Key Wolf is the team's namesake

taken from the Davis News, 2011

Not every Davis Wolf knows that the team was named for a man and not a wild animal. The first entry for the team named the "Wolves" that could be found in old issues of The Davis News was Sept. 17, 1925, when Fay Crossett, editor, referred to "Mr. Wolf's Wolves." The team was readying to play its first opponent, Roff, at Pierce park. Mr. Pierce let Davis use his field for games. (He could have been George Pierce, who lived north of Davis. He was the son-in-law of Nelson Chigley, a friend of Wolf's family.)

Wolf was hired in April 1925 as high school principal. In the Sept. 10, 1925, issue of The News, Wolf, who was also the athletic director, had called a meeting of the high school athletic association. The 1929-30 team, coached by Wolf, was the first undefeated team Davis had ever had. Crossett, wrote in December 1929, "Five years ago, Mr. Wolf began the process of lifting Davis athletes from their lowly position to their present place among the best." They were Red River Valley and Arbuckle Mountain champions.

In 11 victories (although one was a tie), the team scored a total of 242 points while holding its opponents to 25. (The Wolves beat Sulphur 20-0.) Seven Wolves scored in the double digits during the season, with Paul Johnson recording an impressive 86 points. The junior class will bring one of the deepest and most talented classes of any in recent memory. They will dominate the line on both sides of the ball and have a whole stable of skilled players. With last year's five playoff games under their belts, they will have as much experience as most seniors.

Gage Moore had 43; G.B. Wheeler and Harry Gardner Crossett, 24 each; Marcelous Peterman, 18; Frank Ramsey, 15, and Jack Revels and Percy Tom Francis, 13 each. Finishing out the scoring were Jake Barron and Paris Price, 6 each. Other teammates were: J.W. "Dub" Wheeler, who went on to be an All-American, Willie Warren, Edgar Garnett, Harold Russell, Delbert Land and Jack Rowe. Substitutes were: Joe Russell, Robert Lebo, Winfrey Tucker, Arleigh Wallis, Bob Peterman and W.T. Kelly.

It was unquestioned that the football team was named in Wolf's honor, although no one knows if Wolf chose the name himself or editor Crossett dubbed the nickname in that September 1925 article. By Dec. 17, 1925, however, the nickname had caught on and the basketball team was also called the "Davis Wolves."

Grover Cleveland "Key" Wolf was born south of Davis on March 8, 1886. He was orphaned by the time he was 5 and went to live with his father's cousin, Nelson Chigley in Davis. (Wolf was one-half Chickasaw.) He attended the neighborhood Indian school operated by Chigley then Davis Public Schools and graduated from high school at Harley Institute in Tishomingo.

At the University of Oklahoma, he was the captain of the football team 45 games in which he (which was called the played." "Boomers"). According to Wolf's obituary, he weighed 200 pounds and wore a bright pair of Crimson socks and played with such ferocity that Rev A. Grant Evans, then president of the university, wrote a poem about him. “When Key Wolf Gets the Ball” was reprinted in the 1909 “Sooner” annual.

According to Wolf's obituary, Evans read the poem to the student body amid cheers in the OU Chapel before the Sooners left on the Santa Fe to play Kansas. Wolf reported to the Sooner Squad in 1905 green in experience. The Obituary in the News states. “But he caught on fast that he became a starter, starting in all forty-five games in which he played.

He returned to OU and earned a Master's degree in Education in 1931. He spent the remainder of his career teaching Indian children. Wolf retired in 1952 to his allotment south of Davis. He died at the age of 74 in his sleep on October 12 1960, at his farm near Davis. Pallbearers who had played on Wolf's football teams were Bobby Riddle, Morris E Morton, J.W. Wheeler, Paul Johnson, Willie Warren and Frank Ramsey.

Note: J.W. "Dub" Wheeler would later become a two time All American at the University of Oklahoma as a Sooner.

1960s'

1960s This is the one of the best presentations of the sixties that I have ever seen online. It is very well done. Just click on the link and sit back and enjoy the memories. Great photos and facts. If you're not quite old enough to have been there, feel free to pass it on to someone who is.

the sixties

Jitter Buggin' at the Tavern

GERIATRIC DIRTY DANCING

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eSKCi9ml4ME

This sorta reminds me of the Friday Nights, Saturday Nights, and Sunday afternoons at the Tavern (Turner Falls High School) during my tenure of growing up in the '50s & '60s.....whatta ya think? Anybody you know.............?????

Class of 1961 50th Reunion

eScottBumgarner 2011 Writer, Blogger, Poet, Photographer, Proofreader.


In the afternoon of May 7th, 2011, the Class of 1961 met at Randy and Billee Moore's home for this reunion. There was about thirteen or fourteen members who attended this event.

The members of the Class of '61 that attended were: Ken Gondles of Tulsa Oklahoma, Bill Smith of Howe Texas, Jim Lassiter of Howe Texas, and Randy Moore of Davis Oklahoma. Tom Berninger, I believe from Duncan Oklahoma, was also in attendance. Also, Gloria Webber of Davis Oklahoma, and Carolyn Hunt of Dougherty Oklahoma were in attendance, as well as Barbara Chadwick and Mary Lee Fullerton of Davis Oklahoma, and Cherry Noland of Deer Creek Oklahoma. Carolyn Duncan of Allen Texas was in attendance, as well as Doris Low and Ozie Atchley.

There were other graduates of DHS who attended and some of them were Bob and Kay Drake, Don and Ted Carter, Edd McNeil and Scott Bumgarner, Jack and Phil Beller, Merlene Oakley, Jeral Walker, Sue Roberts, Tina Baugh, Billee Moore, Bonnie Smith, Jerry Birch, Joe Ben Pirkle, Sean McNeil and Friend of California, Betty Kennedy, and Taylor and Mandy Moore, and Paul Ealey, and others that I don't recall. There were a lot of this Class that didn't make it.

Randy and Billee have graciously held the 45th and 50th Class reunions. Thank you.

If you have remarks or comments, please refer them to: sooner1944@verizon.net
scott bumgarner

Davis High Band....1952 & 1970

       

Davis Band Photos 1952 and 1970

Apr 4, 2011
by George Peveto

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Boogie Woogie

 

,,,,,,,,the good old days!!

If you can take your eyes off her, the male dancer is super . . . never moves his shoulders compared to what his feet and knees are doing. And the top of his head stays at the same height no matter what.  This is a pianist from Switzerland who plays some of the best Boogie WOOGIE anywhere. He is so BIG over there, they hold a week-long Boogie WOOGIE contest every year and all the best players in the world are invited. In this video he is joined by 2 amazing dancers... The male dancer even has a haircut from the forties. Turn up the volume, watch and give it a listen! If you experience any trouble tapping your foot to the beat, you had better hurry and schedule an appointment with your physician. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T REMEMBER, THIS IS HOW THE BOOGIE WOOGIE WAS DONE!

  
 
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Good Ole Days.....................the 50s'

I have no idea who put this together, But it's wonderful!! Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan , or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,

For Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born,
Where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.

We learned to gut a muffler, we washed our hair at dawn,
We spread our crinolines to dry in circles on the lawn..

We longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz , and no one's seen him since.

We danced to 'Little Darlin,' and sang to 'Stagger Lee '
And cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me, Me.
Only girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many,
And only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney ..

And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see
A boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We fell for Frankie Avalon , Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie, they never made it twice..

We didn't have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me, Me.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.

We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T,
And Oprah couldn't talk yet, in the Land That Made Me, Me.
We had our share of heroes, we never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe.

For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be,
And Elvis was forever in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson , And Zeppelins were not Led.

And Beatles lived in gardens then, And Monkees lived in trees,
Madonna was Mary in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars,
And babies might be bottle-fed, But they were not grown in jars.

And pumping iron got wrinkles out, and 'gay' Meant fancy-free,
And dorms were never co-Ed in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We hadn't seen enough of jets to talk about the lag,
And microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag.

And hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea,
And rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me, Me.

Buicks came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks,
And bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks.

And Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee,
And Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me, Me.

We had no Crest with Fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues,
We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea Or prime-time ads for those dysfunctions in the Land That Made Me, Me.here were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill, And fish were not called Wanda , and cats were not called Bill.

And middle-aged was 35 and old was forty-three,
And ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me, Me.

But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say,
And now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A.
They send us invitations to join AARP,
We've come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me, Me.

So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans,
And wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines.
And we tell our children's children of the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away in the Land That Made Me, Me.

If you didn't grow up in the fifty's,


You missed the greatest time in history.

AND NOW........For those of you too young to Remember Ask your older brothers or sister or grandparents!!!
Thanks for the memories.............

Davis High Class of 1960

Edward S Bumgarner ©2010

The Davis High, Class of 1960 met on May 9th, 2010 at Jerry Birch's home east of Davis for the celebration of their Fifty Year Class Reunion.

Jerry served up sliced beef brisket bbq to thirteen members of this class. There were a few who didn't come, and there are eight deceased members. There were originally thirty-one members in this class.

Those in attendance included: Jerry Birch, Sue Roberts, Jack Beller, Leon "Possum" Ford, Mary Ella Tipton, Ted Carter, Kenneth Blevins, Carol Crumb, Charles Gillispie, Paul Summers, Gary Hefley, Barbara Gordon, and Portia Stone.

Other classes were represented at this reunion.

Paul and Paula.....Hey, Hey Paula

story borrowed from Answers.com


1963 was the year, we graduated from Davis High and this record was a biggie that year. Here is the true story of this song and the ones who recorded it.

Getting a number-one pop hit was easy for West Texans Ray Hildebrand (Joshua, TX) and Jill Jackson (Camry, TX). Mission accomplished with their first single. But the old saying, "you don't appreciate what you don't work hard for," applies here.

"Hey Paula" aced Billboard's pop survey and made the Top Ten on most R&B charts, prompting Motown Records to team Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells to cash in on the fad. After pairing Gaye with Kim Weston, Motown processed the Paul & Paula paradigm successfully by pairing Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

Hildebrand and Jackson were students at Howard Payne College when a Brownwood, TX, DJ called for entertainers to volunteer to benefit the American Cancer Society. They volunteered and sang "Hey Paula," a song Hildebrand wrote. It went over so well that everybody encouraged them to make a record.

Major Bill Smith's LeCam label in Fort Worth, TX, had just scored a major hit with Bruce Channel, so they drove there late in 1962 hoping for an unscheduled audition. Wrong day. Smith was busy recording that Saturday, but they hung around anyway. Opportunity knocked when Amos Milburn Jr. didn't show and Smith had five musicians sitting around exchanging snaps at five dollars each. Not wanting to blow the money, he asked Hildebrand and Jackson to sing their song. After a brief audition, Smith took them in the studio. The rest is history.

Smith offered "Hey Paula" to Vee Jay Records but Ewart Abner turned it down. So he released it on LeCam, as by Jill & Ray. (Abner realized his error and paired Jerry Butler and Betty Everett after "Hey Paula" exploded.) The hot seller caught the attention of Mercury Records' Shelby Singleton. Mercury reissued it on its Phillips subsidiary. But not before Singleton renamed them Paul & Paula, pointing out that two people name Jill & Ray singing the lyrics "Hey, hey Paula" and "Hey, hey Paul" didn't make sense. They resented -- everybody in West Texas knew them as Jill & Ray -- but later acquiesced.

"Hey Paula" sold nearly two-million copies early in 1963. They followed with "Young Lovers" and "First Quarrel." A couple of albums, including one of Christmas songs, followed. "Hey Paula" originally ran more than six minutes. But Smith said it was too long, and Hildebrand used the cut parts to create "Young Lovers."

Everything seemed like a fantastic dream, but by 1965 Hildebrand had second thoughts. He didn't like the traveling. Plus, he wanted to complete his college education. (His parents were schoolteachers.) The final straw came when he left Jackson in a lurch on a Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour and Clark had to fill in.

Jill Jackson married their manager and continued as a solo artist. They later divorced and she married an attorney. She resides in San Fernando Valley, CA. She wanted the duo to continue and often asked Hildebrand to reconsider, to no avail. They reunited for a party in Brownwood in the '80s, but that's as far as it went. Hildebrand worked behind the scenes as a songwriter/producer, then left the business for a while.

He returned to music in 1983 as one half of the Christian music male duo, Land & Hildebrand, who remained together into the new millennium. Hildebrand has also worked on the national staff of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He lives in Overland, KS. Hildebrand and Jackson, as Paul & Paula, are members of the West Texas Music Hall of Fame. ~ Andrew Hamilton, All Music Guide

Juke Box Full of Songs

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Davis High Class of '51 Football Team Shares Memories

Written by Bruce Hottel and reprinted from The Davis News May, 2009

Coaches, players, family members and friends met May 2 and relived a 58-year-old memory. They shared reminisces about school days and football games, as the years fell away. A message from Coach Jody Weber was left on a marker board, since Weber was at the state track meet. He wrote: “On behalf of our players and staff, I would like to thank you all for the contributions that the ’51 team made to the Davis tradition. We owe you men for planting the seeds of excellence that our squads can hopefully uphold. Thank you all.”

James Bruce Hottel, the quarterback of the 1951 state runner-up football team, wrote the following about the Dec. 14, 1951, Class C state championship game. It was a cold, blustery, 35 mph wind gust, and a 27 degree temp, Dec. 14, 1951. The location was Owen Field, OU Campus in Norman.

The powerful Thomas Terriers football team was playing the mighty Davis Wolves. This was the first time in history to be at this playoff level for the Wolves. We were excited. It seemed that the entire town of Davis was there; even my dad came for the first time to see a game. 


Coach Lester “Bear” Jensen and Assistant Coach Wayne Mayfield had told us during our warm ups, “These unshaven western prairie guys were good and not to be surprised if we were behind 20 points at the half.” We knew they were good, but after we had knocked off 10 teams to reach this plateau, we knew it was “not over until it was over.”

Sure enough, at half time, they had us down 0-19. However, we were just getting “warmed up” at this point. During the second half, we unleashed a barrage of offense and defense on the “shell-shocked” Terriers. By the time the final quarter was almost over, we had Thomas “backed up to the wall,” and we were ahead 25-19.

You would have thought, without momentum in “fast forward,” the “down and out” Terriers would have given up. But no such luck. Like a prairie fire that wouldn’t go out, they made a “last ditch effort” and tied the score at 25-25 with seven minutes remaining. Those last few minutes were filled with “knock downs” and “drag outs.”

The game ended with that score. Since the procedure in 1951 did not allow a tiebreaking extended play, the officials went to the rule book to determine a winner. The first determination was the “number of penetrations past the 20-yard line.” Those numbers were tied (5-5). The next was the “number of first downs.” The Terriers had 14 and the Wolves had 10, thus the Terriers were declared the winner. Had they gone to a third determination, “number of yardage gain,” the numbers were 289 to 229, in favor of the Wolves.

The truth, about this game, is that we both won. What happened that day on the football field is not about the final score or the technique of deciding who would claim the prize but about the journey of courage and determination displayed by all of the players and coaches of both teams. A salute is due the Davis Wolves, their families, coaches and teachers, and their entire community, as they just keep on producing good kids and football teams. This is also true of the Thomas Terriers.

After being on the earth 75 years, three daughters, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren later, I think I have learned that when a person gives it their best, in any endeavor of life that is a “victory in itself.”

My grade and high school days’ association with family, classmates, teachers and coaches was a great foundation for a happy and satisfying life. So, if we do the best we can, give the glory to others and leave the rest to God, that will be our legacy to our family and friends.

Another Friend From Grade School

Through a mutual ole high school friend who graduated at the rival school in Murray County of Southern Oklahoma....Sulphur....to be exact, I have found a former 5th grade classmate. We were classmates at Davis, Oklahoma for most of our fifth grade year back in the middle 1950s.

George Peveto graduated from Sulphur High just as I graduated from Davis High in 1963. He and I are old friends even though we haven't laid eyes on one another in probably forty years or more. He and I have been emailing for a couple of months. I believe George resides in Ft Worth, Texas and I in Sherman, Texas.

I noticed other email addresses on an email that I received from George this past week, and the email contained a name of a fellow that I attended school at Davis with in the fifth grade. I asked George in another email who this fellow was by the name of Jerry Burke, and also, I asked George to inquire of this man through an email, if this other guy had ever attended school at Davis back in the '50s.

George soon received an email back from this Mr Burke who stated that, yes he had in fact attended most of the fifth grade in Davis; but, had moved to Sulphur and enrolled at Washington Elementary with only four weeks of school left in 1956 school term. That is where he and George met and became life long friends.

I was overjoyed to say the least. I had found another classmate from long, long ago. Jerry makes three friends that I have found and either emailed with, met in person and visited, or just called on the phone, in the last five years or so. To do this, is exciting if one loves people as much as I do. I have always wondered whatever happened to whom ever down through the years, and when one finds out, it really makes one feel good.

Dr. Jerry Burke lives in Bakersfield California and works with different projects with his organization named the Burk Group. Seems Jerry has worked and lived in California, Montana, and Oklahoma and Tennessee as a university instructor at schools such as Phillips University in Enid Oklahoma and Oklahoma University in Norman.

Jerry, it is nice to have you back in our lives again. Maybe we can meet sometime when you come to Texas to visit one of your sons.

Edward S Bumgarner ©2009 sooner1944@gmail.com

Turner Falls Class of 1963

The Turner Falls Highschool Class of 1963 held their 45th Reunion in the home of Edd and Mary McNeil located east of Turner Falls City on May 10th, 2008 with fourteen members present.

Currently, there are about thirty members out of a class of thirty-seven, still living. Class members attending included: Don Carter, Pat Davis Ealey, Roy Webb, Paul Busby, Edd McNeil, Scott Bumgarner, Vernon Cherry, Janelle Webber Payne, Ronald Thomasson, Kathy Crumb Haworth, Cecile Staggs Hunter, Curtis Alpers, and Robert Hackney.

We sat around and ate burgers, dogs, and drank soft drinks and talked about old times. Lots of BS made the rounds, as usual, and a lot of funny stories made the rounds also.

We missed the others who couldn't attend. Some of us attended the Turner Falls highschool Alumni Association Banquet that evening.

It was really a pleasure to greet and sit down and talk to classmates that I hadn't seen since 1963.

We missed the following deceased members, as well: Anita Coffee Evans, Gene Deatherage, Kenny Cantero, Joe Cross, Rex Hottel, Don Neal, and Sharon Digby Hefley.

Hopefully, we can all meet again in 2013, if not sooner.