Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Warren Lale Blizzard
BLIZZARD, WARREN LALE (1888–1954), inducted 1939
Warren Blizzard, born in McPherson, Kansas, attended Kansas State University and began his career as an animal husbandry assistant there. In 1915, he joined the Animal Husbandry Department at Oklahoma A&M College, becoming department head in 1919. When he moved to Oklahoma, the state was new to the union, and its livestock industry was just beginning. With an uncanny ability to select herd sires, Blizzard helped propel Oklahoma to one of the top livestock states in the nation in just two decades. He coached the first two Oklahoma A&M national championship livestock teams in 1925 and 1928. Warren Blizzard was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1958.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 49