John Omohundro was a trainer with the Cardinals for 42 years, including the last 37 years as the team’s head athletic trainer. Including preseason, regular season, and postseason, Omohundro worked 838 games throughout his Cardinals’ employment; his final contest was for 42 years; his last game was Super Bowl XLIII in February of 2009. He… Read more »
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Al Onofrio
In 1971, after spending 12 years as an assistant coach, Albert Joseph Onofrio was named the head football coach at the University of Missouri, a post he held until 1977. While his record hovered at the .500 level, he was noted for having pulled upsets, mainly on the road. He coached four All-Americans and 30… Read more »
Ed Osiek
Edward Henry Osiek played football, basketball, baseball, and track at St. Charles High School from 1932 to 1936. After high school, he played minor-league baseball from 1936 to 1938. Osiek began his career as a sporting goods salesman in 1940 in his father’s business, Economy Sporting Goods, in St Charles. He later worked in sales… Read more »
Jim Otis
It’s almost as if a Hollywood script writer delivered it right to Frank Capra himself. How else to explain the career of Jim Otis? There he was at age 7 in a photo beside 1955 Heisman Trophy winner Howard “Hopalong” Cassidy of Ohio State. As a high school junior, with the headlights of teammates’ cars… Read more »
Gus Otto
Born in 1943 in St. Louis, MO, Gus Otto attended McBride Catholic High School and was a well rounded athlete. Upon graduation, Gus was awarded a football scholarship by Dan Devine and the University of Missouri. A standout linebacker for the Tigers, Otto was the team’s captain during his senior season. He earned All-Big Eight… Read more »
Dave Palmeiro
28 of Dave’s 30 years in coaching have come at the helm of the Tarkio Indians at Tarkio High School. During his tenure, Coach Palmeiro amassed a total of 204 victories against only 56 defeats and 5 ties. A 1993 inductee to the Missouri Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame, he guided his Indians to… Read more »
Norris Patterson
Dr. Patterson amassed an impressive 134-33-10 record as head coach of the William Jewell College Cardinals during his 18 year tenure. Under his leadership, the Cardinals won 13 conference titles and finished as runner-up five times. The late Dr. Patterson is also a member of the NAIA, NACDA Athletic Directors, Missouri Valley College and William… Read more »
Jim Pearson
A graduate of Missouri Valley College, Jim played football for the Vikings under Coach Ashford from 1951 to 1955. After his graduation, Pearson held positions as an assistant football coach and head golf coach at high schools in Missouri and Illinois. In 1971, he was named the first head football coach at Springfield’s Kickapoo High… Read more »
Robert Penn
Robert Penn – Football Coach – Class of 2014 The tapestry of Bob Penn’s life presents an interwoven pattern of faith, family, friends, and sports. His journey to enshrinement in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame began after his parents, Robert and Inez, moved young Bob and his two sisters from Kansas City, MO to… Read more »
Carl Peterson
In the midst of building the Kansas City Chiefs’ Golden Era of the 1990s and early 2000s, team president and general manager Carl Peterson met a man who was about to build the Golden Era of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. That was then-CEO & Executive Director Jerald Andrews, who invited Peterson to attend… Read more »
Gary Pinkel
Paging Gary Pinkel … you are wanted by the statues … Gary Pinkel. Indeed, had public address announcers of press boxes across the Show-Me State bellowed those words, they would have been met with applause. After all, he is the man who rode off into the sunset in 2015 as the winningest football coach in… Read more »
Plattsburg High Shool 1979 State Championship Football Team
In the summer of 1979, during the hot and humid days north of Kansas City, the football players readying for Plattsburg High School’s season hit a two-week training camp ready to work. In some ways, they could have taken their lunch pails and hardhats to the field daily. After all, they had a job to… Read more »
Ed Podolak
Ed Podolak – Football Ed Podolak was born on a small farm near Atlantic, in Southwest Iowa on September 1, 1947. His father, Joe had just returned from his four years fighting in the Philippines when he married Dorothy Pont, a country school teacher. Neither parent had any history in sporting activities, so it was… Read more »
Dr. E. A. Porter
Dr. Edward Addison “Doc” Porter was a lifelong resident of the Hannibal, Missouri area and a sports enthusiast. While still pursuing his degree at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Porter was a student physician for the athletic teams of Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville. While in that capacity, he became friends… Read more »
Doug Potts
Beginning in 1966 and finishing in 2000 with a record of 213-132-2, Doug Potts coached the Bolivar High School football team for 35 years. A Neosho native, Potts was Football All-Time Letterman at Pittsburg State University (1961-1964) and All-Conference in 1964. Doug was named the Missouri State Football Coach of the Year in 1992 and… Read more »
Warren Powers
The call came in after his first season as a head coach of a major college football program out West. On the other end of the line was the University of Missouri athletic director and a job offer to, in essence, come back home. For Warren Powers, who grew up in Kansas City and had… Read more »