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Bob Ledbetter was a three-sport athlete at Southeastern Oklahoma State from 1958-1962, competing in football, baseball and track before becoming a coaching legend in Texas High School football.
The Ardmore, Okla., native is a 1962 graduate of the University and following graduation began a coaching career in which he would climb every mountain in the highly competitive world of high school football in Texas.
Ledbetter spent his first 10 years as an assistant coach at Frisco, Texas, before taking over the head coaching position there.
After three years as the head coach at Frisco, he took the position of head coach at Southlake Carroll, where he spent the next 17 years writing his name in the annals of Texas High School football history.
Under Ledbetter, the Dragons won 208 games over a 17-year stretch that included three 16-0 state championships (1988, 1992, 1993) and a national record 72 consecutive regular season wins.
He has many times been named District Coach of the Year and was State Coach of the Year three times. He has coached All-Star teams, posted seven undefeated regular seasons and his 1986-1993 Dragons logged a cumulative 113-5-1 record.
The Horns Illustrated magazine (Vol. 8, Nos. 5-6) declared his 1992 team the Greatest Team of All-Time in Texas High School football in any classification. In 1993, Carroll was recognized as the Most Noteworthy football team in Texas and honored with the Gordon Wood Award.
Coaching was an obvious strength for Ledbetter, but he also placed a strong emphasis on academics as Carroll High School twice earned the University Interscholastic League’s Lone Star Cup for the state’s best athletic and academic programs.
He was named a Distinguished Alumni of Southeastern in 2005.
Ledbetter, throughout his years as an athlete and a coach, excelled to a level that brings great honor to Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The University honored him with membership in the Southeastern Oklahoma State Athletics Hall of Fame on August 23, 2014.
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