On September 10th, the University of Kentucky will induct 88 individuals as charter members of the UK Athletics Hall of Fame. Of those 88 inductees, 34 are alumni of the UK College of Education.

The formal induction ceremony will be held Saturday night, September 10, at Memorial Coliseum during the UK Wildcats football game against Idaho State.

According to UK Athletics, the UK Athletics Hall of Fame will recognize and honor persons whose participation and contributions enriched and strengthened the University’s athletics program. Criteria to be considered include academic as well as athletic accomplishments while at UK as well as post-UK accomplishments.

From the charter class, the following College of Education alumni will be honored:

Ermal Allen
Sam Ball
Cliff Barker
Ralph Beard
Rodger Bird
George Blanda
Bob Burrow
Jerry Claiborne
Blanton Collier
Johnny Cox
Dermontti Dawson
John “Frenchy” DeMoisey
Deron Feldhaus
Irv Goode
Alex Groza
Cliff Hagan
Joe B. Hall

Vernon Hatton
Mark Higgs
Clyde Johnson
Wah Wah Jones
Kyle Macy
Charlie McClendon
Steve Meilinger
Lou Michaels
Vito “Babe” Parilli
Pat Riley
Forest “Aggie” Sale
Washington “Wash” Serini
Carey Spicer
Bill Spivey
Lou Tsioropoulos
Herschel Turner
Harry Ulinski

Last updated by the webmaster@coe.uky.edu August 4, 2005 16:50