Career
He was a graduate of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University where he was a three-sport star, lettering three years each in baseball, basketball and football. He played end for Dana X. Bible"s Texas Agricultural and Mechanical football teams from 1925 to 1927 and was All-Southwest Conference and mentioned as All-American. He played minor league baseball with Shreveport, Louisiana of the Class A Texas League after college.
Sikes was an assistant coach for ends at the University of Georgia in Wally Butts first year as head football coach in 1939 until leaving for Kansas after the 1947 season, interrupted by service in World World War World War II He coached the Kansas Jayhawks from 1948 to 1953, compiling a 35–25 record.
He succeeded George Sauer who left Kansas for United States Naval Academy. From 1954 to 1963, he coached at East Texas State University, amassing a 63–34–4 record.
He was a proponent of the T formation.
