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[SIZE=14pt]Hart: Slingin' Sammy finally gets Texas football hall completion[/SIZE]
By Bill Hart
Sports smorgasbord, while wondering whatever happened to former Munday High and Hawley High coach Steve Gunter:
Sammy Baugh is finally being inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in Waco on May 8.
Baugh, who died in December 2008, was voted in several years ago, but since he was unable to attend — which is one of the requirements to get in, he was put on hold.
One of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of football, Slingin’ Sammy played high school football and baseball at Sweetwater High School, then TCU and the Washington Redskins before retiring and becoming a coach of the New York Titans and Hardin-Simmons University.
Joining him in this year’s class are Joe Clements, Bill and Bert Gravitt, Peter Gardere, Koy Detmer, Thomas Lott, coach Theo Miles and Dr. Mark King.
The Gravitts led Denver City to the 1960 state championship, the first one I ever covered. This is their first big day of the year. The other will be oSept. 17 when the Mustangs will celebrate the 50th year reunion of that championship during the Denver City homecoming.
Found her
Wondering whatever happened to found Kathryn Otwell coaching girls basketball at Azle High School and with the Texas Express AAU program.
After graduating from DeLeon High and HSU, where she had outstanding basketball careers, she served as graduate assistant to the Cowgirls while completing her master’s degree. Then, she spent time in Isafjuror, Iceland, playing pro basketball with a team called KFI. She also had time to coach a semi-pro team of girls ages 15 to 18.
She said she met a lot of nice people and someday she plans to return.
Otwell returned to the States and served five years as an assistant coach at Boston University, which competed four of those seasons in the America East Conference championships and made it to the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Ten of the players were all-conference and most went on to play in the pro WNBA.
In 2007, she moved to Azle as head coach, but as a world traveler she gathered a lot of good memories.
Sports hall ticket deadline nears
The deadline to order tickets for the Big Country Hall of Fame induction ceremony is April 30.
The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 10, at Abilene Civic Center. Tickets are $40 and checks may be mailed to 25 Glen Abbey, Abilene, TX 79606.
Another strong class will be inducted that night: former Abilene High footballers Twyman Ash and Stuart Peake; former Cooper football players Jon Harrison and the late Jon Rhiddlehoover; former Merkel High and Abilene Christian football and basketball standout Robert McLeod, who later played for the pro football for the Houston Oilers; Wylie basketball player Lynn Corn; referee Otis Greever; Cooper basketball player Andrae Patterson; and the Pat Gerald family of Sweetwater, the first recipient of the Legacy Award.
For information, call 325-668-3685 and go to Web site www.bigcountryhalloffame.org to get a form to order tickets.
Why wait a year?
Twelve high schools will open their doors next fall and all but four will start athletics. The other four won’t start playing until 2012.
Former Cisco athlete in news
Joey Worley, the former Cisco High basketball player who attended Cisco Junior College and ACU, is one of three nominees for second vice president of the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. The voting already has started.
Worley coached at Rochelle for two years before going to Fairfield the past 20 years, the last 11 as head coach. His teams have made the playoffs seven of those seasons and this year they made it to the regional tournament.
Next they’re going fishing
Former Jim Ned-Texas quarterback Colt McCoy joined pro quarterback prospects Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame) and Tim Tebow (Florida) on a Thursday night show hosted by former Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden.
McCoy and Gruden developed a friendship and now they are planning on going on a fishing expideition.
End of quote: “I watched The Simpsons.” — New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez on why he missed the “60 Minutes” segment on the team’s new owner, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
Bill Hart is a retired senior sports writer of the Reporter-News. Contact him by e-mail at hartbf@msn.com or by mail at 640 Arch St., Baird, TX 79504.
[SIZE=14pt]Hart: Slingin' Sammy finally gets Texas football hall completion[/SIZE]
By Bill Hart
Sports smorgasbord, while wondering whatever happened to former Munday High and Hawley High coach Steve Gunter:
Sammy Baugh is finally being inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame in Waco on May 8.
Baugh, who died in December 2008, was voted in several years ago, but since he was unable to attend — which is one of the requirements to get in, he was put on hold.
One of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of football, Slingin’ Sammy played high school football and baseball at Sweetwater High School, then TCU and the Washington Redskins before retiring and becoming a coach of the New York Titans and Hardin-Simmons University.
Joining him in this year’s class are Joe Clements, Bill and Bert Gravitt, Peter Gardere, Koy Detmer, Thomas Lott, coach Theo Miles and Dr. Mark King.
The Gravitts led Denver City to the 1960 state championship, the first one I ever covered. This is their first big day of the year. The other will be oSept. 17 when the Mustangs will celebrate the 50th year reunion of that championship during the Denver City homecoming.
Found her
Wondering whatever happened to found Kathryn Otwell coaching girls basketball at Azle High School and with the Texas Express AAU program.
After graduating from DeLeon High and HSU, where she had outstanding basketball careers, she served as graduate assistant to the Cowgirls while completing her master’s degree. Then, she spent time in Isafjuror, Iceland, playing pro basketball with a team called KFI. She also had time to coach a semi-pro team of girls ages 15 to 18.
She said she met a lot of nice people and someday she plans to return.
Otwell returned to the States and served five years as an assistant coach at Boston University, which competed four of those seasons in the America East Conference championships and made it to the NCAA Women’s Tournament. Ten of the players were all-conference and most went on to play in the pro WNBA.
In 2007, she moved to Azle as head coach, but as a world traveler she gathered a lot of good memories.
Sports hall ticket deadline nears
The deadline to order tickets for the Big Country Hall of Fame induction ceremony is April 30.
The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 10, at Abilene Civic Center. Tickets are $40 and checks may be mailed to 25 Glen Abbey, Abilene, TX 79606.
Another strong class will be inducted that night: former Abilene High footballers Twyman Ash and Stuart Peake; former Cooper football players Jon Harrison and the late Jon Rhiddlehoover; former Merkel High and Abilene Christian football and basketball standout Robert McLeod, who later played for the pro football for the Houston Oilers; Wylie basketball player Lynn Corn; referee Otis Greever; Cooper basketball player Andrae Patterson; and the Pat Gerald family of Sweetwater, the first recipient of the Legacy Award.
For information, call 325-668-3685 and go to Web site www.bigcountryhalloffame.org to get a form to order tickets.
Why wait a year?
Twelve high schools will open their doors next fall and all but four will start athletics. The other four won’t start playing until 2012.
Former Cisco athlete in news
Joey Worley, the former Cisco High basketball player who attended Cisco Junior College and ACU, is one of three nominees for second vice president of the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches. The voting already has started.
Worley coached at Rochelle for two years before going to Fairfield the past 20 years, the last 11 as head coach. His teams have made the playoffs seven of those seasons and this year they made it to the regional tournament.
Next they’re going fishing
Former Jim Ned-Texas quarterback Colt McCoy joined pro quarterback prospects Sam Bradford (Oklahoma), Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame) and Tim Tebow (Florida) on a Thursday night show hosted by former Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden.
McCoy and Gruden developed a friendship and now they are planning on going on a fishing expideition.
End of quote: “I watched The Simpsons.” — New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez on why he missed the “60 Minutes” segment on the team’s new owner, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
Bill Hart is a retired senior sports writer of the Reporter-News. Contact him by e-mail at hartbf@msn.com or by mail at 640 Arch St., Baird, TX 79504.