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Waco-Tribune Herald: Super Bowl pioneer Crutcher headed to Texas HS Football Hall of Fame
By JOHN WERNER jwerner@wacotrib.com
Tommy Joe Crutcher grew up on a farm in McKinney in a large family of 14 children.
The boys were expected to help out with farm chores and not complain about it. But when Crutcher got a chance to play football, he played with unrestrained joy.
“Without the boys helping out on the farm we might not have been able to keep the farm,” said Diane Crutcher, his younger sister. “But he loved football. I always interpreted it as their way out of McKinney.”
Crutcher was a two-way star for McKinney as a running back and linebacker in the late 1950s, and will be inducted with this year’s class in the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame. Like older brothers Tex and Don, he was happy to get a shot to play college football as he chose TCU over many other schools including Baylor and Texas A&M.
Read more at http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/texa...cle_53c914e5-8e2b-599f-9bcc-9442a7779de8.html