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...Doak Walker has had more to do with making the Lions the team they are than anyone else...
...Bobby was only six years old when his father died and he was sent to Fort Worth to live with an aunt and uncle. By the time he was ready for junior high, his adopted parents moved to Dallas, where he teamed up with a boy named Doak Walker on the football field of Highland Park High School...
Bobby began his career as a guard, but before long he was calling signals from the tailback slot in Highland Park's single wing. Day after day, when the rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship...
...Bobby was a football player at heart. As a freshman he was still playing tailback in Coach Dana X. Bible's conservative single wing. He was just getting the hang of college football when the draft started to worry him. He and Doak joined the merchant marine, but the war was over before they ever got to sea. Bobby went back to Austin while Doak went to S.M.U. On the first Saturday after they got back, they were opponents on the football field. Walker ran 50 yds. for one touchdown; Layne pitched passes for two. (Final score: Texas...
...wife around behind the car, have her bend over and serve as a center while he practiced the way he thought a T-quarterback would play. Those service-station attendants probably thought he was crazy." Bobby and Texas lost only one game that year-to S.M.U. and Doak Walker...