True story: Jack Hartman is a native of Dewey, OK, about an hour away from Okie State, where Hartman played collegiate basketball. Hartman always had an affinity for the Pokes.
Although at this point it probably is just nit-piking but I once worked with a fellow who said his father went to HS with Jack at I thought Shidler OK, which is on the East side of Kaw Lake on the highway South of Dexter. Shidler is 100-150 miles West of Dewey but is about an hour from Stillwater while it may be 1-2 hours from Dewey to Stillwater. Again, I think, but not positive, he was recruited to OSU to play FB and his first job out of college was as an assistant to Coach Iba for the Cowboys BB team, but I cannot remember if Jack actually played basket ball in college.
This is another old geezer story: before he went to Coffey JC, where he won a National JC BB championship, in the 1950's Jack was the HS BB coach at either Plainville or Phillipsburg (one of the "P" towns North of Hays). Can anyone verify that fact and what town it was?
He was the head basketball coach and head football coach at Plainville.
After he retired he did the color analysis for radio. my wife called him the colorless color man. He was horrible. I mean way worse than coach Z horrible.
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