Carroll High School
Athletic Hall of Fame

‘Larry’ Butler was a starting pitcher for 3-years with an overall 25-7 (.781) record for the Tigers baseball team when the team won Region (’62) and Bi-District (’63) Championships. He was a halfback on the (’63) football team. Larry played scholarship baseball at Pan American Univ. for 1-year. He served 4-years in the US Air Force, including two combat tours in the Vietnam War as a crew chief on F-105 jet fighters, and he flew 30-combat missions. He worked at NASA for 8-years maintaining jet aircraft flown by the Astronauts. He then worked 8-years in Saudi Arabia for Northrop’s maintenance team for Saudi jet fighter aircraft. Larry owned an auto parts store and he is a licensed fishing guide. He lives in Mathis, TX.

Coach Riggins was head baseball coach from ’66-’74. He was also sophomore football coach and biology teacher. In his 8 years as head baseball coach, his teams placed 3rd one time, 2nd two times, and won the district title five times. His ’72 team ended the year with a 27-5 record and played in the state tournament in Austin, TX. His combined record stands at 191 wins and 73 losses for a winning percentage of 72.3%. In his early years of coaching Little League baseball, he took one of his teams to the national tournament. His greatest joy was not winning but coaching the wonderful student/athletes he was privileged to meet. He was gifted athlete and was a 4-year letterman in baseball, football, basketball, and track at Tuloso Midway and Calallen high schools. After returning home from the Navy during the Korean War he finished his education at Texas A & I in Kingsville, TX. He passed away at the age of 52 in 1979 and is greatly missed by his family and friends.