Ed Skelton of Meeker was team captain of two sports at OBU: basketball in 1934-35 and football in the fall of 1935.

He was an All-Big Four Conference first team selection at end in 1932 and 1933. He was honorable mention on the Tulsa World's All-Oklahoma Collegiate team in 1932 and made the second team in 1934.

In basketball he averaged 4.3 points in 1934 and 4.1 points in 1935.

Skelton played one season for the Cleveland Rams of the NFL and played two seasons for an independent football team.

He was a combat infantryman in World War II and then taught and coached baseball in Shawnee from 1948-74. The Shawnee High School baseball park is named in his honor, Ed Skelton Field.

A member of the Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame, he died in 1989.