Southern Arkansas University Athletics

Donald Crews played football and participated in track and field from 1947-51 at what was then Magnolia A&M Junior College (now Southern Arkansas University).  A native of DeQueen, he made an immediate impact in his first game as a Mulerider against Henderson State, scoring a touchdown the first time he touched the football on a 65-yard pass interception return.
           
Crews played wingback in Coach Elmer Smith’s Winged T, rarely touching the ball except on reverses, but still scored, however, and often.  When the Muleriders breezed to the 1951 AIC championship (7-0, 9-1 overall), he scored 14 touchdowns in 10 games, scoring 84 points.

The 14 touchdowns stood as a school season record for 26 years, and they, and the points scored still rank as the fourth most in school history.  Crews was a unanimous All-AIC selection that season.
           
Crews was also a four-year letterman in track and field.  He ran the first sub-10 flat in this area of the country with a 9.9 time in the 100-yard dash in a meet at Louisiana Tech.  After Crews’ collegiate career, he was a highly successful high school coach at Hamburg and other state schools until his retirement in 1987.  While at Hamburg in 1963, he was named the Outstanding High School Football Coach by the Arkansas Athletic Association.