Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983 Page: 16
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Clement:won everything. Now when I go down there, up until this
year, the blacks won everything. The whites started win-
ing some this time. I'm sure glad we're getting to where we
can compete back with them.
Talk a little bit about your own football career at Bowie.
For instance, what position or positions did you play in
high school, and what kind of football player were you.?
We'll let you brag a little bit about yourself.
This could get deep, I guess (laughter). At Bowie, we had
the most successful high school basketball coach in the State
of Texas. Through a process of lucky move-ins--recruiting or
whatever word you want to use--he'd won four state champion-
ships in a row. As the basketball program got good, he let
his football program go down, and they fired him the year
after I left. He's in the Texas Hall of Fame now. But our
football...he was still in the single wing era.
Did he coach both sports?
He coached both sports and was the track coach at the same time.
What was his name?
Raymond Mattingly. Tremendous coach. If you read the list of
Texas Hall of Fame high school coaches, he's in it. Mat-
tingly was in the single wing, and he hadn't made the adjust-
ment over to the "T," and so we still ran the single wing.
And we just had two other coaches in high school that worked
with us. We didn't have a whole lot of athletic ability, and
we were short a number of coaches, and we were behind in the
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Clement, Raymond. Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983, book, July 6, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223649/m1/18/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.