Dave embodied the perfect student/athelete. He was my friend and team-mate.
As Co-Captain of the Panther Football team he showed leadership and prowess on the field. After graduation he received a scholarship to Ga Tech and then he played pro-ball for St Louis, New Orleans and Dallas. I was informed he went into Christian ministry and traveled in that capacity. I was also informed that Dave was killed in an auto accident.
If someone knows more about Dave's life, I would hope that they would post it. Not having Dave at this reunion is a loss and I am saddened that he is gone.
FROM MY PROFILE...I REMEMBER DAVID RUNNING OVER THE ephs LINE FOR A TOUCHDOWN, REF'S CALLED IT BACK 2 TIMES. IT WAS HOMECOMMING AT RE MCKEE , the tigers KNEW HE WAS GOING TO COME RIGHT AT THEM AGAIN BUT COULD NOT STOP HIM AND HE SCORRED EVERYTIME..LAST I HEARD ABOUT HIM HE HAD LEFT THE DALLAS COWBOYS AND HAD GONE TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY SERVICE?
I know David was involved in Campus Crusade in Arrowhead, Ca. which is only one mile from where Bob and I live. Wish we had known he was so close to our home before his passing. As a new student to Austin David was always friendly and kind to me, he was a great football player.
I was living in Manhattan Beach, Ca in 1966 when Daves' team, the St Louis Cardinals came to the Los Angeles Coliseum to play the LA Rams in a preseason opener. I called Dave at the hotel where the Cards were staying and arranged to meet him following the game. Dave was on the kickoff team, took a heavy hit and had to be carried off the field. We met after the game but Dave opted out of our planned rendevous and instead, spirited his new wife into his hotel room, which was clearly against Cardinal team policy.
A teammate of Dave's later wrote a tell-all book detailing the oppressive conditions off-the-field wherein players' personal lives were tightly controlled by the NFL owners and cited this incident as an example of the extent of those intrusive controls. The revelations in the book eventually led to the creation of the NFL Players Union.
All of us who played football in 1960 and '61 at at Austin remember the "Delgado Special", a form of torture, really, that consisted of one player standing face-to-face with his opponent, who was five yards away and whose sole purpose was to run as fast as possible to "hit" and "chest tackle" the player who stood "frozen", with the football held over his head.
This perverse drill was named after Eddie Delgado who always, just before Lawrence Cano began his run at him, would wobble his knees in a faux, pre-hit expression of fear. This always elicited a huge laugh from the rest of us and so the "Delgado Special" was born.
I had broken my shoulder early in my junior year but was pronounced "cured" soon after my cast was removed. A week later I found myself standing with the ball held over my head facing an onrushing Big Dave Simmons.
I had decided beforehand (with logic that was suspect), that since a drunk person in car wreck was seldom injured or killed because they supposedly were relaxed just before impact, that I would follow suit and just relax.
"Car wreck" was one way to describe the sensation of being launched into the air and descending backwards with "Big Dave" on top of me, driving me several inches into the turf. As I hobbled away I heard a derisive "welcome back, Cobb" roll off of coach Pug Gabriels' tongue. . . I still hear it.
As for relaxing while holding the ball over your head while someone is bearing down on you with every intention of (how do u spell anialate?) - crushing you. . . not a good idea, in that situation or in life.
I gave Big Dave an advantage that he didn't need or ask for and paid the price for a "good in theory - bad in execution", bit of illogic.
Had I known at the time that Big Dave would become a Christian minister and founder of a Father & Son Christian Family outreach program, I would have probably appealed to his gentler side, but hindsite. . .
I suspect that he believed in the old biblical adage of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", and one thing that I know that Dave knew for certain, was that with the "Delgado Special", you always got your chance to get an "eye-for-an-eye".
In 1996, Dave was killed in a car crash. It seems that in the end, there was something that hit harder than he did.
Robert Short
Dave embodied the perfect student/athelete. He was my friend and team-mate.
As Co-Captain of the Panther Football team he showed leadership and prowess on the field. After graduation he received a scholarship to Ga Tech and then he played pro-ball for St Louis, New Orleans and Dallas. I was informed he went into Christian ministry and traveled in that capacity. I was also informed that Dave was killed in an auto accident.
If someone knows more about Dave's life, I would hope that they would post it. Not having Dave at this reunion is a loss and I am saddened that he is gone.
Frank Jr. Jurado
FROM MY PROFILE...I REMEMBER DAVID RUNNING OVER THE ephs LINE FOR A TOUCHDOWN, REF'S CALLED IT BACK 2 TIMES. IT WAS HOMECOMMING AT RE MCKEE , the tigers KNEW HE WAS GOING TO COME RIGHT AT THEM AGAIN BUT COULD NOT STOP HIM AND HE SCORRED EVERYTIME..LAST I HEARD ABOUT HIM HE HAD LEFT THE DALLAS COWBOYS AND HAD GONE TO THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY SERVICE?
Josie Corona (Short)
I know David was involved in Campus Crusade in Arrowhead, Ca. which is only one mile from where Bob and I live. Wish we had known he was so close to our home before his passing. As a new student to Austin David was always friendly and kind to me, he was a great football player.
Robert Cobb
I was living in Manhattan Beach, Ca in 1966 when Daves' team, the St Louis Cardinals came to the Los Angeles Coliseum to play the LA Rams in a preseason opener. I called Dave at the hotel where the Cards were staying and arranged to meet him following the game. Dave was on the kickoff team, took a heavy hit and had to be carried off the field. We met after the game but Dave opted out of our planned rendevous and instead, spirited his new wife into his hotel room, which was clearly against Cardinal team policy.
A teammate of Dave's later wrote a tell-all book detailing the oppressive conditions off-the-field wherein players' personal lives were tightly controlled by the NFL owners and cited this incident as an example of the extent of those intrusive controls. The revelations in the book eventually led to the creation of the NFL Players Union.
All of us who played football in 1960 and '61 at at Austin remember the "Delgado Special", a form of torture, really, that consisted of one player standing face-to-face with his opponent, who was five yards away and whose sole purpose was to run as fast as possible to "hit" and "chest tackle" the player who stood "frozen", with the football held over his head.
This perverse drill was named after Eddie Delgado who always, just before Lawrence Cano began his run at him, would wobble his knees in a faux, pre-hit expression of fear. This always elicited a huge laugh from the rest of us and so the "Delgado Special" was born.
I had broken my shoulder early in my junior year but was pronounced "cured" soon after my cast was removed. A week later I found myself standing with the ball held over my head facing an onrushing Big Dave Simmons.
I had decided beforehand (with logic that was suspect), that since a drunk person in car wreck was seldom injured or killed because they supposedly were relaxed just before impact, that I would follow suit and just relax.
"Car wreck" was one way to describe the sensation of being launched into the air and descending backwards with "Big Dave" on top of me, driving me several inches into the turf. As I hobbled away I heard a derisive "welcome back, Cobb" roll off of coach Pug Gabriels' tongue. . . I still hear it.
As for relaxing while holding the ball over your head while someone is bearing down on you with every intention of (how do u spell anialate?) - crushing you. . . not a good idea, in that situation or in life.
I gave Big Dave an advantage that he didn't need or ask for and paid the price for a "good in theory - bad in execution", bit of illogic.
Had I known at the time that Big Dave would become a Christian minister and founder of a Father & Son Christian Family outreach program, I would have probably appealed to his gentler side, but hindsite. . .
I suspect that he believed in the old biblical adage of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", and one thing that I know that Dave knew for certain, was that with the "Delgado Special", you always got your chance to get an "eye-for-an-eye".
In 1996, Dave was killed in a car crash. It seems that in the end, there was something that hit harder than he did.