Bob Barry Sr. to receive national award for his career as a broadcaster
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Bob Barry Sr., the longtime radio voice of OU football, died Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. He was 80.
Former OU football announcer Bob Barry Sr., who died last year, will be recognized with a national broadcasting award from the National Football Foundation in December.
Barry will receive the foundation's Chris Schenkel Award, which recognizes a sports broadcaster who has enjoyed a long and distinguished career broadcasting college football with direct ties to a specific university, according to a press release. The award will be presented at the foundation's award dinner Dec. 4 in New York City.
Barry became the play-by-play announcer for OU in 1961, a job he held until 1972. He then spent one year calling games for Tulsa during the 1973-74 season.
He followed that up with a 17-year stint at Oklahoma State until 1990 when he returned to OU to serve as the football and basketball announcer until his retirement in 2010.
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