Wilson "Bull" Elkins
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Dr. Wilson Elkins excelled in high school and college sports. He became an all-around athlete at Brackenridge High School in San Antonio and played on its state championship basketball team in 1926. He continued participating in three sports at Schreiner Institute before attending the University of Texas in 1928. He earned eight letters at Texas by quarterbacking the 1930 championship football team, captaining the 1932 basketball team, and lettering twice in track and field. Elkins still found time to graduate with two degrees and become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He was later president at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Maryland. Elkins was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1963.