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Bobby Beene played and graduated from Royse City High School in the early 1950’s. He played receiver and quarterback for the Bulldogs and in his junior season he scored over 100 points as a receiver. He also continued his football career playing end for the East Texas State University Lions. After graduation, Mr. Beene joined the United States Army and played and excelled in the Eastern European Football League while enlisted. He also completed his education and would serve as the Assistant Superintendent of Finance for Arlington ISD.  He would retire serving 30 years in the public school system. Receiving multiple awards serving the district, that included 84 campuses, as their Budget Director.  Beene also served as a football coach at several school districts which included Abilene, Woodrow Wilson, Sunset and Thomas Jefferson High Schools.

Pat Otts  was a phenomenal athlete for Royse City in the late 1930's, Pat Otts quarterbacked the Bulldogs to their first ever Bi-District Championship in 1938. Not only did Otts lead the Bulldogs to their first Regional Championship game, he also helped to set a Bi-District Championship record in Texas at that time, by defeating the Leonard Tigers 92-0!  Mr. Otts was the 1939 Valedictorian of Royse City High School. Otts was a highly recruited athlete throughout the country, but Vanderbilt was his choice of six highly respected programs, including Texas Christian University. In 1939, legendary TCU Coach, Dutch Meyer, said of Otts that, "He was equal to two of his All-American pupils, Sammy Baugh and Davy O'Brien and that he was keenly disappointed at losing out", on securing Otts to the Horned Frogs of TCU. Otts would later graduate from the University of Texas at Austin and then serve over 30 years officiating football. He was honored as an honorary lifetime member of the Southwest Football Officials Association. Otts once said,  "It's easy to hit every target on the football field from 20 to 40 yards out, it was at the 70 yard range that I may become a trifle wild and only hit about half my attempts." It was not uncommon for Otts to pass 35-40 times per game when the running game was most popular during this period. 

Earl Parks was also a legendary running back and quarterback in Royse City High School football history as he played on the first Bi-District Championship football team in 1938. A unanimous choice All-District football player, he joins fellow RCISD Hall of Fame teammates Billy Joe Ellis, Arthur Pollard and Pat Otts from that same 1938 Championship football team. Mr. Parks received a football scholarship to play for Arkansas A&M Mule Riders as their quarterback. While there he also earned the title as the State of Arkansas Middleweight Boxing Champion. After his collegiate career, Parks would enter World War II as a pilot. He would fly several missions piloting B-25 Bombers. One mission included a flyover at Tokyo Bay over the USS Missouri as the Instrument of Surrender by Japan was being signed by General Douglas MacArthur and representatives of the Emperor of Japan to end World War II on September 2, 1945. 

Johnny Rascoe is a lifelong resident of Royse City, Texas.  In the early 1950's Mr. Rascoe played and starred for the Royse City Bulldog High School football team. Johnny's first encounter with Bulldog football was with legendary Royse City Football Coach J.T. Fitzpatrick. Johnny Rascoe was thirteen years old when he first got involved in the Bulldog program when he was the manager/waterboy for the l943 District Champs Bulldogs. Later on as he was in high school he played football, baseball and basketball for the Bulldogs  graduating in 1951. He traveled to Corpus Christi, TX to attend Del Mar College on an athletic scholarship playing football there for two years graduating in 1953.  The 1952 Del Mar Vikings played in one of the few Junior College football bowl games at that time in Jackson, MS defeating Pearl River Jr. College. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956 with a degree in Business.