A Winner from Start to Finish He was born June 30, 1934, in Hillsdale, KS. The family later moved to Spring Hill , KS, where he was an outstanding high school athlete and a 1952 graduate, and where, incidentally, his father served as mayor. He enrolled at Kansas State College in Manhattan in the fall of 1952. After attending Kansas State for two years, he transferred to Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia for 1954-55 before transferring to Harding in the fall of 1955 because of his desire to attend a Christian college. He graduated from Harding in the spring of Communicator. Coach Ted Lloyd explains a situation to his class and how they should handle it. - photo by Wes Holland. 1957 with a major in physical education and a minor in mathematics. He was employed the following fall by Harding Academy to teach biology and to coach. In December of 1957 , he married his college sweetheart, Marcie Crawford, who has taught in Harding Elementary School for many years. They have two children, Rees. a son, who graduated from Harding cum laude in the spring of 1984, and a daughter, Melissa, who is a sophomore in Harding Academy. He directed the Academy track, football, and basketball programs for seven years , achieving a very impressive record . He re- I placed Hugh Groover who had been chosen head basketball and track roach when Harding College resumed intercollegiate athletics in the fall of 1957 . On February ' 11. 1961, Harding Academy won its first ever county basketbaU tournament , the same day his son was born . His track team won the Class B state championship in 1964, after placing second in both 1961 and 1963. His 1963 football team was urldefeated and fini shed the season ranked fourth in the state and he was named Coach of the Year in Class B by the Arkansas Democrat. The high esteem in which he was held by the Academy students was revealed by his receiving the Academy Petit Jean dedication in both 1959 and 1964. In 1964, after he had received his Master's degree in natural science from the University of Mississippi , where he had attended during summers, he was appointed assistant track and football coach in the college program . In 1966, he was named head track coach, and in 1968, head cross country coach. In 1981 , he volunteered to coach the first women's cross country team at Harding in order to implement an intercollegiate program for the women. He has achieved a phenomenal record as a university coach. His cross country teams have won the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference championship 15 times. the last 14 being consecutive. His track teams have won three AIC championships and have ranked in the top five teams all but three years since 1966. In the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics, he has coached five national champions, two cross country All-Americans , and 18 track All-Americans. Two of these athletes, Jim Crawford and Cliff Clark, were subsequently elected to the NAIA Hall of Fame. In both the AIC and the NAIA District 17 he has been elected Coach of the Year several times. He is recognized as one of the outstanding track coaches of the United States and he has also received international recognition. He was chosen coach of the Panama national track team in 1969-70 and in the 16-day 1970 Central Ameri ca n-Caribbean Games, his Panamanian team placed fourth among the 22 teams en tered. He was coach of the U.S. AAU team to South America in 1974 and the NAIA All -Star I team sent to Mexico in 1979. He was clinic lecturer in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1982. In
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