Shepard, Frank 2022-05-25
This interview features Frank Shepard as he details his career in college football officiating. In this interview, Shepard provides a brief overview of his childhood before moving on to describes his service in the Air Force. He then transitions in to discussing how he got in to officiating college football games before moving on to officiate in the Southwest Conference. Shepard provides multiple stories and vignettes from his officiating days that include coaches from A&M, Texas Tech, UT, and SMU. The interview ends with Shepard describing building up his own family and raising big cats.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Frank Shepard
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: May 25, 2022
Location: Midland, Texas
Interviewer: Zachary Hernandez
Length: 02:15:36 (2 hours 15 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and background information; Enlisting in the Air Force and working at Sheppard Air Force Base; Joining the Air Force baseball team, becoming a gunnery instructor ; first experience officiating a game; Getting a job as an official in the Southwest Conference; His officiating crew; Bad experience going to Baylor; the Orange Bowl; Another Baylor incident; Texas Tech; Working in the Big 12 Conference; Arkansas story; The Fiesta Bowl game and more officiating stories; R.C. Slocum story; the most difficult aspects of officiating games; SMU versus Baylor prank; his favorite things about officiating games; Memories about Texas A&M Aggies; His family and raising big cats
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/374127 >
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