SoonerSports.com - Memorial Day: Remembering Waddy Young

[Jenni Carlson]

Waddy Young's biography is summarized by a list of firsts. He was the Oklahoma's first consensus football All-American and led the Sooners to their first bowl game, the 1939 Orange Bowl.As a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers football franchise, he played in the NFL's first televised game.He was among the first to pilot a B-29 Superfortress over Japanese targets during World War II. On Jan. 9, 1945, returning from a mission over the skies of Tokyo, he was the first to turn around.

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[owenfieldreams]

Waddy Young was my Godfather. He and my dad were both from Ponca City and they were Sigma Chi fraternity brothers @ OU.

I never met him. I was 2 years old when his B-29 disappeared over the Pacific in WW11.