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Phil C
03-20-2007, 10:17 AM
One thing positive about Jim Dent's book The Undefeated is that I noticed a picture that included a halfback named Jack Ging who played on the 1953 team that started the 47 game win streak. Jack Ging has been a great character actor for many years. He has been in several movies and tv series usually as a guest star. He was General Fullbright in The A Team and played Morgon Allen in the Clint Eastwood Movie High Plains Drifter (he was the wounded man that went to warn the three baddies about Clint). He played football for Oklahoma from 1951 to 1953 even though he only weighted about 152 lbs. Below is his picture in action as he eludes a tackler against Oklahoma State in 1953. During the three years he played for Oklahoma they went 25-4-2. In his last game the Sooners beat No. 1 Maryland 7 to 0 in the Orange Bowl.
After college he served his country in the Marines for 4 years and then started his acting career.

I saw one of his first movies made which was called Sniper's Ridge made in 1961 and it was good and he was good in that movie. I keep hoping to catch it on tv sometime.

He was from Alva, Oklahoma.

This may be a great find for the 3A downlow because I don't think too many web sites have pointed this out if any so we may have a scoop here. It just goes to show that 3A downlow is really up to par!




http://www-lib.ou.edu/etc/westhist/Football/images/OU46.jpg

Phil C
03-20-2007, 10:19 AM
Below is information on his acting career. Very impressive indeed.


http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkmRD._9FKVABy9JXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2bmUwZ2Q yBGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANGNjU1X zk4/SIG=11rbo2vgs/EXP=1174490307/**http%3a//www.imdb.com/Name%3fGing,%2bJack

Phil C
03-20-2007, 10:27 AM
Below is a brief biography of his grandson who is now a sophomore at Kansas State playing linebacker. The link may not work but you can get it by doing a search on John Houlik. His grandfather is Jack Ging who played at Oklahoma and his other grandfather was Anton Houlik who was a hall of fame back at Wichita State.
No wonder Kansas State pulled the upset last year against UT! And he is a sophomore this year with those great genes from great players. That increases the risk!


http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkkJ8_f9F008B0slXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2bmUwZ2Q yBGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANGNjU1X zk4/SIG=148c1g7mr/EXP=1174490876/**http%3a//www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml%3fSPSID=3062%26SPID=212%26DB_OEM_ ID=400%26ATCLID=291632%26Q_SEASON=2006

Phil C
03-20-2007, 11:28 AM
You can see Jack Ging as Morgan Allen in the Clint Eastwood Movie High Plains Drifter on American Movie Classics (AMC) Channel on Thursday March 29th at 9:15 P.M. EST.

Exciting news indeed!

Phil C
03-21-2007, 12:31 PM
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