Sean Weatherspoon’s legacy as one of the top defensive players in the history of the University of Missouri football program is secure. But it isn’t the big games or the individual accolades that Weatherspoon remembers or values most about his time in Columbia. “I remember the summer workouts and downtime with my teammates more vividly… Read more »
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Webb City High School Football
Days before Webb City High School football would win its 13th state championship since 1989, coach John Roderique made one thing clear: Winning, especially the dominating way the Cardinals win, never gets old. Clearly, it’s fun, and there are so many reasons why it’s become a way of life in their southwest Missouri community. To… Read more »
Harry Weber
Walk outside Busch Stadium in St. Louis or around Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, and you’ll see his work. Or, drive to the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in Springfield, where you’ll find his largest collection. That is, a collection of bronze busts and statues. For Harry Weber, call it all a labor of love… Read more »
Roger Wehrli
A standout sprinter at King City High, Wehrli was offered only one scholarship to play college football, at the University of Missouri. At the end of his senior year in 1968, Wehrli was picked to ten different All-American teams. He played in the Hula and Senior Bowls, as well as the Coach’s All-Star game. Although stationed… Read more »
“Red” Weir
Harold “Red” Weir was raised in Fayette, Missouri, and was a member of the 1950 Central College basketball team that finished third in the NAIS national tournament. He became a high school coach in Stockton and Eldon, officiating when his team was not playing. Weir joined Snowden-Mize Sporting Goods Co., came to Columbia in the… Read more »
Devin West
In the mid- to late-1990s, after years and years of trying to earn respect, a group of talented athletes converged on Columbia and showed what could be possible for the University of Missouri football team. Among those athletes was a young man from Moberly High School, a running back whose decision to stay in state… Read more »
Jason Whittle
Talk about living a dream. In 1998, three games into an improbable National Football League career, Jason Whittle found himself in a New York Giants uniform and about to play his boyhood team, the Dallas Cowboys – all on ABC’s Monday Night Football. “There’s no way I should have been playing in the NFL,” said… Read more »
Casey Wiegmann
It’s often said of athletes that their most important ability isn’t speed, or strength, or stamina. The most important ability an athlete can have is availability. Perhaps no one in Missouri sports history personifies that belief more than Casey Wiegmann. The Iowa born-and-bred Wiegmann became a folk hero of sorts during his nine total seasons… Read more »
Eric Williams
He was introduced to organized football at a Kansas City Boys Club on 43rd street in the 1960s. That is, despite his mom’s fears of an injury, which were understandable, given Eric Williams was basically 5-foot-nothing, 100-and-nothing. By the time he graduated high school, he was a 6-foot-2, 225-pound wrecking ball. “I always played in… Read more »
Gregg Williams
Longtime National Football League defensive coordinator Gregg Williams certainly hasn’t forgotten his roots. Over the years, his foundation has gifted millions of dollars to school and youth athletics in his hometown of Excelsior Springs. “I always wanted them to know they can do anything in life,” Williams said. Williams is a prime example, having parlayed… Read more »
“Red” Williams
Lorenz C. “Red” Williams was SEMO’s first full-time athletic trainer, serving from 1967 to 1983. Williams worked in that position for 16 years supporting nine men and women’s athletic teams. He mentored and supervised 63 athletic training students during his tenure and was awarded National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) honors for both 20 years and… Read more »
Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson was born and raised in Rigby, Utah and played college football at the University of Utah. The St. Louis Cardinals drafted the speedy running back in 1960 and converted him to a defensive back after he sustained several injuries. As part of this change, Wilson and Coach Drulis devised the safety blitz, which… Read more »
Kellen Winslow, Sr.
Born in East St. Louis, Illinois and playing college ball with the Missouri Tigers and professionally with the San Diego Chargers, Winslow is widely recognized as one of the greatest tight ends in the history of the game. An All-American at Mizzou, Winslow went on to lead the NFL in receptions in 1980 and 1981,… Read more »
Grant Wistrom
A Webb City native, Grant became one of the most feared defenders in Nebraska Cornhusker history. During his college career, the Huskers compiled a 49-2 record from 1994 to 1997, winning three national titles. A first-round selection (Number 6 overall) by the St. Louis Rams in the 1998 NFL Draft, Wistrom played a reserve role… Read more »
Amadee Wohlschlaeger
Nationally, Amadee achieved stature as a sports cartoonist as he spent a half-century drawing St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s wisecracking Page One tradition, The Weatherbird. drawing skills and humor provided portrait likenesses and humorous sports-page editorials. For years, the artist drew first-page cartoons weekly for The Sporting News. For more than 30 years, he provided the color… Read more »
Dr. Marion Wolf
Born in Strafford, Missouri, Dr. Marion Wolf has played a key role in keeping Missouri athletes healthy. Wolf practiced in the Smtih Glynn Callaway Clinic in Springfield from 1975 to 1997. He has served as the Athletic Team Physician and Orthopedic Consultant for Southwest Missouri State University since 1975. He also served as the Athletic… Read more »