History of Arkansas Razorbacks

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By the time I came to the University in 1921, Bezdek had departed and G. W. McLaren was coach. Razorbacks had become firmly established as the team's name. I knew nothing about University sports at the time, but had played a high school football game against an excellent team from Fort Smith in the fall of 1920, my high school McAlester was fortunate to win 19-0. The Fort Smith captain was Herman Boozman, who later (1926) was captain of the Arkansas Razorbacks and noted as one of the greatest Razorback players of all time.

At this time, Lock Morton, Elza Renfro, myself, and my sister Marguerite were the only students of Indian extraction at the University. We were from the Choctaw nation. Later Claude Coon and my youngest sister, Lucille, entered the University. Lock lettered on the 1923 team, and so did Elza.

I played freshman football that first fall, but was entirely out of my class insofar as future varsity play was concerned. So, I concentrated on baseball and lettered two years in that sport. This was during the era when such Arkansawyers as Sid Benton (St. Louis Cardinals), Roy Wood (Cleveland Indians), Leland Robertson, Jim Warram, and Jack East, were known in baseball.

While in high school in Oklahoma, I had illustrated our yearbook with my own style of cartoons and thought I was pretty good. During my first week at the University, I made some snide remarks about the quality of the drawings I had seen of the Razorback hog. Some upperclassmen