Updated: 7:48 PM CDT May 1, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Texas Tragic news spread throughout East Texas Friday as it was announced that Pete Lammons, the former Jacksonville High School, University of Texas and NFL football star died during a fishing tournament. He was 77.
In 2000 Lammons and his brothers organized a yearly $5,000 scholarship in honor of their father, and to emphasize its focus on education, the football player could not receive the money until they showed proof they had graduated from a four-year university.
Our Alan Kasper caught up with his friend Wayne Coleman, the Athletic Director of Jacksonville High School, to find out more about the man.