Education
Growing up on a little farm outside of Oklahoma City, Reddell attended Classen High School (now Classen School of Advanced Studies).
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Career
He is among the winningest coaches in Texas high school football history. In 1996, he was inducted to the Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District Hall of Fame. His athletic abilities earned Reddell a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma.
At 6 ft 1 in (185 m) and 175 pounds (79 kg), Reddell played end under head coach Bud Wilkinson from 1950-1952.
Also playing baseball for the Sooners, Reddell was a catcher on the 1951 national championship team Soon after graduation, Reddell found his first head coaching position at DeKalb High School in Northeast Texas.
He left in 1954 to return to his alma mater at Classen, an Oklahoma City suburb, in 1954. The school had offered him a $6,500 annual salary — almost $3,000 more than he had made at Classen.
After 11 seasons at Palo Duro, Reddell moved on to coach at Arlington High School where he amassed a 48–14–2 record in six seasons.
In 1972, he then became head coach at Midland High School, where he faced powerhouses like Odessa Permian, San Angelo and Midland Lee, yet was able to compile a 25-11-4 record and leaving as the second-highest winning percentage in the history of the MHS program in 1975. In 1976, Reddell became head coach at Trinity High School in Euless, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. He guided the Trojans to their first playoff victory in 1979, and in 1982 faced Hurst Bell in front of a Texas high school attendance record of 27,661 for district playoff game.
Reddell retired in 1992 with a record of 116–53–4 at Euless Trinity.
He died in 2002 of congestive heart failure.
