From
The
Current
members of the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame
Chuck
Moser, Abilene High football coach
B.L.
"Blacky"
Jack
Mildren, Cooper and
Billy
Olson, Abilene High, ACU and Olympic pole vaulter
Louis
Kelley, Abilene Woodson football player and long-time Lubbock Estacado
coach
Rick
Meyers, Cooper, TCU and professional tennis player
Jimmy
Carpenter, Abilene High and
Glynn
Gregory, Abilene High, SMU and Dallas Cowboy football player
Dan
Salkeld, Abilene High football player
P.E.
"Pete Shotwell, Abilene High and Breckenridge
football coach
Gordon
Wood, Wylie graduate who won nine state football title
at
Charles
Coody,
Sammy
Baugh, Sweetwater and Washington Redskins quarterback, original member of Pro
Football Hall of Fame
Mindy
Myers Flowers, Munday who is most decorated track, basketball and cross country
athlete in UIL history
Don
Maynard,
David
Parks, Abilene High, Texas Tech and San Francisco 49ers receiver, first pick in
1964 NFL Draft
Bev
Ball, Throckmorton, spent 48 years in the
John
Kimbrough, Haskell and Texas A&M running back
Bob
Estes, Abilene Cooper,
Hershel
Kimbrell, former Abilene High basketball and baseball player and long-time
Grant
Teaff, former
Max
Williams, former Avoca and SMU basketball great
Bob
Harrison, former
Jerry
Tubbs, former Breckenridge, Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboy football great who
coached with Tom Landry for the Cowboys
Bill
Hart, Baird, first recipient of the Lifetime Media Achievement Award who spent
28 years covering Big Country sports for the Abilene Reporter-News
Chuck
Hughes, Abilene High and Texas-El Paso football star who was the last player to
die in an NFL game