Former Nt Player Passes Away

Baby Arm! · January 7, 2008

Neal Wilson played football at North Texas and got both his batchelors and masters there.

I played for Coach Wilson's last team at Lewisville. He was a great coach and a better person. He will be missed.

Huff · January 7, 2008

A bunch of us thought he was crazy when he left Boswell High School to go to Lewisville. The Farmers had not won many games before he got there but boy did he change that. I would agree that he was an outstanding coach and a really fine person. The world is a poorer place because he is no longer here.

SilverEagle · January 7, 2008

In the fall of 66, I was standing at the small hill overlooking Eagle Stadium in Decatur watching the team practice. An older gentleman walked up beside me and started talking about the team and it's prospects for that season. After I gave my assessment (unbiased of course), the gentleman said "Well, that's by boy Neal down there. He just started coaching here". Neal's father had just driven down from Era to watch his son in his first High School coaching gig.

Neal Wilson was an assistant coach under Bill Davis at Decatur in the 66 and 67 seasons. He was hired as Head Coach for the 68 season and stayed in that position until 71 or 72, when he then moved to Boswell. From Boswell he went on to Lewisville.

In my humble opinion, his best coaching took place in the 68 season at Decatur. Decatur had just graduated four all-state and numerous all-district players from the previous season. Coach Wilson cobbled together a group of players that included some promising players from the previous years freshman team, and JV team, as was as a senior nose tackle (who ended up being all-district) who, up to that point, had never played football while in High School. That year, Decatur scraped together a district championship (when they should have ended up in third place) and went to the play-offs where they barely lost to San Saba in bi-district. To me, that's real coaching.

Ronnie Gage was one of the players that eventually played for Neal Wilson at Decatur. Gary Prescott (assistant at Lewisville and head coach at Northwest and Decatur) also played under Coach Wilson when he was still an assistant at Decatur.

Varsity · January 7, 2008

R.I.P. Neal Wilson.

ParksAndRecRick · January 8, 2008

mUCH OF THE SUCCESS OF LEWISVILLE ISD IN FOOTBALL CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO COACH WILSON. HE BROUGHT THE FARMERS TO PROMINENCE THAN MANY OF HIS ASSISTANTS CARRIED THE TORCH THROUGH-OUT THE DISTRICT. HAD A CHANCE TO KNOW COACH FROM MY DAYS LIVING IN LEWISVILLE.