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==Background==

==Background==

The older of two sons of [[W. W. Williams, Sr.]], and the former Irene Botkins (1921-2015), a native of [[Kentucky]] known as "Mama Rene", Williams was born in Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish while his father was an educator in Shongaloo in Webster Parish,  located ten miles from Haynesville. The family relocated to Minden in 1950. He graduated in 1965 from Minden High School, at which he was a class officer and played All-District in [[basketball]] [[baseball]], ran track, and played football on the state champion 1963 Minden Crimson Tide team.  Williams resided in Minden for nearly all of his life except for his four years at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and played [[football]], part of this time as a blocker for Terry Bradshaw, who went on to quarterback four [[Super Bowl]] triumphs for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]. He attended Louisiana Tech on an athletic scholarship to play football. He earned letters as  an offensive tackle from 1966 to 1969 and was named to the All Gulf-States Conference team in 1969. He played in the first two post-season games in which Louisiana Tech participated, the Grantland Rice Bowl in 1968 in Murfreesboro, [[Tennessee], and in 1969 in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=dspecht/>

The older of two sons of [[W. W. Williams, Sr.]], and the former Irene Botkins (1921-2015), a native of [[Kentucky]] known as "Mama Rene", Williams was born in Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish while his father was an educator in Shongaloo in Webster Parish,  located ten miles from Haynesville. The family relocated to Minden in 1950. He graduated in 1965 from Minden High School, at which he was a class officer and played All-District in [[basketball]] [[baseball]], ran track, and played football on the state champion 1963 Minden Crimson Tide team.  Williams resided in Minden for nearly all of his life except for his four years at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and played [[football]], part of this time as a blocker for Terry Bradshaw, who went on to quarterback four [[Super Bowl]] triumphs for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]. He attended Louisiana Tech on an athletic scholarship to play football. He earned letters as  an offensive tackle from 1966 to 1969 and was named to the All Gulf-States Conference team in 1969. He played in the first two post-season games in which Louisiana Tech participated, the Grantland Rice Bowl in 1968 in Murfreesboro, [[Tennessee]], and in 1969 in [[Baton Rouge]].<ref name=dspecht/>

==Career==

==Career==