Robert Granville Mays of Prague, Oklahoma, attended OBU from 1946-50 following his service in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was a classmate of Robert E. (Bob) Bass, a Bison basketball and baseball star.

Mays returned to OBU to teach English about the same time Bass returned to coach the basketball team.

Bass talked Mays into driving one of the vehicles transporting the team to road games and also persuaded him to keep the scorebook.

Mays began a 25-year affiliation with the basketball program, keeping the scorebook at home and road games for 15 years and at home for an additional 10.

He was not just a keeper of the score; he also recorded for each player: field goals attempted and made; free throws attempted and made; rebounds (whether offensive or defensive); turnovers (and the type—traveling, errant pass, offensive foul, etc.); personal fouls; time outs (specific time taken); and completed a play-by-play at the bottom of the book which indicated the player scoring, type of shot, and time of the score.

In the days before the home team was required to provide game statistics, Mays' scorebooks enabled OBU to have accurate stats for each game.

Mays served as OBU's librarian from 1963-72 and then began a career as an elementary teacher.

He died in 2000.