Living and Competing Like Champions
Among the membership of the Carson-Newman Athletics Hall of Fame are spread the headlines and footnotes of Carson-Newman's athletics history. As was the case at many institutions in the 19th century, sports at then Carson-Newman College were regarded as incidental to education. Such activities were therefore relegated to purposes of recreation and relaxation until the institution's first Field Day - June 3, 1893. Within just two years of that event, a baseball team was organized and had posted a victory in the school's first intercollegiate contest, a 4-3 win over the University of Tennessee.
These tributes in this Hall grant a sense of the physical ability and athletic excellence that have been mainstays of the Carson-Newman educational experience for more than 120 years.
Interest in establishing Carson-Newman's Athletics Hall of Fame began in the early 1980s, First came stories from those who loved discussing particular games, as well sas the plays and players that made them special. Those conversations led President Cordell Maddox to form an administrative committee. That body chose the initial inductees and oversaw the 1985 enshrinement of the Hall's charter class of seven men and one woman - Dana X. Bible, Roy Harmon, Sam B. "Frosty" Holt, Mae Iddins, Bernie Moore, Lake Russell, Milas "Slim" Shoun and Earnest Tucker.
Originally reserved exclusively for letter winners, nominations are now open to those who have played an official sport across the institution's history and are 10 years removed from the conclusion of their Carson-Newman career. in 1994, membership was likewise opened to those who invested their lives in leading or promoting C-N sports. Coaches Dick Campbell (basketball) and Bobby Wilson (baseball) were inducted the following year.
Space has been reserved in this Hall for those whose stories continue to speak to sports exellence and whose lives continue to share the Truth, Beauty and Goodness on which a Carson-Newman education and athletic experience are based.
The Criteria for membership to the C-N Athletics Hall of Fame are as follows:
- Those men and women who shall be considered for membership in the Hall of Fame must have demonstrated the highest standards of character and recognized athletics achievement while at Carson-Newman, or have exhibited great leadership and direction in advancing the excellence of the Carson-Newman athletics program.
- A candidate shall have graduated or been out of Carson-Newman for a minimum of ten (10) years. The Executive Committee shall be empowered to waive this requirement.
NOMINATION FORM
The mechanics of election shall be as follows:
- Any Club member may nominate in writing any eligible candidate for consideration. Nominations are open year-round and are done through our website at cneagles.com. A club member may nominate no more than two candidates per year. All nominations will remain active for three years.
- Nomination for Hall of Fame will be accepted year-round but close on August 1 of each year.
- The Executive Committee of the Club will offer a slate of no more than nine nominees for consideration.
- A ballot shall be prepared from this slate of nominees and sent to all Club members of record. Club members may vote only once for up to seven nominees. If a ballot contains more than the seven votes, it will be thrown out due to the stated rule.
- Voting will occur on the cneagles.com website from September 20 and conclude on October 1 of each year.
INDUCTEES
CLASS OF 1985
(INITIAL INDUCTEES): Dana X. Bible (1912): Football, Basketball,
Baseball; Bernie Moore (1917): Football; Ernest Tucker (1924): Football, Baseball, Tennis; Mae Iddins (1926): Basketball; Lake Russell (1926): Football, Basketball, Baseball, Coach; Sam "Frosty" Holt (1927): Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track, Coach, Athletic Director; Milas Shoun (1927): Football, Basketball; Roy Harmon (1943): Football, Track, Coach.
CLASS OF 1986
Roy Smith (1934): Football, Basketball, Baseball; Frank Grubb (1937): Football; Wendell Henderson (1937): Football, Baseball, Track; Bill Catlett (1940): Football, Basketball, Baseball; John Murray (1948): Football, Basketball, Baseball; Ernest "Baldy" Cosson (1950): Football; Ray Allen Shubert (1941): Football, Baseball; Arnold Mellinger (1957): Basketball; Dal Shealy (1950): Football, Coach; Bobby Baker (1963): Football; Clyde Wright (1965): Baseball.
CLASS OF 1987
John Hutchins (1925): Football, Basketball, Baseball; Paul Layman (1935): Football, Basketball, Baseball; Don King (1924): Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track; Albert Sloan (1932): Athletic Administrator.
CLASS OF 1988
Charles Hamblen (1939): Basketball; Nick Hyder (1957): Football; Chris Jones (1962): Basketball, Coach; Milton Nixon (1937): Football, Basketball.
CLASS OF 1989
Ken Sparks (1968): Football, Coach, Athletic Director; W.A. Wright (1968): Baseball, Basketball; Carl Torbush (1974): Football, Baseball; Buddy Catlett (1954): Tennis.
CLASS OF 1990
Gil Luttrell (1964): Basketball, Baseball; Dusty Roden (1947): Football, Basketball, Coach; T.J. Stafford (1938): Football, Basketball, Coach.
CLASS OF 1993
John Ed Dowling (1937): Football, Basketball, Baseball; Libby Hudson Gardner (1968): Basketball, V-ball, Tennis, Swimming, Coach
CLASS OF 1994
Missy Brown (1982): Basketball; Dick Campbell (1958-67): Men's
Basketball Coach; Sanders Shiver (1975): Football; Bobby Wilson (1965-87): Baseball Coach.
CLASS OF 1998
Hubert Ashe (1953): Football and Baseball; Bobby Black (1965): Football and Baseball; Ira Dance (1923): Football; Fay Bowman Evans (1929): Basketball; Tommy Everette (1970): Basketball; Sylvia Hatchell (1974): Basketball; Tommy Jones (1970): Baseball and Football.
CLASS OF 2002
Bob Cope (1964): Football; Boyce Green (1974): Football; Roy Hill (1965): Baseball and Basketball; Vickee Kazee Hollifield (1983): Softball; Jean Love (1983): Tennis; Jack Wade (1950): Football, Basketball and Baseball.
CLASS OF 2007
Pat Apke (1986): Football; Tim George (1973): Football; David Guinn (1970): Wrestling; Data Caldwell (1980): Basketball; Bill Foster (1958): Basketball; Mike Ogan (1974): Basketball.
CLASS OF 2009
Larry Cooke (1978): Track; Billy Henry (1959): Basketball; Carol (Zachary) Mitchell (1991): Softball; Ken Rucker (1976): Football; Danny Sanders (1979): Football; Lisa Stogner (1984): Basketball; Glenn Wade (1949): Football and Basketball; Rodney Wampler (1972): Football.
CLASS OF 2010
William "Puggy" Blackmon (1973): Golf; David Brewer (1975): Tennis; John W. Hudson (1939): Basketball; Mac Lambert (1955): Football; Dr. Jack Owenby (1960): Basketball and Baseball; Patricia (Rouchon) Wells (1988): Tennis Steve Williams (1973): Basketball
Class of 2011
Bud Bales (1964): Baseball; Ben Booker (1943) Basketball and Football; Clark Bryan (1963) Basketball and Track; Derrick Davis (1961) Soccer; George "Buzzy" Mann (1982) Wrestling; Danny Maples (1977) Baseball; Jim Shuler (1966) Basketball and Tennis
Class of 2012
David Barger (1970): Adminstrator; Jerry Cannon (1967): Basketball; Joe Fishback (1990): Football; Mark Isom (1985): Football; Lib Julian (1958): Basketball and Baseball
Class of 2013
Sammi Hatcher Chafin (1993): Softball; Heather Randolph (1996): Softball; Leah Jackson-Smith (1993): Women's Basketball
Class of 2016
Mike Clowney (1997): Football; Gene Lively (1967): Baseball; Karen Morton (1986); Women's Basketball; Cedric Killings (2000): Football; Lewis Bivens (Women's Basketball Coach 1979-87)
Class of 2019
Mike Turner (1973), Football; Jim Deaton (1974), Football; Bill Mitchell (Football Coach); Mike Whitley (Football Coach); Leonard Weaver (2005), Football; Marci Mitchell Whiteside (2003), Softball
Class of 2020
Steve Adams (1984), Men's Basketball; Jennifer Bock Ryan (2006), Women's Soccer; Eddie Carter (1979), Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball Coach and Administrator; Whitney Hickam Cruze (2008), Softball; Quez Rumph (2000), Football; Robert Thomas (1992), Football; and Kenneth Tyson (1988), Football
