New Mexico State University Athletics

All-Border Conference forward in men's basketball and All-Border Conference end in football...Older brother and teammate of multi-term New Mexico governor and federal judge Ed Mechem...NM State ROTC officer and LTC who led a battalion of the 382nd Regiment of the 96th Infantry Division...Killed in combat during the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines in October of 1944...Posthumously awarded the Silver Star.