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Broken Arrow High School Athletics
Bill Lemon
Most of the football teams coached by H.K. Ragsdale and Joe Robinson in the 1940s and
1950s took pride in being able to win games by running the football. When Bill Lemon came
along, however, his passing skills were simply too good to pass up.
Lemon was a man of letters at Broken Arrow High School. He graduated in 1955 with 10 of
them – four in baseball, and three each in basketball and football. He earned All-
Conference honors in football and was Honorable Mention All-State as a senior, when he
completed 50 percent of his passes for the last BA team which finished a season unbeaten.
In the final game of that 10-0-1 season he threw four TD passes to end Jack Brooks in a 36-
35 victory over Bixby.
Lemon was All-Conference in basketball as a senior, and served as Class President that
year as well. He is a Past Master Counselor in the Order of DeMolay and a 1959 graduate
of Northeastern State University. He retired as Supervisor Postal Operations from the U.S.
Postal Service in Broken Arrow and also served six years in the Oklahoma Army National
Guard, where he was a Squad Leader during AIT at Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
An avid golfer and fisherman, Lemon and his wife Linda Lea have been married for 47
years. Their daughter Jodie Lea Owens teaches at Country Lane Elementary School in
Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow High School is proud to induct Bill Lemon into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
Most of the football teams coached by H.K. Ragsdale and Joe Robinson in the 1940s and
1950s took pride in being able to win games by running the football. When Bill Lemon came
along, however, his passing skills were simply too good to pass up.
Lemon was a man of letters at Broken Arrow High School. He graduated in 1955 with 10 of
them – four in baseball, and three each in basketball and football. He earned All-
Conference honors in football and was Honorable Mention All-State as a senior, when he
completed 50 percent of his passes for the last BA team which finished a season unbeaten.
In the final game of that 10-0-1 season he threw four TD passes to end Jack Brooks in a 36-
35 victory over Bixby.
Lemon was All-Conference in basketball as a senior, and served as Class President that
year as well. He is a Past Master Counselor in the Order of DeMolay and a 1959 graduate
of Northeastern State University. He retired as Supervisor Postal Operations from the U.S.
Postal Service in Broken Arrow and also served six years in the Oklahoma Army National
Guard, where he was a Squad Leader during AIT at Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
An avid golfer and fisherman, Lemon and his wife Linda Lea have been married for 47
years. Their daughter Jodie Lea Owens teaches at Country Lane Elementary School in
Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow High School is proud to induct Bill Lemon into its Athletic Hall of Fame.
