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SwitzerIsMyKing
11/26/2007, 03:42 PM
Buddy Burris (3 time All American) died at his home in Norman. He was 84. I was lucky enough to visit with Buddy on a couple of occasions and he was a great guy. He will be missed.
RacerX
11/26/2007, 03:59 PM
http://www.tulsaworld.com/articleimages/2007/bnburris_buddy.jpg
RacerX
11/26/2007, 04:00 PM
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=071126_2__NORMA54155
stoopified
11/26/2007, 04:04 PM
He was a great lineman.God's putting together quite an OU alumni team the last few years.Vessels,Heath,Burris,Gautt among others in the last few years.I wish I could recall all the Sooner greats who have gone on to that great gridiron in the sky.Should be a heckuva team for Bud to run.Other names that come to mind from years past inluded among these are Waddy Young,Bob Kalsu,Jerry Andersen.RIP SOONERS.
RacerX
11/26/2007, 04:27 PM
David Overstreet.
SwitzerIsMyKing
11/26/2007, 04:40 PM
Leon Heath passed away earlier this year.
85Sooner
11/26/2007, 04:49 PM
Who was the older guy in the wheelchair in that dvd of sooner greats?
he was kind of cantakerous (sp) but had alot of history to reveal
SteelClip49
11/26/2007, 04:50 PM
Paul "Buddy" Burris, G - 1946, 1947, 1948
Paul "Buddy" Burris became the first Sooner to earn All-America honors three times, including being named a consensus All-American in 1948. He said after his career was over that he should have been playing as a linebacker, but his play as both an offensive and defensive guard helped bring about an OU dynasty during the '50s.

Burris started a similar dynasty as four of his brothers would follow him into Norman to play for the Sooners. It's probably the largest family from one generation ever to play for Oklahoma.

He was drafted in the ninth round by Brooklyn in 1949. Burris was also the first player from OU to be inducted into the Helms Athletic Foundation Football Hall of Fame.

from soonersports.com
85sooners
11/26/2007, 04:59 PM
:(
SwitzerIsMyKing
11/26/2007, 05:41 PM
Buddy Burris was the old man in the wheelchair in the Greats DVD.
85Sooner
11/26/2007, 07:18 PM
I thought that was him. Glad we got him on Video.
ArkanSooner
11/26/2007, 08:02 PM
He was a great one.
OKC-SLC
11/26/2007, 08:50 PM
God bless Mrs. Burris.


And Mrs. Selmon.
AlbqSooner
11/26/2007, 08:51 PM
Rod Shoate is also on the list of Sooners gone on.
Legendarybud
11/26/2007, 11:27 PM
David Baker is another deceased Sooner. Ed Gray was the first Sooner of the 1956 team to die - in 1976.
SOONER STEAKER
11/26/2007, 11:36 PM
My father played with Mr. Burris on the 1946/1947 team. Dad passed away 9/11/06. I know Bud has his boys telling stories about their famlies and kids.

GOD BLESS THE WAR BOYS WHO MADE OKLAHOMA SUCH A GREAT FOOTBALL POWER!!

BOOMER SOONER
LittleWingSooner
11/27/2007, 12:02 AM
Since we are on the subject of Sooner greats death

Billy Vessels died in 2001 of heart failure.

Prentice Gautt died in 2005 of flu like symptoms. I don't know if they ever really got a cause of death on him. He wasn't really that old and the illness was pretty sudden.

Buck McPhail also died in March of 2005 due to the hardening of the arteries.

Leon Heath died to illness. Don't know exactly what it was. Probably related to old age.

David Baker died after a long battle with emphysema.

Waddy Young died in a plane accident in Japan during WW2

Bob Kalsu also died in an accident during the Vietnam War I think.

Rod Shoate died of AIDS basically.