Fillmore Cemetery in Shreveport LA. One of his nephews is the world famous heart surgeon, O. Howard “Bud” Frazier, of Houston.
Mule Frazier was a widely known sports official for 40 years and was the official starter for the Texas Relays for over 30 years and at the Border Olympics in Laredo which are now called the Mule Frazier Border Olympics. Also, the “Mule Frazier Award” is given each year to a track official who most represents the legacy of Frazier. Earl was elected to the Baylor Hall of Fame in 1963. Mule was also inducted into the Sporting Goods Agents Association Hall of Fame and his company, Frazier Sports, still operates in Waco. A version of this article was published in the Hillsboro Reporter on May 8, 2003.
Clarence Goodnight, 1916-1917
Clarence Goodnight won 5 gold medals in the distance events at the state track meet in 1916-1917 and is the only boy in the history of the state track meet to ever win the 440-yd run, the 880-yd run and the mile run in the same year (1917).
Clarence Leroy Goodnight was born in McDade TX on Nov. 4, 1895, to Jesse and Hattie Goodnight. He and his siblings, Ethel, Ralph F., J. Clifton, and Lesta, grew up in Taylor and Lubbock where he became interested in running. In Lubbock he would stand by the side of the road and, when a car came by, he would race it into town and “some of the oldtimers declare he sometimes won the race.
Clarence became a track star at Lubbock H.S. where he was known as the “West Texas Jackrabbit” or the “Jackrabbit of the Plains.” As a junior in 1916 he won the 880-yd run at 2:05.0 and the mile run at 4:41.2 setting state records in both events. His 880 record stood until 1921 when Comanche’s Jim Reese ran 2:03.6. His mile record stood until 1923. As a senior in 1917 he won three more gold medals with a 1^st place finish in the 440-yd dash at 53.6; a 1^st in the 880-yd run at 2:08.8; and a 1^st in the mile run at 4:49.0. The Wichita Falls newspaper reported that Goodnight “took each of three races with ease, loping away from the field toward the end of each event.” Goodnight almost won the state team championship by himself in 1917 as his 15 points gave Lubbock H.S. second place in the team competition to champion Georgetown with 16 points.
Goodnight joined the US Army after graduation from Lubbock HS in 1917. He trained at Camp Lee VA and served in the Veterinary Corps in France during World War I. After the war the Army wanted Goodnight to remain in France to run in an international sports event the following summer so they sent him to school at Bonn University in the interim. He won a loving cup in an international race and then returned home to Lubbock where he worked for a time on the family farm. He later started a meat-packing business in Lubbock where he remained until retirement. He moved to New Braunfels where he died in Dec. of 1982 at the age of 87.
Clarence Goodnight was survived by his son, Clarence Leroy Goodnight, Jr. & by 5 grandchildren. In 2003 Clarence Goodnight is survived by four grandchildren: Greg Goodnight and Diane Price of Lubbock, Suzzette McAffee of Gainesville TX, and Arthur Lee Daniel of El Paso TX.
Robert Gonzalez, 1964-1967
Robert Gonzalez won state in the 3A mile run in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 breaking the state record each of the last three years. His state mark of 4:07.4 in 1967 (and metric equivalent of 4:05.4) stood for 38 years until 2003 when Klein Oak’s Steve Magness ran a 4:03.3 1600-meters. Gonzalez still holds the 3A/4A record. He later ran at TX A&I where he was All-Lone Star Conference for 4 years and still holds several school records.
As a freshman in 1964 Robert, coached by Richard Lewis, tied teammate Homer Martinez for the 3A mile championship at 4:28.1 and, in April of 1964 at Corpus Christi, set a national freshman record for the mile at 4:24.1. He won the 3A mile as a soph in 1965 at 4:13.4 (with Martinez as runner-up), breaking the (all classes) state record of 4:17.4 by Richard Gallegos of Crystal City in 1962. As a junior in 1965 Robert won the 3A mile in 4:10.4 (again with Martinez as runner-up at 4:11.6), breaking the record he had set the year before and, as a senior in 1967, he broke the state record for the third straight year at 4:07.4 (with splits of 59.0, 63.8, 65.9 & 59.7) breaking his 1966 record and winning by 70 yards. That record stood for 38 years until 2003.

During his 4-year career Gonzalez won 37 of 43 mile races (including 31 in a row) and set 32 meet records. He was also the state cross country champion in 1965, 1966 & 1967 and was named a high school All-American in 1966 & 1967 and was 4th in the mile (4:11.4) at the Golden West Invitational in CA in 1967.

Robert went on to Texas A&I where he was All-Lone Star Conference for 4 years under Coach Ken Kelley and an All-American in 1969. He won the LSC title in the 880 and mile in 1969 and took the 880 title in 1970. During his 4-year career he set conference records in the mile (4:07) and 880-yd dash (1:50.3) and still (in 2004) holds school records in the mile, 880-yd dash, 2-mile relay, sprint-medley relay & distance medley relay. He led A&I to LSC team titles in 1969 & 1970 and was named to the A&I Track Team of the Decade for the 1970's in the 880 and mile. Gonzalez was inducted into the A&I Hall of Fame in 1981 and the Latin-American International Hall of Fame in 1985.
After graduating from TX A&I in 1972 Gonzalez coached football, track and cross-country at Falfurrias for 11 years (1972-83) winning the 4A state title in cross-country in 1980. He has served as Supt. of Schools at Premont (1997-98) and Encino (1998-) and still lives in Falfurrias. Roberto Gonzalez was born in Falfurrias TX on Dec. 29, 1948, to Medoro & Dora Gonzalez. He was one of eleven children (9 boys and 2 girls) and grew up in Falfurrias where the family worked hard in the fields picking cotton and watermelons. Robert and Rosa Diaz Gonzalez have two children, Roberto Javier & Blinda Ann.
Fred Hansen, 1959

Fred Hansen won state in the long jump and pole vault in 1959 and went on to win the NCAA PV championship. In 1964 he broke the world record in the PV three times before winning the gold medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. In 2005 Dr. Fred Hansen was a dentist in Houston.

Hansen won state in 1959 in the 3-A long jump and the PV for Cuero H.S. His 23' 11.7" in the LJ was a state 3-A conference record from 1959-1970 and his 13' 05.5" PV was a state record from 1959-60 and a 3-A state conference record from 1959-62. He was a 4-sport letterman at Cuero H.S. and played in the Texas H.S. Coaches’ all-star football game as a senior in 1959.
Fred attended Rice Institute from 1959-63 and credits his college success to his conditioning program that included working on gym apparatus to strengthen his vaulting muscles and co-ordination. Fred trained hard and was known for walking up and down the gym floor on his hands. As a soph in 1961, he won the SWC LJ (24’ 6.5”), ran on the Rice sprint relay team and was 4^th in the NCAA PV at 15’. As a junior in 1962 he won the SWC LJ (24’ 1.5”) and won the Texas Relays (15’ 6.5”), Kansas Relays, Drake Relays and SWC meet in the PV before finishing in a 4-way tie for first in the NCAA PV at 15’ 3”. He was the U.S. Men’s Outdoor champion in the pole vault in 1962 at 15' 3".
As a senior in 1963 Fred won the PV at the Texas Relays at 16’ 1” and was voted the top performer. However, he suffered a back injury at the SWC meet throwing the javelin (he was 3^rd at over 200’) and failed to defend his PV and LJ titles. He won the Kansas and Drake Relays in the PV and was 4^th in the NCAA meet (15’ 9.7”). Thus he was an All-American in the pole vault in 1961, 1962 & 1963.
Fred received a business degree from Rice in 1963 but continued to compete in the PV after his graduation and was named the most outstanding performer at the national AAU championships in 1964. He broke the PV world record three times in 6 weeks in 1964----on June 5, 1964, at Houston at 17' 1"; on June 13, 1964, at San Diego at 17’ 2”; and on July 25, 1964, at Los Angeles at 17' 4". His WR held until broken by the US’s Bob Seagren in 1966. Hansen won the gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics at 16’ 8.7” in a 10-hour vaulting marathon. That vault was the last of his career as he retired after the Olympics to enroll in dental school.
Fred Morgan Hansen was born on Dec. 29, 1940, in Cuero to Frederick Louis and Ellyce Hansen. He graduated from the Baylor School of Dentistry in 1969 and since then has been a dentist in Houston TX. He also owns and works two ranches near Cuero. Fred has two children, William Schuyler (“Sky”) Hansen of Los Angeles and Katrine (“Katie”) Hansen Heckel of Seattle and one grand child, Valarie Ann Heckel.
Fred was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1967 at the age of 26 and in 1970 was inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame. He was awarded Rice’s Bob Quinn Award in 1963 and is listed on Cuero H.S.’s Internet Site (www.cuerostate.com/highschool) as its most outstanding athlete. He is also a member of the U.S. Track and Field North American Pole Vault Hall of Fame.
Roy Holcomb, 1909
Roy E. Holcomb won 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 1909 state track meet to lead Belton to the state high school track championship. In an era when all high schools in the state (regardless of size) participated in the same class, the Tigers won the 1909 state track championship by scoring 53 points (winning first in 7 of 13 events) to 28 for second place San Antonio, 20 points for third place Austin, and 16 points for fourth place Dallas. The UIL used a “final four” team format in 1909 rather than having competition among all schools. Holcomb scored 25 points (almost as many as the second place team) by himself and broke 4 state records. Using the 2004 point scale for 1^st, 2^nd, etc., Holcomb scored 64 points at the 1909 state meetCstill a record in 2004. Yet this remarkable athletic performance by Holcomb and the team was forgotten by Belton by the 1950's as the school declared that the 1958 Tiger basketball team had won the first state championship in school history.
Senior Roy Holcomb, 19, won first place in four events: the 100-yard dash at 10.8; the 220-yard dash at 23.4; the 440-yard dash at 56.4; and the 12-pound hammer throw at 111'. He was second in the 50-yard dash and ran on Belton’s second place 880-yard relay team; and was third in the 12-pound shotput and in the 120-yard low hurdles for a total of 25 points. He broke state records in four events (the 100-yard and 220-yard dashes, hammer throw and the 880-relay) and the Belton team “broke eight of thirteen State high school records” in the state high school track meet on Fri-Sat. and in the Monday duel meet with the Academy champion, Allen Academy (which Belton lost 58-55). Holcomb’s 25 points converted to today’s point scale “translates” to 64 pointsCstill a record for most points at the state meet 96 years later though the record must include an * by his total since the 64 points was achieved against only three teams in a final-four team format (used by UIL for one year only) rather than against athletes from all schools in the state.
Roy Holcomb’s athletic talent was not limited to track and field as the 1909 high school yearbook indicated that he also lettered in football, baseball and basketball. Holcomb was a catcher and outstanding hitter on the 1909 baseball team and a “speedy halfback” on the 1908 Tiger football team who was described as “easily the star high school football player of Central Texas” (the team played only 3 games).
Roy Holcomb lettered in track, football, and baseball at the University of Texas from 1909-1912. The 1912 Cactus reported that Holcomb (as a junior) won third place in the 220-yd dash, second in the 440-yd dash, and ran on the winning mile relay team (3:26.4) at the “Intercollegiate Meet” against A&M, Baylor, Southwestern, Daniel Baker, and Austin College. He also led the sophomores to the championship of the UT “Class Track Meet” in 1911 by winning the 100-yd dash (10.3), the 220-yd dash (22.4), and the 440-yd dash (54.4) and won the 100-yd dash and 220-yd dash as a freshman at the same meet in 1910. Also, he had the fourth highest batting average (.250) on the1911 UT baseball team which was 14-12-1.
Roy dropped out of UT after his junior year and joined the U.S. Army serving two years during World War I. He then taught school at “a little red schoolhouse” in Bell County for a short time before moving to San Antonio to coach at the Peacock Academy. He later worked for the Pacific Railroad in Bay City and managed car dealerships in San Benito and Brownsville before moving to Austin where he was a real estate broker until his retirement. Roy Holcomb died in 1969 at the age of 80 and is buried at Austin Memorial Park. In 2004 he was survived by his two daughters, Elizabeth Eberhard, 82, and Patsy Ann Acevedo, 71, of Austin; three grandchildren, Elizabeth Ann Acevedo of Austin, Susan Marie Savely of AK, and Jorge Michael Acevedo of Clovis CA; and three great grandchildren.
Roy E. Holcomb was born on Oct. 15, 1889, in Belton to John A. and Emma Holcomb. He was the oldest of four children (Roy, Ernest, Eunice and J.C.) and grew up in Midway between Belton & Temple. His mother and father both died in Bell County by 1941, the four children moved away, and Belton forgot Roy Holcomb. However by 2001 the new Tiger Wall of Honor included a plaque describing the heroic feats of Roy Holcomb.

Darrow Hooper, 1948-1949
Darrow Hooper won the shot put and discus at the state track meets in 1948 & 1949 breaking the state and national record in the shot put and the state record in the discus. While competing for Texas A&M he won the NCAA shotput title in 1951 and won a silver medal in the shot put at the 1952 Olympics.
Hooper won a Ft Worth city junior high title in the shot-put at the age of 14. The 6'3, 210 lb Hooper was a 3-sport star at Ft Worth Northside in football, basketball and track as he was the leading scorer in the city as a QB as a senior and was the city’s top scorer in basketball in 1948-49. As a junior in 1948, Darrow won the City Conference shot put at the State Track Meet at 59' 10.2" breaking the state and national records and also won the discus at 153' 1.5". As a senior in 1949 Hooper won state both the shot put (at 57' 03") and the discus (at 170' 10.5"--breaking a state record) and tied for 2^nd in the high jump. His state shotput record held from 1948-1960 when it was broken by Belton’s Richard Inman at 62' 08". His state discus record held from 1949-1958 when it was broken by Austin McCallum’s Jimmy Brown. His 176' 07.7" discus mark as a senior at the Ft Worth City Track Meet broke a national record. His national H.S. shot put record held from 1948-1952. Hooper also won the shot put at the H.S. Texas Relays in 1948 and 1949 (59' 05.5").
Hooper competed for Texas A&M from 1950-53 and won the NCAA shot put title as a soph in 1951 at 53' 11". He was 2^nd in the shot at the 1952 & 1953 NCAA meets and was 5^th in the discus at the 1951 & 1953 NCAA meets. He was an All-American in the shot put in 1951-53. He won the SWC shot put titles in 1951 (54' 7.5"Ba SWC record), 1952 (53' 7") and 1953 (55' 5"Ba SWC record) and the SWC discus titles in 1951 (162' 8"), 1952 (154' 4") and 1953 (154' 4") and set a SWC discus record in 1952 at 170'. He was also a 3-time winner of both the shot put and discus at the Texas Relays in 1951 (53' 1" & 148' 9"), 1952 (54' 7" & 157' 8") and 1953 (56' 2" & 158' 4") where he was named the Most Outstanding Performer in 1951. He won both the shot and discus at the Kansas Relays in 1951-53, the Drake Relays in 1951 & 1953 and the Border Olympics. He also played football at Texas A&M in 1950-52 playing QB and end and serving as the teams’s place kicker. His 31-yd FG in beat Texas 22-21 in 1952
In the summer after his junior year at A&M, Darrow Hooper won a silver medal in the shot put at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki with a throw of 57' 0 & 3/8" missing the gold medal by only 3/4 of an inch as Parry O’Brien of the U.S. won at 57' 1 & 3/8". He beat O’Brien at the Olympic Trials at 57' 1 & 3/8 (the exact distance later by O’Brien to win the gold medal) and was ranked 3^rd in the world in the shot put in 1952 and 1953. He won the U.S. Men’s Outdoor shot put in 1951 at 53' 11". Hooper was drafted by the NFL’s NY Giants but chose not to play. Darrow Hooper is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the Texas A&M Sports Hall of Fame and the Drake Relays Hall of Fame.
Clarence Darrow Hooper was born on Jan. 30, 1932, in Ft. Worth to Wallace and Mabel Merrett Hooper. He and his older brother, Wallace, grew up in Ft. Worth where Darrow graduated from Northside H.S. in 1949. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1954 with a degree in civil engineering and was the owner of two engineering firms in Dallas before his retirement in 1999. He served as a member of the Dallas School Board in 1991-92. In 2004 Darrow lived in Dallas TX with his wife, Mary Jean. He has three sons, Darrow, David & Jim.