Zac Henderson, one of the most underrated OU football players of all time, died overnight Sunday/Monday at his home in Oklahoma City. He was 64.
Henderson was a four-year starter at free safety and a 1977 unanimous all-American. The New York Athletic Club named Henderson college football’s defensive back of the year in ’77, in those days before the Jim Thorpe Award. Henderson had seven interceptions that season.
Henderson, out of Burkburnett, Texas, started all but the season opener as a true freshman on OU’s undefeated, 1974 national championship team, a defense that included Lee Roy Selmon, Dewey Selmon, Jimbo Elrod, Rod Shoate, Tony Peters and Randy Hughes.