Four of the seven living football players who survived the 1970 Shocker football plane crash write about their memories and how they’ve coped through the years.
I’ll begin my story from the summer of 1970. I stayed in Wichita with three of my teammates: Donnie Christian, who I had been best friends with since the second grade; Johnny Taylor and Randy Kiesau. We were all juniors-to-be and spent the summer working, working out and playing. We did all three very hard!
We all have different ways of dealing with grief. I think each of the survivors of the plane crash in Colorado in 1970, and the survivors of the victims, all dealt with the grief differently.
I came to the Wichita State football program in the spring of 1969 after transferring from the University of Oklahoma. During spring practice I earned a starting position as an offensive lineman, an accomplishment that I was sure would not have occurred at OU.
The city and partners in the Wichita Sports Forum are in a “conversation” over substantial upgrades and additions to the Stryker Soccer Complex near K-96 and Greenwich through the assistance of a potentially expanded STAR bonds district.
