Walt Davis
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"Walter Francis "Walt" Davis" is an Olympic Games/Olympic gold medalist in the high jump, and later basketball player, from the United States. He was born in Beaumont, Texas.

Despite contracting polio at age nine and being unable to walk for three years, Davis had a standout athletic career at Texas A&M University and later won Olympic gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, with a leap of .

The Golden State Warriors/Philadelphia Warriors selected the Davis in the second round of the 1952 NBA Draft. He spent five seasons with the Warriors and Atlanta Hawks/St. Louis Hawks, averaging 4.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.

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You got to have a lot of desire I guess and then the other thing is you got can't have any fear, and these kids don't have any fear of not getting the job done or fear of not being good at what they're doing. Size never comes into the forefront, and you wish you could bottle some of that and put it into your bigger kids.

It was a whale of a football game (against West), and we talk about being family all the time and when families are hurting, you pull together even more, and I certainly hope our kids will do that and go back and understand we had a tremendous season.

When you hear about our team, you hear about if you make a mistake, they'll get some runs, and I just think people press a little bit against us early in the game, and we were able to get a few runs. They know if they don't pick it up and throw it fast, we'll be on base.

Everybody sitting around and talking football is good for our area, and hopefully we can continue to make this thing grow and bring in some good speakers, because we've had some excellent ones here.