Brief: February 6, 2008

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Kansas Athletics announced its inductees for the inaugural class of the University of Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame Tuesday.

According to a news release from Kansas Athletics, the list of inductees includes 33 individuals and 15 teams. According to a news release from Kansas Athletics, the athletic department will unveil a new Hall of Fame exhibit in the Booth Hall of Athletics at 11 a.m. Saturday. The induction ceremony will take place during the men’s basketball game against Baylor that evening.

The list of inductees includes Olympians, NCAA champions, world-record holders and even a few former Kansas players who became famous coaches at other universities. Individuals to be inducted include: Leon Bauman, Thorn Bigley, Leo Bookman, Everette Bradley, John Bunn, Wilbur Coen, Clyde Coffman, Art Dalzell, Bill Dotson, Kent Floerke, Merwin Graham, Curtis Grindal, Charlie Hoag, Bill Hougland, Randy Julian, John Keller, Al Kelley, Dean Kelley, Bob Kenney, Lloyd Koby, Bill Lienhard, John McClendon, Richard McGlinn, Ralph Miller, Ray Moulton, Ben Olison, John Outland*, Dwight Peck, Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, Don Smith, Dick Wilson and Tom Yergovich.

Nine of the 15 teams to be inducted into the Hall of Fame are men’s basketball teams. They are the teams from 1958, 1960, 1967, 1978, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997 and 1998. The non-men’s basketball teams to be inducted are: 1930 wrestling, 1980 men’s outdoor track and field, 1981 women’s basketball, and 1983, 1985 and 1986 softball.

—Edited by Russell Davies

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