12-05-2006, 06:26 PM
Tulsa (AP) - Long-time high school football coach and athletic director Dan Crookham - who introduced American football to the former Soviet Union - has died at age 57.
Crookham died Saturday of a heart attack.
Crookham spent more than the past 20 years in the Tulsa area as a coach at East Central, Rogers and Edison and was athletic director at Edison at the time of his death. He also coached at Lawton MacArthur, Locust Grove, Liberal, Kansas; and Wichita Falls, Texas.
In 1989 Crookham took a group of Oklahoma high school players overseas for what's believed to be the first American football games in what was then the U-S-S-R. He later took groups of Oklahomans to play games in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Hawaii.
Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 3 at Floral Haven Funeral Home.
i had him for an instructor. good guy.
Crookham died Saturday of a heart attack.
Crookham spent more than the past 20 years in the Tulsa area as a coach at East Central, Rogers and Edison and was athletic director at Edison at the time of his death. He also coached at Lawton MacArthur, Locust Grove, Liberal, Kansas; and Wichita Falls, Texas.
In 1989 Crookham took a group of Oklahoma high school players overseas for what's believed to be the first American football games in what was then the U-S-S-R. He later took groups of Oklahomans to play games in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Hawaii.
Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 3 at Floral Haven Funeral Home.
i had him for an instructor. good guy.