Cooksey-Johns Memorial Stadium

LSU had promised to give Danny Johns a scholarship if highly recruited Linebacker Ricky Cooksey would accept a scholarship to LSU.

The Football Stadium and Track at Jonesboro High School - Cooksey-Johns Stadium - brought about by the great people of Jonesboro to honor two of their classmates;my brother Ricky and his best friend Danny Johns. Cooksey-Johns Memorial Stadium is named after two seniors in the JHS Class of 1970, Ricky Cooksey and Danny Johns; who were killed in a head on collision with a tractor trailer rig at Payn  ...