Ben Hart
1967 NFL Draft: Round 3 Pick 80
Receiving
| Season | Rec | Yards | TD | Long | Y/R | 100Y | 200Y | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | SO | 14 | 400 | 5 | 95 | 28.6 | 0 | |
| 1965 | JR | 12 | 115 | 0 | 9.6 | 0 | ||
| 1966 | SR | 33 | 565 | 2 | 17.1 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 59 | 1,080 | 7 | 95 | 18.3 | 0 | 0 | |
* Some/all stats have not been updated with bowl stats or validated that they already are bowl-inclusive.
Roster Info
| Season | Class | # | Pos | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | SO | 37 | HB | 6-2 | 201 |
| 1965 | JR | 37 | RH | 6-2 | 202 |
| 1966 | SR | 88 | E | 6-2 | 203 |
Personal Info
| First Name: | Benjamin |
| Middle Name: | Franklin |
| Last Name: | Hart, II |
| Common Name: | Ben |
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| Hometown: | Oklahoma City, OK |
| High School: | Douglass |
| Birth Date/Place: | August 19, 1945 |
| Death Date/Place: | August 27, 2004 in Garden City, KS (age 59) |
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| Obituary: |
Services for Ben Hart, former Douglass High School and University of Oklahoma athlete, will take place at 2 p.m. Thursday at Fairview Baptist Church, 721 N Rhode Island.
Hart, 59, died last Friday in Garden City, Kan., where he was a public school administrator. Hart played football at OU and lettered as a receiver in 1964, 1965 and 1966. He led the Sooners with 565 yards on 33 catches in 1966.
He was high school back of the year at Douglass in 1962, scoring 20 touchdowns and passing for six more. He was also all-state in basketball as a senior in 1963, averaging 21.3 points a game. He was all-city in basketball as a junior and senior.
Hart coached basketball at Grandfield in 1979-80, then was football coach at Northeast High School in 1980 and 1981.
"He was the most dominant football player I've seen in Oklahoma," said former Douglass coach Stanford White, a high school classmate of Hart's. "He had unbelievable talent. He was a state champion shot putter. He was like a man playing with boys."
Notes
- A (C) indicates that the player was a captain for that season (named before each game in 1982, 1995 through 1998, and 2022 to present).
- Related To refers to other OU athletes only.
- Calculations for career totals will be skewed if the season totals are incomplete.