1972 FLY CASTING INDUCTEE JIM PRICE Jim Price, who was handsome enough to play a role in A River Runs Through It, parlayed a boyhood love for fishing into a championship casting ability on a national competitive level. The Fresno-born and Fresno High School alum, Price developed his rod, reel, and fly casting abilities at…
1972 BASEBALL INDUCTEE LARRY POWELL Some baseball players can last twenty years in the game and never play for a championship team. Larry Powell was on the roster of seven pennant winners in a five-year span. “Makes for a good trivia question and I actually heard one radio announcer in the Bay Area ask, ‘What…
1972 COMMUNITY LEADER INDUCTEE M. D., HY M. GINSBURG H.M. “Hy” Ginsburg was one tough customer. In his days at Tulare High School before graduating in 1922, he racked up All-Conference honors in football, basketball, and track. He was always known for his work ethic and his “all for the team” attitude. At Fresno State…
1972 COACHING-FOOTBALL INDUCTEE J. R. BOONE If was asked to describe former high school and collegiate level football coach J.R. Boone in five words, no phrase would fit him better than a “man of action, not words.” He was not a passive kind of guy. Boone was not a tightly-wound man. He worked hard at…
1972 DIVING INDUCTEE BARBARA MCALISTER-ANDREWS In 1958, a Roosevelt High School junior girl hit the national headlines when she won the National Junior Women’s Three Meter Diving Championship in an AAU meet held in Fresno. Barbara McAllister Andrews went on from this auspicious beginning to a very notable world class career in diving, spring board,…
1971 BASKETBALL INDUCTEE P. F. POLLY WILHELMSEN Coaching in junior college ranks for 24 years, P.F. “Polly” Wilhelmsen led College of the Sequoias teams, from 1941 to 1965, to a record 355 wins against 194 losses. During this span of mentorship, Wilhelmsen coached COS squads captured nine Conference Championships, one California JC (1953) title and…
1971 FOOTBALL INDUCTEE DON PAUL For more than 20 years, be it as a high school, university, and pro competitor or as a coach and leader, Don Paul has excelled in the game of football. Paul’s pro career began with Los Angeles Rams in 1948 and he played eight years with the Southern California National…
1971 ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATOR INDUCTEE HUNTLEY DAYTON Huntley Dayton was an object lesson that debunked Leo Durocher’s famous line that “Nice guys finish last.” The Minnesota native moved to Parlier in 1921 and spent thirty-five years coaching a variety of sports. He was at Parlier High School until 1925 and at Sanger High School from 1926…
1971 FOOTBALL INDUCTEE LEE D. CRANMER Although his father did not want him to play football, Lee D. Cranmer took the road from Fresno High School’s Varsity to the Rose Bowl and along the way changed his father’s mind. A native of the San Joaquin Valley, Cranmer came to Fresno when he was two years…
1971 TRACK & FIELD INDUCTEE ART CAZARES Art Cazares has a place in the Fresno State track and field record book that most likely will never be equaled. He is the only distance runner in Bulldog history to win an NCAA championship. As a senior, Cazares won the NCAA two-mile in 9:10 in 1942. The…