Leaning on a Legacy Oklahoma “Don’t never be afraid of

“Don’t never be afraid of your horses

and as head freshman football coach

For fifty-five years

Sprinkled with Larsen’s wit and wisdom

sense of humor

Leaning on a Legacy Oklahoma “Don’t never be afraid ofThe Great Depression took its toll on the pocketbooks and emotions of Oklahomans who lost their jobs as banks failed, businesses closed, and farm markets collapsed in the 1930s. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest of Roosevelt s New Deal programs designed to bring America back to good economic health. After 1939 the agency was known as the Work Projects Administration. The