Leonard E. (Lefty) McCoy from Chandler, Oklahoma, was an outstanding football player and track athlete for four years on Bison Hill.

From Shawnee, McCoy was a halfback and punter on football teams that were 21-14-1.

He made the Daily Oklahoman's All Oklahoma Collegiate Team in 1934 and he received honorable mention on the Associated Press' 1934 Little All America team.

McCoy was a member of track relay teams which won the 880 and mile at the Drake Relays in 1933.

He was on the 1934 and 1935 relay teams which won the mile at the Kansas Relays and which finished third and second, respectively, at the Drake Relays.

His individual events were the 200 and 440, and he was captain of the track team in 1934-35.

After graduation, he was head track coach and assistant football coach at Enid High School from 1935-43.

He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-46 and then began a career with the St. Joseph Surgical Supply in Missouri.

He worked with that firm from 1946-77, retiring as president.

He died in 1987.