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Wewoka Chamber Banquet
Monday, March 30, 2020• 6pm
Wewoka Civic Center
123 S. Mekusukey • Wewoka, OK 74884
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: BARRY SWITZER
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B
arry Switzer was born in Crossett, Arkansas in 1937.
He was a top student and athlete at Crossett High
School. In 1955, he graduated with an appointment to
the United States Naval Academy and received scholarship offers
from several colleges, including The University of Arkansas and
Louisiana State University. He attended the University of Arkansas,
completing his bachelor degree in business in 1960.
Coach Switzer played center and linebacker for the
Razorbacks and was captain of the 1959 team that was the
Southwestern Conference and Gator Bowl champions. Coach
Switzer returned to The University of Arkansas as a coach in 1961
after his military service. In 1966 he became Offensive Line Coach
under Jim MacKenzie at The University of Oklahoma.
In 1973, Coach Switzer became the Head Coach at The
University of Oklahoma. During the next sixteen years he compiled
an overall record of 157-29-4, including 12 Big Eight Conference
Championships, and three National Championships. His overall
record ranks behind only Knute Rockne, Frank Lahey and George
Woodruff in career college football winning percentage.
In 1994, he was named Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
In 1995, the Cowboys were Super Bowl Champions. Coach
Switzer is one of only two coaches who have won National
Championships in both the NCAA and NFL.
Coach Switzer has been honored with awards and special
titles by football and news magazines, Walter Camp Foundation,
The Big Eight Conference, NCAA, The Washington Pigskin Club,
The Sporting News, Playboy, Associated Press and United Press
International. He has previously been inducted in the Oklahoma and
Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. His accomplishments have also included best selling author, successful businessman in a myriad of businesses and very quietly, and
effective philanthropist. He is the founding organizer of the Swing for Sight Golf Tournaments, which have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Society
for the Prevention of Blindness. For the past thirty years, coach Switzer has given his name, time and participation as Honorary Head Coach of the Oklahoma
Special Olympics. Seventeen years ago he funded a private foundation at The University of Oklahoma, which provides non-athletic scholarships for minority
students. Recently, a major athletic facility at The University of Oklahoma was named in his honor. In 2001 he was inducted into the National College Football
Hall of Fame.
Today he is retired and living in Norman, Oklahoma with his wife, Becky, three children, two step children and six grandchildren.
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