Matt Chaney, the author of Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, has just posted a new article about steroid use in American football with updated and new information about the earliest use of AAS in the sport, including a small high school team in Texas:
At time of my book [in 2009], Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, Bob Waters was the earliest known user of AAS in American football. But not anymore. Today’s e-search of newspapers reveals [Norman] Beal at Mizzou along with likely juicer Jim Otto of the Raiders, in 1960, and the steroid program of Ray High School football, Corpus Christi, Tex.
The Beginning: Anabolic Steroids Invade American Football (First in a Series)
Matt Chaney's review of newly recovered newspaper evidence reveals a widespread national awareness of anabolic substances in American football as early as the late 1950s.
thinksteroids.com