Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983 Page: 3
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Clement:afternoon. Who was the commentator? Oh, he was good. I
don't even know who he was, but he brought the game of the
week for Humble every Saturday afternoon. I can still remem-
ber when Bob Smith of Texas A&M, you know, scored four or
five touchdowns, and so I just had to be one of them. So
I decided I'd be one without ever seeing the game.
Did you play any other sports while growing up as a youth?
I played basketball for two years, and our work schedule at
the farm didn't coincide with basketball that much, so I
dropped out of basketball. I ran some track. But, you know,
we were twelve to fifteen miles from town and had no vehicle
and with a daddy that hates athletics and especially hates
football, so it limits what you can do. I was severely
limited by parental attitude toward football.
Describe what life was like on the farm during that period.
Oh, we baled hay. I can still remember baling it where we
didn't have a tractor. We had the horses that cut it, and
we raked with horses. We didn't have the automatic balers.
I'll tell you...do you want to hear one farm story?
Sure.
I'll tell you one farm story. We had an ol' boy that lived
probably five or six miles from us, and he'd always walk over
to our house every day in the sumner to go to work. He wasn't
real bright. As I say when I'm talking to kids in class now,
he was about "as smart as the average football coach." Any-
way, ol' Herb didn't get a full deck to play with. So we've
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Clement, Raymond. Oral History Interview with Raymond Clement, July 6, 1983, book, July 6, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223649/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.