![]() MacRae worked as an assistant basketball coach, and Baysinger led the Orange football team in 19. Two other stars on the 1923 squad-Captain and All-America end Evander “Pete” MacRae and Reaves “Ribs” Baysinger-also later coached at Syracuse. “Not only can the redoubtable Simmons handle an eleven like a Roman captain, but he can carry a football towards a Pittsburgh goal just as surely as Jack Dempsey is the hardest hitting slugger in the world’s heavyweight ring.” I want to thank all the coaches and players. “Simmons, Coach Meehan’s field general, is showing a knowledge of the gridiron game well nigh equal to the football sense of many coaches,” the DO reported. This morning I made the decision to start my coaching career at the University of Cameron in Lawton Oklahoma. He also guided the boxing team to a national title in 1936 and served as an assistant coach on the 1959 national champion football team. A versatile and talented athlete, Simmons was a three-time letterman in football, earned All-America honors playing on two national championship lacrosse teams and would become a Hall of Fame lacrosse coach, leading the Orange from 1931 to 1970. He is also known as a painter and sculptor. Syracuse’s signal caller was Orange legend Roy Simmons Sr. McBride is a photographer of reportage, art photography and book illustration. ![]()
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