Walter Fondren
Walter William Fondren III (April 29, 1936 – January 28, 2010) was an American football player and conservation activist. He played halfback and later quarterback for the Texas Longhorns from 1955 to 1957. He could throw the running pass in the split-T option and drew comparisons to SMU's Doak Walker because of his ability to run, pass and punt the football.
Fondren was drafted 354th overall by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1958 NFL Draft, but turned down a professional football career, as he was already a millionaire-to-be with his family owning interest in Humble Oil, an oil company his grandfather, Walter Fondren, Sr., founded in 1911.
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“Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only, we die in earnest—that’s no jest.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)