Began his competitive career at Central Junior and Senior Highs, competing on the 1939 state high school championship team. Won Ohio AAU long jump titles 1942, 1944 and 1947, and as captain of the Ohio State University track team he won the NCAA long jump championship and placed second in the 220-yd. hurdles in 1944.
Won Junior National AAU championships in the 220-yd. freestyle and the 200-yd. breaststroke and swam on the championship medley relay team in 1940. Won Ohio championships in the 100, 220, 440 and mile freestyle swim the following year. Also won the Fairport Open Water mile that year, beating the winning men’s time by almost two […]
A two-time NCAA All-American (1972 and 1973) and the Big Ten All-Around champion at the University of Michigan after winning numerous AAU Junior Olympic and senior AAU championships at West Tech High. Won the national YMCA’s Elite division all-around championship in 1976.
Captained the 1924 St. Ignatius High School football team which defeated Cathedral Latin for the City Championship, winning All-Scholastic honors as a fullback and linebacker. Went to college at John Carroll University where he played four seasons as a fullback on offense and linebacker on defense, twice winning All-Ohio fullback laurels. Inducted into the JCU […]
An All-Scholastic and All-Senate back who captained the 1923 West Tech High team to an undefeated and unscored upon season and its first Senate championship, Barclay Sanders went on to Ashland College where he started as a freshman in 1926 and was elected president of the Varsity Club. Later played for Baldwin-Wallace College, earning All […]
Ohio State champion in the flying rings in 1935, 1936 and 1937 and in the horizontal bars in 1936 and 1937 while attending East Tech High. Went on to win the AAU national championship in the flying rings in 1942, also winning the AAU district championship that year. The previous year he won the AAU […]
Goalie for the Cleveland all-star team which won the National AAU Championship at New Haven, Connecticut in 1939. Starred in amateur circles from 1929 to 1940, competing for strong Blepp-Coombs, Pepsi-Cola and Fisher Foods teams, once putting together a string of eight consecutive shutouts.
Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1983 following a brilliant career as a wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns from 1964-69 and again in 1976-77 and an interim stint with the two-time Super Bowl Champion Miami Dolphins. Compiled career totals of 427 receptions, 85 touchdowns and […]
A skilled sabreman, Thomas Legeza captured a total of 38 medals during a competitive career which stretched from 1953 through 1965. His most notable triumphs included two international invitational championships, four Ohio titles and one Illinois championship.
Between 1952 and 1968 Musichuk won 18 epee championships, including divisional, Ohio, Midwest, Canadian Heroes and national Polish Falcons titles. In all he won 50 medals and fenced on teams which finished third nationally in 1957 and second in 1958. Also served as chairman of the Northern Ohio Division of the Amateur Fencers League of […]