Fans of Baylor Football will certainly remember four-year letterwinner Ervin Randle, who played both linebacker and defensive end for Coach Grant Teaff from 1981-84. Inducted into the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012, Randle earned first-team All-Southwest Conference honors as a junior and senior at Baylor, and was an All-American Honorable Mention selection by Football News in 1983.  A member of Baylor’s 1980s All-Decade team, he racked up 294 career tackles (115 solo) and 25 tackles for loss, and he led the Bears to the 1983 Bluebonnet Bowl. Following his senior season, Randle was selected to play in two of the nation’s premier college football all-star games, the 1984 East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic.

Selected as the 64th overall selection in the 1985 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Randle enjoyed an eight-year pro career. The Hearne, Texas native played for the Buccaneers from 1985 to 1990, then spent his final two professional seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs (1991-92).

After retiring from football, Randle wanted to pursue a different path and began selling cars at a Chevrolet dealership in 1995. After twenty years of working his way up through the industry, he was able to purchase Classic Lawton Chevrolet in Lawton, Oklahoma in 2015. Once he arrived in Lawton, Randle began approaching leaders in the community to ask what he could do to help them. He had made a commitment to be a part of that community and help it grow, starting with its youngest members. In 2015 and 2016, Classic Lawton Chevrolet organized the annual Operation Santa Claus event where organizers collected hundreds of bicycles and delivered them to schools and organizations where principals, counselors, and community leaders identified the children most in need. Some of the other groups in the area that have benefited from Randle’s fundraisers include elementary students, the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest Oklahoma, the Comanche County Memorial Hospital Foundation, and the Lawton Food Bank.

On January 28, the Baylor Line Foundation presented Ervin Randle with the Abner V. McCall Humanitarian Award for his contributions to the community of Lawton, Oklahoma. The Abner V. McCall Humanitarian Award recognizes alumni who have exhibited a Christian response to situations and people around them in ways exemplified by the life of former Baylor President Abner V. McCall.

Join us in congratulating Ervin Randle as the 2017 recipient of the Abner V. McCall Humanitarian Award. We are proud to have him as a member of our letterwinner family.

Sic ’em Ervin!

Lawton Man to Receive Humanitarian Award