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Clyde “Slim” Park, ‘29
Lettered six times for McMurry in football and five times in basketball and baseball after entering the McMurry Academy as a high school junior. A native of Knox City, Park was a two-time all-Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association defensive end and was a team captain of the 1927 TIAA championship team. He never missed a game of football in all six seasons, but broke his leg in the final game of his senior year and was not able to play his final year of basketball. In 1927, he played in an all-star game in Fort Worth pitting the TIAA stars against the stars of the Southwest Conference.
Park coached 41 years at Eastland, McCamey, Fort Stockton and El Paso as well as ran an automobile agency for 11 years in Fort Stockton. He is now semi-retired and working in real estate in El Paso. He and his wife Mary have one daughter and two grandchildren.
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