Speegle II, C. B.

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Updated: 17 Jan 2012

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 23, 2008

Former high school coach C.B. Speegle II dies

C.B. Speegle II, who coached Capitol Hill High School to two state football championships and for whom the Redskins' stadium is named, died Tuesday. He was 92.
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Speegle spent 35 years at Capitol Hill, including 22 as head football coach. His most lasting legacy was the 1955 Capitol Hill-Douglass game, the first integrated game in Oklahoma.

Speegle and Douglass coach Moses Miller arranged the game without administration approval, and the game went off without a hitch. Capitol Hill won a 13-6 classic that still is talked about for the quality of the play and the sportsmanship.

"He was a great man and he was a good coach," said Charlie Murdock, who coached six seasons for Speegle and later became athletic director at Central State University.

"Great guy. Did a lot for boys. He was interested in kids. If a kid got in trouble, he didn't just run him off. He tried to help 'em, get 'em straightend out."

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Southern Hills Baptist Church, 8601 S Pennsylvania Avenue. Burial will be at Resthaven Cemetery.

Speegle attended Capitol Hill in the 1930s. After graduating from Central State University, Speegle coached a year at Konawa and Cushing, then returned to Capitol Hill, where except for a three-year military stint during World War II, he stayed from 1941 until his retirement in 1978.

Speegle's brother, Cliff, was head football coach at Oklahoma State from 1955-62,

C.B. Speegle was head coach at Capitol Hill from 1951-69 and 1972-74. His overall record was 113-97-11. The Redskins won state championships in 1957 and 1958.

Speegle also coached basketball and golf; one of his golfers was Orville Moody, who went on to win the 1969 U.S. Open.

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