Jerry Spann

[1] His team won the 1932 Rose Bowl game against Tulane University when Spann assisted Pinckert with blocks that allowed USC to pull off a pair of double reverses that produced touchdown runs.

[1] Spann's successful promotion of the 1956 U.S. Open Chess Championship, held in downtown Oklahoma City,[4] led to his appointment as chairman of the USCF Presidency Nominating Committee.

When ten of the eleven people nominated withdrew, Spann—as the stand-alone remaining nominee—was elected as the president of the USCF in 1957, a post he held until 1960.

While at the helm as the USCF president, Spann managed to bring financial solvency back to the struggling chess organization.

[1] The late Oklahoma chess organizer and player, Frank K. Berry, said of Spann: "All Oklahomans, Americans and people around the world who met him and played in his tournaments will never forget how generous, friendly, encouraging and kind he was."