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I can recall two more stories that I thought might interest you and your former classmates.
The first story is about the very first football team. All games were played away from home. To start the first season the UIL allows for two football scrimmages. We had a very inexperienced team because we were not allowed to use any player who had played on a varsity team before.
Coach Mickler and Coach Swindler both were from San Antonio.
They scheduled a scrimmage with a team from Charlotte which was a small school South of San Antonio.
We had only the large bus with the flat front end. Coach Swindler suggested we take a short cut using the back roads to avoid traffic, etc.
We traveled fine until we had to cross a river. The bridge was very old and made of iron and wood. It also had a maximum load limit. We checked the bus weight and saw we could get over it - if the bus was empty. So we got out and carried the equipment over the bridge.
We got there okay anyway.
The coaches got off the bus first. When the team left the bus they were so disorganized that Coach called them "storm driven cattle."
The second story was on the football practice field. At the time RAFB was training Vietnamese pilots. The West runway was only a few hundred yards from the practice field. The green pilots would usually bounce when they practiced landing. Sometimes they bounced so badly they would land in the grassy area between the football field and runway. So the players would stop practicing and have a long laugh. It happened frequently.
