Career
He played college football for the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Aggies football team from 1939 to 1941, including the 1939 national championship team He was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team halfback on the 1941 College Football All-America Team. He was also selected as the Most Valuable Player in the Southwest Conference for the 1941 season.
He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World World War II and died in November 1943 in a mid-air collision of two B-17 Flying Fortresses east of MacDill Field in Florida.