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Longtime college coach Kendall dies

By Staff Reports
Published: 8/29/2008 2:10 AM
Last Modified: 8/29/2008 2:15 AM

BROKEN ARROW — Leland Kendall, an All-Missouri Valley tackle at Oklahoma A&M and a longtime college football coach, died Wednesday in a Tulsa nursing home. He was 75.

Kendall played for the Cowboys for three years, earning all-conference honors in 1954. He was named to play in the 1954 Blue-Gray game.

After college, Kendall was selected by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round of the 1955 NFL Draft.

He served as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State in 1962 before moving to the coaching staff at the Air Force Academy, where he served for 15 years. He was the Falcons' defensive coordinator in 1976-77.

Kendall also coached at Garden City Community College in Kansas, the University of Idaho and in the Canadian Football League, according to his wife, Wanda Kendall. He worked as a scout for Tampa Bay and Arizona in the NFL.

Kendall's family has lived in Broken Arrow for 12 years, his wife said.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, Heath, 23, who is a graduate student at Oklahoma State; and a sister, Kay Brown of Joplin, Mo.

Services are pending with Midtown Tulsa Funeral Home.From staff reports

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