Texas football legend Jack Pardee dies at 76
Jack Pardee's life in football took him from Christoval's South Concho River to Junction's parched playing fields to the Los Angeles Coliseum to the nation's capital to the Astrodome and points beyond.
And at each stop, he left classmates, teammates and friends who remembered him Monday, on the occasion of his death at age 76 from cancer, as a teammate to be admired, a coach to be respected and a friend to be cherished.
"I met him when I was a freshman in college, and he was a prince of a guy," said Dennis Goehring, also a member of the exclusive fraternity that was Paul "Bear" Bryant's Junction Boys at Texas A&M in the 1950s. "And he never changed. He was always a prince of a guy."
Even among the long list of Texas football legends, Pardee's story ranks in rarefied air. He was a six-man football champion, a member of the A&M team Bryant held closest to his heart, an All-Pro linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins and a Coach of the Year at every level he plied his trade in college and the pros.
More at http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Texas-football-legend-Jack-Pardee-dies-at-76-4401134.php .
