TU's Star Quarterback Billy Guy Anderson Dies:- Saturday, April 13, 1996
BILLY GUY ANDERSON, who in 1965 set University of Tulsa passing records that have not been challenged, died late Thursday at a Houston hospital of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Anderson was 55.
A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday at Settegist-Kotf funeral home in Sugarland, Texas. He will be cremated.
Anderson, whose home was Ferris, Texas, and who transferred from Navarro Junior College, started at TU for only one season, in 1965. But in that season Anderson broke most of the records his friend and more celebrated teammate Jerry Rhome set in 1964.
Anderson set TU's single-game records with six touchdown passes against Cincinnati, 42 completions against Southern Illinois and 502 yards against Colorado State. He set season records with 296 completions, 3,464 yards and 30 touchdowns, while leading TU to the Bluebonnet Bowl and an 8-3 record. He led the nation in passing and was named second team All-American.
He was inducted into TU's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. His jersey (No. 14) was the seventh to be retired by TU in a touching ceremony last Sept. 23 during a reunion of the 1964 and 1965 Bluebonnet Bowl teams.
After a brief career in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams, Anderson used his TU contacts to enter the pipeline supply business. He moved to Houston and started his own pipeline business during the oil boom of the late '70s.
He was diagnosed in December of 1994 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare and incurable degenerative disease of the nerve cells that control muscular movement. It afflicts only two of 100,000 people. It became known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous New York Yankee first baseman and slugger died of the disease in 1941 at age 37.
Although confined to a wheelchair, Anderson was optimistic. His condition worsened two weeks ago when he was unable to breathe. He was hospitalized on April 2. He subsequently developed pneumonia and died of a heart attack.
Anderson is survived by his wife Tammie, a son Roman, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, a daughter Gina and an eight-month-old daughter Mackenzie.
University of Tulsa friends of Billy Anderson
announced Friday that in memory of the outstanding passer a memorial in his name will be established at TU. A TU spokesman said contributions for the Anderson memorial should be made to the university in care of the Hurricane Club.
BILLY GUY ANDERSON, who in 1965 set University of Tulsa passing records that have not been challenged, died late Thursday at a Houston hospital of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Anderson was 55.
A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday at Settegist-Kotf funeral home in Sugarland, Texas. He will be cremated.
Anderson, whose home was Ferris, Texas, and who transferred from Navarro Junior College, started at TU for only one season, in 1965. But in that season Anderson broke most of the records his friend and more celebrated teammate Jerry Rhome set in 1964.
Anderson set TU's single-game records with six touchdown passes against Cincinnati, 42 completions against Southern Illinois and 502 yards against Colorado State. He set season records with 296 completions, 3,464 yards and 30 touchdowns, while leading TU to the Bluebonnet Bowl and an 8-3 record. He led the nation in passing and was named second team All-American.
He was inducted into TU's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. His jersey (No. 14) was the seventh to be retired by TU in a touching ceremony last Sept. 23 during a reunion of the 1964 and 1965 Bluebonnet Bowl teams.
After a brief career in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams, Anderson used his TU contacts to enter the pipeline supply business. He moved to Houston and started his own pipeline business during the oil boom of the late '70s.
He was diagnosed in December of 1994 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare and incurable degenerative disease of the nerve cells that control muscular movement. It afflicts only two of 100,000 people. It became known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous New York Yankee first baseman and slugger died of the disease in 1941 at age 37.
Although confined to a wheelchair, Anderson was optimistic. His condition worsened two weeks ago when he was unable to breathe. He was hospitalized on April 2. He subsequently developed pneumonia and died of a heart attack.
Anderson is survived by his wife Tammie, a son Roman, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, a daughter Gina and an eight-month-old daughter Mackenzie.
University of Tulsa friends of Billy Anderson
announced Friday that in memory of the outstanding passer a memorial in his name will be established at TU. A TU spokesman said contributions for the Anderson memorial should be made to the university in care of the Hurricane Club.
TU's Star Quarterback Billy Guy Anderson Dies:- Saturday, April 13, 1996
BILLY GUY ANDERSON, who in 1965 set University of Tulsa passing records that have not been challenged, died late Thursday at a Houston hospital of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Anderson was 55.
A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday at Settegist-Kotf funeral home in Sugarland, Texas. He will be cremated.
Anderson, whose home was Ferris, Texas, and who transferred from Navarro Junior College, started at TU for only one season, in 1965. But in that season Anderson broke most of the records his friend and more celebrated teammate Jerry Rhome set in 1964.
Anderson set TU's single-game records with six touchdown passes against Cincinnati, 42 completions against Southern Illinois and 502 yards against Colorado State. He set season records with 296 completions, 3,464 yards and 30 touchdowns, while leading TU to the Bluebonnet Bowl and an 8-3 record. He led the nation in passing and was named second team All-American.
He was inducted into TU's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. His jersey (No. 14) was the seventh to be retired by TU in a touching ceremony last Sept. 23 during a reunion of the 1964 and 1965 Bluebonnet Bowl teams.
After a brief career in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams, Anderson used his TU contacts to enter the pipeline supply business. He moved to Houston and started his own pipeline business during the oil boom of the late '70s.
He was diagnosed in December of 1994 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare and incurable degenerative disease of the nerve cells that control muscular movement. It afflicts only two of 100,000 people. It became known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous New York Yankee first baseman and slugger died of the disease in 1941 at age 37.
Although confined to a wheelchair, Anderson was optimistic. His condition worsened two weeks ago when he was unable to breathe. He was hospitalized on April 2. He subsequently developed pneumonia and died of a heart attack.
Anderson is survived by his wife Tammie, a son Roman, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, a daughter Gina and an eight-month-old daughter Mackenzie.
University of Tulsa friends of Billy Anderson
announced Friday that in memory of the outstanding passer a memorial in his name will be established at TU. A TU spokesman said contributions for the Anderson memorial should be made to the university in care of the Hurricane Club.
BILLY GUY ANDERSON, who in 1965 set University of Tulsa passing records that have not been challenged, died late Thursday at a Houston hospital of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Anderson was 55.
A memorial service is scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday at Settegist-Kotf funeral home in Sugarland, Texas. He will be cremated.
Anderson, whose home was Ferris, Texas, and who transferred from Navarro Junior College, started at TU for only one season, in 1965. But in that season Anderson broke most of the records his friend and more celebrated teammate Jerry Rhome set in 1964.
Anderson set TU's single-game records with six touchdown passes against Cincinnati, 42 completions against Southern Illinois and 502 yards against Colorado State. He set season records with 296 completions, 3,464 yards and 30 touchdowns, while leading TU to the Bluebonnet Bowl and an 8-3 record. He led the nation in passing and was named second team All-American.
He was inducted into TU's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. His jersey (No. 14) was the seventh to be retired by TU in a touching ceremony last Sept. 23 during a reunion of the 1964 and 1965 Bluebonnet Bowl teams.
After a brief career in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams, Anderson used his TU contacts to enter the pipeline supply business. He moved to Houston and started his own pipeline business during the oil boom of the late '70s.
He was diagnosed in December of 1994 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare and incurable degenerative disease of the nerve cells that control muscular movement. It afflicts only two of 100,000 people. It became known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous New York Yankee first baseman and slugger died of the disease in 1941 at age 37.
Although confined to a wheelchair, Anderson was optimistic. His condition worsened two weeks ago when he was unable to breathe. He was hospitalized on April 2. He subsequently developed pneumonia and died of a heart attack.
Anderson is survived by his wife Tammie, a son Roman, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, a daughter Gina and an eight-month-old daughter Mackenzie.
University of Tulsa friends of Billy Anderson
announced Friday that in memory of the outstanding passer a memorial in his name will be established at TU. A TU spokesman said contributions for the Anderson memorial should be made to the university in care of the Hurricane Club.
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