Jesuit Dallas Athletics

Rob Floyd played three years of football, captained the track team for two of his three years as a member of the varsity, and was voted Best Athlete at Jesuit his senior year.

As a sophomore, Floyd ran the first leg of the state record-setting 440-relay team. He also set the School record in the pole vault, as the Rangers won the 1964 TCIL Track & Field Championship. Knee surgery interrupted his junior football season, but in the spring, Floyd won the 100 and 220-yard dashes in multiple meets and anchored the 440y relay to victory at the 1965 state championships.

In 1965, the football team set two new records: 550 yards of offense in the game against Galveston, and with Floyd at quarterback, rushing for a record 325 yards from scrimmage. He set the Jesuit record for most pass completions in a game against Waco, and was voted to eight post-season teams including All-State and All-American.

Hayden Fry signed Floyd to a four-year football scholarship to SMU. The National Football Foundation presented Floyd the Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1966. He played four years for the Mustangs, including the Bluebonnet Bowl victory against Oklahoma in 1968 and a great battle earlier that year against national champions, Ohio State.