Horace Ivory
| YEAR INDUCTED: | 2023 |
| SPORT(S): | Football |
| YEARS PLAYED: | 1972-1973 |
Horace Ivory
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Ivory led the 1973 Navarro College Football team with an 10-1 record, completed the 1973 season as Conference Champions and a victory in the Wool Bowl.
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Won National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Championships at Oklahoma in 1974 and 1975.
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Ivory was the 2nd round National Football League (NFL) Draft pick for the New England Patriots.
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Named All-Pro in 1980 during a seven-year NFL career.
Ivory starred on first-year Head Coach Harold Hern’s Texas Junior College Football Conference co-champions (10-1) in 1973 and fashioned Navarro bowl-record performances in a 17-0 Wool Bowl victory over Fort Scott, KS. He transferred to the University of Oklahoma, joining three other Bulldogs, Keith Thomas, Billy Brooks (Senior Receiver) and Reggie Mathis (Sophomore Linebacker) on the Sooners’ 1974 and 1975 NCAA Championship squads.
Ivory, a product of Fort Worth Nolan Catholic High School, ran 18 times for 102 yards in the game at Roswell, NM. At Oklahoma, Ivory averaged 6.5 yards per carry and piled up two-year rushing marks of 213-1390-11 on his way to the NFL in 1977 as a second-round draft choice of the New England Patriots. Ivory was named All-Pro in 1980, rushed 351-1425-15 and caught 54-471-2 during a seven-year career with the Pars and the Seattle Seahawks.
