D.A. Brazel earned nine letters at OBU—four each in basketball and football and one in baseball.

Brazel, who came to OBU from Ardmore, later moved to Springfield, Illinois.

A guard on the basketball team, he was the team captain for the 1928-29 season.

On the football field, Brazel played guard. He was a member of OBU football teams which did not lose a home game, going 13-0-3 in the 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1928 seasons.

Brazel coached and taught in Oklahoma high schools from 1929-32, worked for Shell Oil from 1932-48, was an international representative for the International Union of Operating Engineers from 1948-69, and then served as a neutral arbitrator in union-management disputes from 1969-76.

He died in 1989 in Big Springs, Texas.