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Sid Halliday, Mustangs 1947 Captain of Doak Walker team to be inducted May 1, 2004 in Waco Texas at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Here is the bio on Sid,
Sid Halliday
Woodrow Wilson High School 1938-1939
Coach – Wade Thompson
Height – 5’11” Weight – 155lb. Position – End
Halliday was an All-City end who helped lead the Woodrow Wilson Wildcats to the district championship in 1939. The Wildcats defeated Masonic Home and Sulphur Springs in the playoffs before losing to eventual state champion Lubbock in the semi-finals. Halliday scored the first touchdown pass ever at Dal-Hi Stadium (later P.C. Cobb) in Dallas. At Schreiner University he made all-conference in football and basketball before transferring to SMU in 1942. During World War II he made the All-Marine Football Team while in the V-12 program at Arkansas A&M in 1943 and 1944. He returned to SMU for the 1946 and 1947 seasons and was team captain on the Mustangs’ 1947 SWC championship team. Halliday made the All SWC team and was also selected to play in the 1947 Chicago Tribune College All-Star Game. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in 1945 but pursued a career in sporting goods working for The H.B. “Doc” Hughes Company until his death in 1964.

Sid Halliday graduate of Bishop Lynch in 2002, grandson of Sid Halliday ponies 1947 football captain will be attending the University of Arkansas @ Monticello and playing football as a kicker. Sid was recently an All State Soccer player on the TAPPS 5A Champions Bishop LYnch Friars. He played soccer his freshman college season at The University of the Ozarks in Arkansas. Switching to football and kicker for his grandfathers old alma mater would make many of tose '47 Mustangs smile. Good Luck Sid. Like former pony Daniel Hernandez, Sid can kick them either right or left footed. He also hold a soccer grade school area record of 258 career goals for his Parochial League.

As a boy in San Antonio, I followed the 1947 SMU team. Here's to the greatest generation, in war and peace, and on the grid iron.

Wow! Wouldn't it be something if we were to get Sid Halliday's grandson on the same SMU football team with Doak Walker's grandson (Ryan Wolcott)? And they'd BOTH be kickers!!!!!

a 155 pound end? wow, times have changed

davidsmu94 wrote:a 155 pound end? wow, times have changed

True. But Sid and those other Mustangs of the late 40s were seasoned WWII vets and they'd kick anyone's a** that got in their way! Truly, they were "The Greatest Generation"!!!!!!!

Thanks for the words about those "47 Mustangs. And although Sid will be going to the University of Arkansas @ Monticello this year I am hoping Coach Bennett will contact me about next year. And yes that would be neat seeing Ryan and Sid together in 2005. Couldn't you picture Sid and Doak looking down from heaven smiling about their grandsons? By the time Sid went to SMU he had beefed up to 195lbs playing both offensive and defensive end. 155lbs was from his skinny high school years where another former Mustang Red Maley was Woordrow's Quarterback.

Got any photos of Sid or the old days that you might be able to share with us?