Quarter Horse Legends

A Legend Returns

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – When Chuck Howley played football at West Virginia University, Morgantown ended at the Wally Reed Exxon station on Monongahela Boulevard, WVU was referred to everywhere throughout the state as simply the University (with a capital U), the campus had about 5,000 students and athletes were lucky if they got the necessary tutors and support they needed to get their degrees.

Of course much has changed since Howley last played for the Mountaineers in 1957. He noted as much during a rare campus visit last week.

“I can’t get over the support the school has given the athletes,” Howley said last Wednesday in his noticeable Texas drawl. “I think between my junior and senior year we were starting to get tutors at that time, but that was the extent of it.

“There are so many advantages to come here now.”

Howley, who turns 75 this Tuesday, is a success story on many different levels. The Wheeling native was a five-sport letterman at WVU (football, swimming, gymnastics, wrestling and track) who was named the Southern Conference Athlete of the Year in 1956. He was the 1-meter diving champion in swimming and was a 10.1 sprinter in track; he was a heavyweight on the wrestling team and was also extremely adept on the trampoline in gymnastics.

In fact, he was such a gifted athlete that WVU coach Art “Pappy” Lewis had a difficult time trying to figure out how best to utilize Howley’s ahead-of-his-time talents on the gridiron. During an era when brute strength still ruled over speed and quickness, Lewis thought Howley would be most effective playing along the line of scrimmage at guard and center, where he often fought off triple-teams to make tackles in the backfield.

Once during a game against William & Mary, Howley faked like he was going to rush the passer before using his terrific instincts and quickness to drop back into coverage and bat down a pass (later in the pros with the Cowboys Howley was one of the few players coach Tom Landry permitted to freelance on defense).

“I never saw anyone who recovered so quickly,” Pitt scout Darrell Lewis once marveled of Howley’s football skills.

Despite an injury-plagued career at West Virginia, outstanding performances in the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl caught the attention of the Chicago Bears, which selected him seventh overall in the 1958 draft.

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