{"id":2400,"date":"2023-11-24T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:03:55","slug":"jack-locklear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/1998\/jack-locklear\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Locklear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Born February 20, 1932. Two year All County fullback and linebacker at DeKalb County High School. All Tri-State. SIgned a football scholarship with Auburn University where he was a four-year starter and was named co-captain. North\/South All-Star game, and starting center in the 1955 Senior Bowl. Played in two Gator Bowls. Member of the All-Time Team at Auburn. In 1954, the coached deemed him the best center and linebacker at Auburn in 20 years. Honorable mention All American; All Opponents Teams by 11 teams. Drafted seventh by the Cleveland Browns. After his playing days, Jack was a successful coach. Coached football, baseball, and track at Murphy High School in Mobile. Won state championship in track. Returned to Fort Payne; served on the Board of Education and the Recreation Department Board. Was instrumental in the building of the new Fort Payne High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born February 20, 1932. Two year All County fullback and linebacker at DeKalb County High School. All Tri-State. SIgned a football scholarship with Auburn University where he was a four-year starter and was named co-captain. North\/South All-Star game, and starting center in the 1955 Senior Bowl. Played in two Gator Bowls. Member of the All-Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-45","tag-dekalb-county-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcshof.morethanconquers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}