R. Aubrey Fowler

Quarterback/Halfback/Kicker

Camp Murray "Arkansas Travelers"

A triple threat nightmare in the service league, "Slingshot" Fowler was enrolled at Arkansas Polytech Junior College and set single game punting records against Central Arkansas when he boomed 27 punts for 864 yards (32.0 average) during the 1939 season. 

Twenty-one members of the 1939 AIC Champion Arkansas Tech football team, Fowler included and all National Guardsmen, left for Washington state as members of the 206th Anti-Aircraft Coastal Gunners tasked with guarding the Boeing industrial plants.  These men housed at Camp Murray became known as the "Arkansas Travelers" and tore through the Puget Sound service teams.  Amassing 279 points and giving up only 6, Fowler, the 165-pounder was the leading scoring as well as the PAT kicker.  Set to challenge the Moffett Field Flyers of California for the West Coast title in Husky Stadium on Dec 13 in the "Khaki Bowl", the teams were notified just hours before kickoff in Seattle, that the military was canceling the game due to the attack on Pearl Harbor less than a week earlier.

Upon his discharge from the military, Fowler returned to Arkansas Tech where he earned All-Conference honors as a tailback and enrolled at the University of Arkansas for the 1946 season.  He made his way into Razorback record books there too for punt returns and longest runs.  Graduating in 1947, Fowler went on to play for the 1948 Baltimore Colts of the NFL after being drafted #162 by the Philadelphia Eagles as a 27-year old rookie.