Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
Established | 1980 |
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Type | Hall of Fame |
Director | Mike Rose |
Website | www.oregonsportshall.org |
The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame honors Oregon athletes, teams, coaches, and others who have made a significant contribution to sports in Oregon. The first class was inducted in 1980, with new inductees added in the fall. Operated by the Oregon Sports Trust, the museum is currently closed in preparation for moving to another facility.
History and organization[]
The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame inducted its first class of 54 members in 1980, a diverse group that included Olympians Mack Robinson, Don Schollander and Frank Troeh, Boston Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky, NFL hero Norm van Brocklin, Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker, high jump innovator Dick Fosbury, and basketball coaching legend Slats Gill.
New members are inducted each fall, in a ceremony held in recent years at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon.
Scholarships[]
As part of its educational mission to promote the values and rewards of participation in sports, the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame grants as many as nine $2,000 scholarships given to outstanding Oregon student athletes who will be attending Oregon colleges. Scholarship winners are honored during the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Facility[]
From 1986 to 1997, the museum was located in a 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) basement under the Standard Insurance Center in downtown Portland, Oregon.[1] In 1997, the museum moved to a nearby facility featuring 7,000 square feet (700 m2) of space with hands-on exhibits, videos, and memorabilia, such as Terry Baker's Heisman trophy (the first Heisman given to a West Coast athlete), Mack Robinson's Olympic jersey, one of Dale Murphy's Golden Gloves, and Bill Walton's jersey from the 1977 Portland Trail Blazers NBA championship game.
In mid-2008, StanCorp evicted the museum in order to expand their own office space. The museum is closed in preparation for moving to an as-yet determined location.[2][3]
Inductees[]
The current members of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame are listed below.
Individuals[]
Sport | Hall of Fame members |
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Adaptive Sports | |
Auto Racing | Hershel McGriff, Monte Shelton, Len Sutton |
Baseball | Earl Averill, Jr., Wally Backman, Eddie Basinski, , Carson "Skeet" Bigbee, Scott Brosius, Bobby Doerr, Howard Fox, Johnny Frederick, George Freese, Joe Gordon, , John Jaha, Larry Jansen, Sylvester Johnson, Ad Liska, Mickey Lolich, Walter McCredie, Dale Murphy, Johnny Pesky, Harold Reynolds, Dave Roberts, Wes Schulmerich, Tom Trebelhorn, Wayne Twitchell, Pete Ward, Dick Whitman, Ken Williams, , Artie Wilson, Jack Wilson, Rick Wise |
Basketball | Danny Ainge, Bobby Anet, Greg Ballard, Jim Barnett, Lew Beck, Ray Blume, , Terrell Brandon, Mel Counts, , John Dick, Clyde Drexler, Eddie Durno, Lauren "Laddie" Gale, Dave Gambee, , A. C. Green, Jim Jarvis, Wally Johansen, Steve Johnson, Steve Jones, Jerome Kersey, , Ron Lee, , Jim Loscutoff, Maurice Lucas, John Mandic, , Jim Paxson, Gary Payton, Geoff Petrie, Terry Porter, Mark Radford, , Ephraim "Red" Rocha, Carol Menken-Schaudt, Charlie Sitton, Katy Steding, Damon Stoudamire, Dave Twardzik, Bill Walton, , Richard Washington, , Urgel "Slim" Wintermute, Lindsey Yamasaki |
Bowling | , Marshall Holman, Dave Husted, |
Boxing | , , , Denny Moyer, Tom Moyer |
Broadcasting | Bob Blackburn, , Bill Schonely |
Coaching | , Pokey Allen, Dee Andros, , Mike Bellotti, Bill Bowerman, Rich Brooks, Prink Callison, Len Casanova, Ralph Coleman, Mouse Davis, Tom DeSylvia, , , Paul Durham, , Amory "Slats" Gill, , , Bill Hayward, Howard Hobson, Joe Huston, Eldon Jenne, Roy S. "Spec" Keene, Don Kirsch, , Hal Laycoe, , , Bobb McKittrick, Ralph Miller, Tommy Prothro, , Jack Ramsay, , , Ad Rutschman, , , Lon Stiner, Dewey Sullivan, , Dale O. Thomas, , Paul Valenti, , John Warren, |
Duathlon | |
Equestrian | Rich Fellers, Kevin Freeman |
Fencing | Michael Marx |
Football | Bill Austin, Sam Baker, Terry Baker, Emery Barnes, Steve Barnett, Ted Bates, John Beckett, Bob Berry, Del Bjork, Pete Brock, Stan Brock, Paul Brothers, Vern Burke, Jules "Zuck" Carlson, Ken Carpenter, Ross Carter, Todd Christensen, George Christensen, Jack Crabtree, Jim Dixon, Don Durdan, Brad Ecklund, Bill "Earthquake" Enyart, Dan Fouts, Joe Francis, Russ Francis, Norman "Red" Franklin, Rockne Freitas, Dave Grayson, Bobby Grayson, Quentin Greenough, Bob Grim, Joey Harrington, Mike Hass, Chas "Shy" Huntington, Steven Jackson, Dick James, Johnny Kitzmiller, Jake Leicht, Woodley Lewis, Percy Locey, Neil Lomax, Howard Maple, Bill McKalip, Mike Mikulak, Chris Miller, Hal Moe, Bill Morgan, Raymond "Butch" Morse, Jack "Mad Dog" O'Billovich, Jack Patera, Pete Pifer, George A. "Gap" Powell, Steve Preece, Ahmad Rashād, Mel Renfro, , Ade "Tar" Schwammel, Vic Sears, Jim Shanley, George Shaw, Ken Simonton, Bill Steers, Aaron Thomas, Norman Van Brocklin, Dave Wilcox, John Witte, Len Younce, Gary Zimmerman |
Golf | , , , Bob Duden, Chandler Egan, Bob Gilder, Brian Henninger, Marian Herron, Peter Jacobsen, , , Oscar Willing, Dick Yost, Grace DeMoss Zwahlen |
Gymnastics | , , Joy Selig Petersen |
Handball | , , |
Hockey | Andy Aitkenhead, Don Head, Art Jones |
Martial Arts | |
Masters Athlete | , , , |
Multi Sport Athlete | Craig Hanneman, , , Elmer Kolberg, Mel Krause, Danny Miles, , |
Officiating | , , Jim Joyce, |
Rodeo | Larry Mahan |
Skiing | Gretchen Fraser, Hjalmar Hvam, Bill Johnson, Jean Saubert |
Soccer | Clive Charles, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett |
Softball | Margaret Dobson, , , , , |
Swimming and Diving | Jack Cody, Brenda Helser, Louis "Hap" Kuehn, Nancy Merki Lees, Kim Peyton McDonald, Maureen Murphy, Thelma Payne, Norman Ross, Don Schollander, Della Sehorn, Carolyn Wood, Suzanne Zimmerman |
Table Tennis | |
Tennis | Sam Lee, , , Jonathan Stark |
Track and Field | Margaret Johnson Bailes, Jim Bailey, Percy Bell, Wade Bell, Kelly Blair LaBounty, Dyrol Burleson, Rudy Chapa, Otis Davis, Lance Deal, Bill Dellinger, Ashton Eaton, Dick Fosbury, Alfred "A.C." Gilbert, Jim Grelle, Morgan Groth, Martin Hawkins, Ralph Hill, Joni Huntley, Harry Jerome, Dave Johnson, Dan Kelly, H. W. Kerrigan, , Kenny Moore, Dan O'Brien, Steve Prefontaine, Mack Robinson, Alberto Salazar, Mary Slaney, Forrest Smithson, Les Steers, , , Jerry Tarr, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, George Varoff, , Mac Wilkins |
Trap Shooting | Frank Troeh |
Volleyball | |
Wrestling | Ron Finley, Les Gutches, Jess Lewis, Chester Newton, Robin Reed, Rick Sanders, Greg Strobel |
Schonely Lifetime Achievement Award | |
Special Contribution to Sports | , , Morris "Bucky" Buckwalter, Columbia Sportswear (Tim Boyle and Gert Boyle), , , , , Harry Glickman, L.H. Gregory, Leo Harris, Tinker Hatfield, Robert A. Hudson, Dwight Jaynes, Tom Jernstedt, , , Philip H. Knight, , , , , , Harry Merlo, Multnomah Athletic Club, , Bob Newland, Nike Inc., , , Pendleton Round-Up, Chuck Richards, , , , , |
Teams[]
The Hall of Fame has also inducted these teams:
- 1917 University of Oregon Rose Bowl champions
- 1938–39 Oregon "Tall Firs" basketball team
- 1942 Oregon State Beavers Rose Bowl champions
- 1944 Lind-Pomeroy Amateur Softball Association world champions
- 1948 Oregon Ducks football team
- 1948–49 Oregon State Beavers basketball team
- 1958 Drain Black Sox National Baseball Congress Champions
- 1960–61 Portland Buckaroos
- 1962 Oregon Ducks track team
- 1962 Oregon State Beavers football team
- 1962–63 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team
- 1964 Oregon Ducks track & field team
- 1964 Erv Lind Softball Amateur Softball Association World Champions
- 1965–66 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team
- 1966 Linfield Baseball NAIA Champions
- 1967 Oregon State Beavers football team
- 1969 Contractor's, Inc. American Legion Baseball National Champions
- 1975 Portland Timbers soccer team
- 1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers
- 1980–81 Oregon State Beavers men's basketball team
- 1982, 1984, 1986, and 2004 Linfield Football National Champions
- 1994 Oregon Ducks football team
- 2000 Oregon State Beavers football team
- 2002 Portland Pilots soccer team
- 2006 Oregon State Beavers baseball team
- 2007 Oregon State Beavers baseball team
References[]
- ^ "Sports Hall of Fame finds a new home". Portland Business Journal. 1997-05-22. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Museum closes temporarily". Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-27.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Brandon, Steve (2008-04-22). "Museum hunts for new home". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
Coordinates: 45°27′40″N 122°38′16″W / 45.4612°N 122.6379°W
- Halls of fame in Oregon
- State sports halls of fame in the United States
- All-sports halls of fame
- Sports in Oregon
- Sports museums in Oregon
- Museums in Portland, Oregon
- Awards established in 1980
- 1980 establishments in Oregon