[Husker] Former Sooner QB Jack Mildren Dies

[Bob Beach]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jon johnston" <jon.johnston at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Former Sooner QB Jack Mildren Dies


> When you go back and look at 1971 and where the two teams stood in
> terms of team strength it's amazing.
>
> 58 years old. Man, my father passed away in 1974 of cancer at 54.
> That's really young.




     Yeah, it really gets scary.  My Father in Law died in 1978 at the age 
of 58 and I am 58 right now.  I was 21 years old and a junior in college in 
1971.  It just seems like yesterday that Mildren played.  He was a great QB 
for that team at that time.  Even though we had many knock em down drag em 
out battles with OU I never got to a place where I disliked them.  I wanted 
to beat them, absolutely, but never disliked them.  There is one foe none of 
us can beat and that is age and ultimately death.  It, unfortunately happens 
younger to some than others.  May God rest his soul.


Bob Beach