Education
Hall"s career prep rushing record of 11,232 yards (1950: 569 yd. 1951: 3,160 yd; 1952: 3,458 yd. 1953: 4,045 yd) stood until November 16, 2012, while his 32.9 points per game (1953/12) remains a national record.
His record of 38 one hundred-yard games was tied by Steve Worster in 1966, but was not broken until the mid-1980s by Emmitt Smith, which was recently broken by Rushel Shell of Hopewell High School in Pennsylvania.
Hall also finished his career with 14,558 yards of total offense (11,232 rushing/3,326 passing), a record that would last until being broken by Nitro (West Virginia) High School"s future Major League Baseball player J. R. House in 1998.
At Sugar Land, Hall played in the single-wing formation at quarterback, standing 6 ft 1 in (185 m) and weighing in at 190 lb (86 kg). According to the National High School Sports Record Book, Hall still holds multiple single-season records, including average points per game (329), touchdowns per game (48) and rushing yards per game (3371).
In a contest against Houston Lutheran High School in 1953, Hall averaged 47.3 yards on 11 carries for 520 yards (the state record for nearly 25 years, currently 4th), returned a punt 82 yards, a kickoff run of 64 yards and snatched a 21 yard interception for a combined 687 total yards.
Hall was recruited by several schools, and chose to attend Texas Agricultural and Mechanical under college coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
He quit before his college"s team went to the Junction, Texas, training camp and got married.