OBU Athletics Hall of Fame
S.M. (Buddy) Wilcoxson of Purcell, Oklahoma, participated in fours sports, earning 14 letters.
He was basketball team captain in 1923-24 and 1924-25 and was a second team All-Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference guard in 1925.
He played end and running back on the football team and ran the low hurdles and half mile in track. He was the football team captain in 1923.
He coached and taught at Shawnee High School from 1925-37 and was football co-coach at OBU in 1935-36 and head basketball coach from 1935-37.
He returned to the Shawnee School System and was principal of Irving School before moving to the Bethel School System where he was superintendent from 1949-68. He also served on the Oklahoma Highway Commission.
Wilcoxson died in 1988.Â