Raymond Herbert “Whitey” Smith

After two sizzling years on the Salinas High varsity football team where Herbert “Whitey’’ Smith lead the Cowboys to a combined 16-1-1 record (1933-34), he earned a football scholarship to St. Mary’s of Moraga and was its starting fullback in 1937-38-39. He led the team in scoring all three years and scored the winning touchdown against Texas Tech in the 1939 Cotton Bowl and the winning score against rival Cal in 1939. Smith, a Gonzales native, was drafted into the NFL in 1939 by the Cleveland Rams. He was inducted into the Salinas High and St. Mary’s Hall of Fame, and was nicknamed “Pride of Salinas’’ by the Salinas newspaper, “Index-Journal,’’ in September of 1938.