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Former OU assistant Jim Dickey dies

Jim Dickey, who was on Chuck Fairbanks’ staff when the Sooners returned to football glory and who was head coach when Kansas State reached its first bowl game, died last weekend at age 83.

Dickey, the father of former North Texas head coach and former K-State quarterback Darrell Dickey, was a University of Houston quarterback in the 1950s.

Dickey went into coaching and was hired onto Phil Cutchin’s 1966 Oklahoma State staff. Dickey was with the Cowboys for four seasons, then was hired away by Fairbanks. To this day, only a handful of coaches – Johnny Barr, Darrell Wyatt, Bill Young, Bill Shimek, Bill Michael, Larry Coker, a few others – have coached on both sides of Bedlam.