Gerald “Corky” Oglesby came to OBU from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to run track. He contributed greatly to OBU athletics during the 1960s when he helped recruit a significant number of quality athletes for his alma mater.

Best known among his recruits were the Tucker brothers from Dayton, Ohio—Al and Gerald—who launched an outstanding three-year run (1964-67) for the Bison basketball team. (Al Tucker would become the first and only OBU player selected in the first round of the NBA draft.)

Oglesby also recruited Charles Stewart of College Station, Texas, who was point guard on OBU’s 1966 national championship basketball team and who signed with the St. Louis Cardinals to play professional baseball. Other recruits included Bob Banfield (later a Bison basketball head coach) and Ralph Conrad, members of the 1966 basketball title team.

Oglesby was head track coach at Texas Tech University from 1975-95. His list of successful athletes included 32 All-Americans, eleven Southwest Conference outdoor champions and seven Southwest Conference indoor individual champions.and was later on the staff of Tech’s Red Raider Club. He was involved with Texas Tech athletics for nearly 50 years. 

He passed away in 2017.