re: Name a random college football player from the past

Joe Haden

Feleipe Franks

Willie Earl Gillespie
Joe Carter
Breck Tyler

George Wilson, Arky WR

The only professional athlete killed in Vietnam. Kalsu was a 1967 all-American at OU, a 1968 starter on the Buffalo Bills’ offensive line and a 1969 soldier fighting a war.

U.S. Army First Lieutenant James Robert “Bob” Kalsu was killed in action on July 21, 1970 in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. Bob was 25 years old and from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A Battery, 2nd BN, 11th Artillery, 101st Airborne Division.

Bob Kalsu, who entered the US Army after his rookie season, is killed in Thua Thien, Vietnam. Kalsu's wife would give birth to a son two days after his death.

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Put Dan Ruster’s name on the list. He came to OU from Colorado, was a highly-touted quarterback but moved to defensive back and became a good player on the great 1971 and 1972 teams. Ruster, who now lives in Franklin, Tennessee, has written me before, but he wrote me again this week about Kalsu. I thought I would share his story:

“Bob Kalsu’s death may have saved my life. “It was the summer of 1970. I was an OU football player between my freshman and sophomore year and working for the summer in Norman helping install the new artificial turf. I was also deciding whether to transfer colleges due to the coaches moving me to a new position I didn’t want to play. My problem was getting drafted into the armed forces and possibly going to Vietnam. I already had a low draft number, 68, and my district was drafting up to 190. My dilemma was to transfer, lose my deferment for a semester and possibly be drafted.

“To get paid for our summer job, we had to go to the coach’s office. It was July, and when I went into the offices all the secretaries were crying and hugging the coaches. I didn’t know or even had heard the name Bob Kalsu. But it was the day the OU family found out about his death in Vietnam. It shook me to the core. Who was this man and why such a reaction?

“Bobby Warmack, who was my freshman coach, took me aside and told me who he was and why his death meant so much to so many. I left the offices that day committing to come back and finish my school at OU. In a roundabout way, Bob Kalsu’s death possibly saved my life if I had transferred. “To this day that day stands out as an ah-ha moment and is seared in my memory. To never know of someone who sacrificed his life so I could finish college and stay out of harm’s way. My dad was a B17 pilot in WW2, shot down and a POW. My son is a Marine who was wounded in Iraq. God bless our veterans and may we never forget.”

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He once said his mom named him Siran after Saran Wrap since she thought it the best thing since sliced bread.

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He pranked the commentators at the Sugar Bowl pre-game with that. They bit and aired it.

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Stanley Morgan Jr.
Nebraska's #1 all-time in receiving yards, from New Orleans, Louisiana.