After coaching for six years in Arkansas, Rex Bailey began his 25-year Missouri career at Caruthersville. After the initial season, he spent three years each at Steele, Wardell, and Couch High School. Bailey then began his illustrious 18-year tenure as head coach and athletic director at Potosi High School. After 31 years of coaching, he… Read more »
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Dr. John D. Bailey
Dr. John D. Bailey is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon, specializing in general orthopedics, sports medicine and spine surgery. John attended Northeast Missouri State University, graduating in 1986 and then moved on to Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he graduated with a D.O. degree in 1990. His connection with sports is well known in northeast… Read more »
Dr. James Baker
A football tackle at the University of Missouri in 1929-30, Baker later became its first team physician in 1938. During a 40-year career, Baker served football coaches Don Faurot (MSHOF 1953 (Coaches) and 2001 (Legends), Frank Broyles, Dan Devine (MSHOF 1973), and Al Onofrio (MSHOF 2012). He also worked with basketball coaches George Edwards (MSHOF… Read more »
Jim Ball
A native of Camdenton, Jim Ball was a three-year basketball letterman at Missouri State University from 1941 through 1943 and he was one of the numerous Bruin athletes whose playing career was interrupted by World War II. The SMS center, Ball led the 1942 SMS team in scoring with 222 points as the Bears won… Read more »
Dr. Mildred Barnes
Serving as Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Central Missouri State University (now University of Central Missouri) from 1971 to 1980, Dr. Barnes’s teams posted a 156-63 record. That 71.2% mark came against Division I and Division II schools. Against DI schools, her record was 95-33 and against Big Ten institutions, she was a perfect 8-0.… Read more »
Cave Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College. In… Read more »
Finis Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and they earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College.… Read more »
John Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and they earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College.… Read more »
Lloyd Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College. In… Read more »
Raymond Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College. In… Read more »
Harold Barrow
A Westminster College record that will stand the test of time involves the Barrow Brothers from New Bloomfield, Missouri. Five of the six sons attended Westminster. Each was named to the Dean’s List and earned a combined 32 varsity letters during a 17-year stretch when at least one son was enrolled at the College. In… Read more »
Bill Barton
Bill Barton’s résumé spans decades, generations and nearly every corner of Missouri basketball. Over 35 seasons at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Barton guided the Roadrunners to 625 wins, Region 16 titles and two NJCAA Tournament appearances. He sent players to the highest levels of college basketball, built a program from the ground up… Read more »
Gene Bartow
Bartow, a Browning, Mo., native coached 36 years at six universities after coaching two high schools in Missouri for six years. Bartow began his coaching at the prep level in Missouri, coaching Shelbina and St. Charles High School basketball squads to a 145–39 win-loss mark in six seasons. His 1957 St. Charles team won the… Read more »
Fred Pohlman, Jr.
Polhman’s coaching career began in Vandalia, Missouri in 1956, where he coached baseball, basketball and track. From Vandalia, he moved to coaching at various high schools in Kansas City, Missouri and in 1967, he was hired to start the Penn Valley Community College basketball program. Thirty-two years later, Pohlman has established an impressive record with… Read more »
Sallie Beard
In the fall of 1974, two years after the passage of federal Title IX legislation, the door to Sallie Beard’s office swung open, as several women on the Missouri Southern State University campus sought to start a basketball team. Suddenly, the teacher who had a bias against athletics – those were her own words –… Read more »
Harold “Hilly” Beck
Hilly grew up in Nebraska and was an excellent basketball and football player. Upon graduating from high school, Beck then attended Hastings College, where he he played football and basketball. He was the all-time leading scorer in basketball with 1,776 points. Beck served Baptist Bible College as an assistant basketball coach from 1983-1987. He took… Read more »