Oklahoma Baptist University Athletics

Shawnee's Clark Craig played football and basketball at OBU one season, 1920-21.

On the football team, he was a second-team Daily Oklahoman All-Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference selection at end and he received honorable mention for the Tulsa World's All-OIC team.

In basketball he scored 6.3 points a game out of the team's average of 19.9. After his freshman year, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he played for Coach John Heisman, the man for whom the famous trophy is named.

After graduating from Penn, Craig played professional football for the Frankford (Pennsylvania) Yellowjackets in the early days of the National Football League.

Craig returned to Shawnee where he became a prominent businessman, including serving as president of Federal National Bank. He was a strong backer of OBU and was involved in the effort to raise funds for several campus facilities.

In 1948 he was a leader in raising the money to move to OBU a recreation building from Camp Maxey, Texas. This building was reassembled, the outside brick veneered, and the interior finished as a gymnasium. Bison Fieldhouse became the home of OBU basketball from 1948-1982. In 1956, the gym was renamed the Clark Craig Fieldhouse.

Craig died in 1977.