He initially cut his teeth in radio while in college, got drafted into the Army and worked for the Armed Forces Network while stationed in the Panama Canal Zone – “There was a price on our heads,” he recalled – and ultimately parachuted into the Kansas City media market. And, then, Jack Harry never left,… Read more »
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1957-1958 St. Louis Hawks
The 1957–58 NBA season was the St. Louis Hawks’ third in Missouri. Coming off their trip to the 1957 NBA Finals, the Hawks won the Western Division by eight games with a record of 41 wins and 31 losses. Bob Pettit ranked third in scoring and second in rebounding. In the Western Finals, the Hawks beat the Detroit… Read more »
Max Hayes
Max Hayes’ was born on a farm in Smith County, Kansas. He attended Smith Center High School where he starred in track, basketball and football. As a first-generation college student, Hayes left home to attend college at the University of Kansas in 1947. There, coach Phog Allen (MSHOF 1952) urged him to try out for… Read more »
Gary Hazelrigg
Gary Hazelrigg was the first athletic trainer for Missouri Western State University, a role he filled for 13 years. Later, he worked with the Columbia Orthopedics Group (COG) to develop the Columbia Sports Medicine Center. Additionally, he has a long-standing service with the Olympic programs, particularly men’s basketball. He has also served as HealthSouth’s National… Read more »
Burl Henderson
Burl “Bud” Henderson started his career in basketball as a student-athlete at Southwest Missouri State University. After graduation, his first coaching position was at Mount Vernon High School, which at the time did not even have a real gym where students could play. Finally, in 1929, one was constructed, but since the team had little… Read more »
Charlie Henke
Many probably remember the benches-clearing brawl between the Missouri Tigers and Kansas Jayhawks in March 1961 – with Mizzou center Charlie Henke right in the middle of it. Fortunately, that is not Henke’s claim to fame. No, for that, just look at Mizzou basketball’s record book, because his name is all over it – thanks… Read more »
Steve Hesser
It’s an iconic image that brings a smile to many in Springfield: The coach of the Drury University men’s basketball team, standing on a ladder, holding up a cut-down basketball net and showing it off. The photo is of Steve Hesser celebrating Drury winning the 2013 NCAA Division II national championship after the Panthers rallied… Read more »
Ed Hickey
Hickey was a football and basketball coach. He coached basketball at his alma mater, Creighton University (1934–1943, 1946–1947), St. Louis University (1947–1958), and Marquette University (1958–1964), compiling a 429–230 record. His greatest success came at St. Louis University where he posted a career won-loss record of 212-89. This includes an NIT championship in the 1947-48… Read more »
Hickman Mills High School Girls Basketball Era 1977-1980
In late fall of 1976, one year after their high school first fielded a girls basketball team, a group of girls gathered in the Hickman Mills High School gymnasium for the launch of a new season. You could say confidence was high. After all, a majority had played AAU basketball in recent summers, or had… Read more »
Terry Higgins
In the early 1980s, when he first began teaching at Carl Junction High School, Terry Higgins was asked to be the public address announcer for junior varsity and freshmen football games. He still remembers that first contest – a 6-0 JV Bulldog victory against East Newton – but little did he know that press boxes… Read more »
Hillyard, Inc.
In 1920, N.S. Hillyard, founder of the Hillyard Companies erected a new plant in St. Joseph, housing the largest wood gym floor west of the Mississippi. He used it as a test site for his gym floor maintenance products. N.S. organized a company basketball team that became the two-time national A.A.U. champions and earned Hillyard… Read more »
Barry Hinson
He remembers it as if it was yesterday. The note handed to him by a campus security guard, with instructions to call the athletic director at Missouri State University just up I-44 in Springfield. This was way before the general public carried cell phones, and Barry Hinson wondered what it could be. At the time,… Read more »
Larry Holley
Think Larry Holley loved coaching from the start? Get this – his first basketball job was at Harrisburg, where he coached six teams (boys and girls varsity, JV and junior high) without an assistant coach and lived in a mobile home across the street. “I coached 91 games that year,” Holley said, “and I’m proud… Read more »
Al Houser
His coaching career began at Corder, Missouri, where he served as the basketball and track coach. Houser spent the next eleven years at Marionville, coaching football, basketball and track. He moved on to Republic for four years before moving back to Marionville for three years. During his second stay with Marionville, his basketball teams compiled… Read more »
Melody Howard
During her prep career at Marshfield High School, Melody Howard led her team to 3 consecutive State Championships, 1988-’90. She was named the state Player of the Year as a senior. Howard joined the SMSU Lady Bears Basketball program in 1989 and led them to national prominence as the All-time Leading Scorer with 1,944 points… Read more »
Jerry Hughes
These days, there is nothing small about so-called small college athletics, and Jerry Hughes – the longtime athletic director of the University of Central Missouri – has been among its champions. Just walk across the Warrensburg campus. A $6 million fundraising effort has led to the football team’s new locker room, strength and conditioning center… Read more »