Like the peaks and valleys that permeate Picher, Oklahoma's land ... For the former Picher resident, football is an escape from an enigma. Jack and his son survived the Picher tornado, but ...

He became a football All-American and national champ at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M ... Whatever happened to the most famous athlete Picher High School will ever produce? Applications are closed.

Sammy Freeman would run over you in a heartbeat.” Picher became the first school from Northeast Oklahoma to win a football state championship in 1984 when the Eagles edged Fox 23-21 at Bristow ...

Picher, Oklahoma, is emblematic of what happens when ... The landscape shows the remnants of rowdy high school football games silenced and lifelong residents uprooted through no fault of their ...