Bobby Williams, 1935 - 2010

Most old-timers will have heard that Bobby Williams died suddenly this week. Bobby grew up in the Missouri City area and attended Missouri City schools. He was an outstanding football player for the Mustangs, who were Sugar Land's biggest rival. He played for Rice Institute as it was then called. He eventually coached there too, but before that he was head coach at Dulles High School. He was married to Carolyn McCord Williams, a home-grown Sugar Lander. He and Carolyn made their home in Sugar Land for many years. I last saw him and Carolyn at the Sugar Land High School Reunion in June, 2009. I guess you could say he was a Gator-in-law.

For almost a year now, I've been working on a video documentary on Sugar Land High School football in the Kenneth Hall era. I've collected lots of video interviews of players from that era. They all speak highly of Bobby. The City of Sugar Land interviewed him at Kempner Field on the same topic, and they've graciously lent me their video to use in the documentary. I'll use clips in the final cut, but I thought it appropriate to post the full interview now.