1972 DIVING INDUCTEE BARBARA MCALISTER 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 “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 competed in…
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…
1970 COMMUNITY LEADER INDUCTEE EARL WIGHT Earl Wight surfaced in Fresno in 1924 following three seasons as basketball coach at the University of California. Wight accepted the job as director of athletics and physical education at Fresno State which fielded its first football team in 1921. Wight was a star quarterback at Pomona College where…
1970 ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION INDUCTEE J.W. WARNER Thirty-four years of high school coaching in Fresno have firmly established J.W. “Pop” Warner in the history of H.S. athletics in the San Joaquin Valley. Warner began coaching in 1907 at Fresno High. He remained there until February 1922 and then went to Fresno Tech, where he stayed until…
1970 PLAYGROUND ADMINISTRATOR INDUCTEE RAYMOND QUIGLEY Early in his life, Raymond Quigley participated in athletics to combat a frail constitution. On one-Fourth of July in Central City, Colorado, he won a foot race for eight-yer-olds, then a race for 10-year-olds and a few minutes later a race for 12-year-olds. Then he was barred from further…
1970 FOOTBALL INDUCTEE ROY NISWANDER In 1920, Roy Niswander began an illustrious career on the gridiron as a fullback on the Fresno High School team. He was famed for his line smashing and was the terror of the local prep competition. He was captain of the Warriors in 1922. Matriculating to the University of California,…