Clyde Glosson​

Clyde Glosson was a record-setting nationally-ranked sprinter and one of San Antonio’s premier track athletes. The track speed and football skills he developed at Phillis Wheatley High School would eventually lead him into the National Football League.​

​At age 15 he set a national Junior Olympic record of 9.6 in the 100-yard dash. In 1964 he helped the Wheatley 440-yard relay team set a national high school record of 41.5 seconds and that relay also was the PVIL state champion. Individually he set a national record of 20.6 seconds in the 220-yard dash. From 1963 through 1965 he won three state titles in the 220-yd dash and two titles in the 100. The Lions won the 1965 state track and field championship. Glosson then ran at Trinity University where he won the NCAA Division II 100 and 200-meter dash titles. In 1968 he was the fifth ranked 100-meter sprinter in the world and was an alternate for the 1968 US Olympic Team. His career bests were: 100m—10.1, 100yd—9.2, 200yd—20.6 and 200m—20.1, which was a national collegiate record.​

In 1970 he was drafted by the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. He played for the Buffalo Bills from 1970 through 1972 finished his professional football career with the Detroit Wheels in the World Football League in 1974. He has been inducted into the Prairie View Interscholastic League Hall of Fame and Border Olympics Track and Field Hall of Fame.​