For years as a sports fan, he saw when a coach would call the number of the last man on the bench. Chad Moller just didn’t realize that, while in college, it would be his number called. By the sports information director (SID) at the University of Missouri. Back in 1992, with the football season… Read more »
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Derland Moore
Derland Moore was born in October 7, 1951 in Malden, MO. He attended Poplar Bluff High School and played varsity football for three years, 1966-1968. In addition to football, he competed in track, throwing the shot and discus. He was offered a track scholarship to the University of Oklahoma but he was a football player… Read more »
Brock Olivo
From the back lots of Hermann to legendary status at the University of Missouri, a career in the NFL, Brock Olivo left his mark at every level in football. Starting at Hermann High School, Olivo’s transfer to St. Francis Borgia Regional High School in Washington came as Olivo hit a rising trajectory. As a senior,… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Medford “Med” Park
Medford Park grew up in Lexington, Missouri. He attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington from 1947 to 1951 and was a star athlete. Park then went on to become an All-American basketball player for the University of Missouri. A 6’2″ guard/forward, he played five seasons (1955–1960) in the National Basketball Association as a member of… Read more »
Rickey Paulding
Rickey Paulding started playing basketball in Detroit, took a turn to Columbia, Mo., and a journey in Europe ended in Oldenburg, Germany. Along the way, he became one of the best basketball players to ever play for the Missouri Tigers, as proven by being named to the Mizzou All-Century team. After his college days ended,… Read more »
Yvette Buhlig Pearce
Sports is full of funny stories, and Yvette Buhlig Pearce has two great ones. At the state volleyball tournament in 1984, a University of Missouri coach, not knowing she was a freshman, asked Santa Fe High School coach Charlie Bock where Yvette was going to school next year. “I hope back at Santa Fe!” Bock… Read more »
Anthony Peeler
In sports, rare is the athlete who makes people stop what they’re doing – even it’s important – and pause in awe. Sure, in basketball, there are dunkers and shooters and slick passers and what not. But about once a generation along comes somebody who does it all and does it with authority, leaving the… 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 »
Dan Pippen
Pippen was a farmboy from Waynesville, Missouri, who became an All Big 6 and All American basketball player at the University of Missouri. He later captained the 1952 United States Olympic team that won the gold medal in Helsinki. He played all eight games. After Pippin graduated from the University of Missouri he went to… Read more »
Richard Poe
Sometimes, the best plans don’t work out. Which is for the best. Just ask Richard Poe. In 1972, the former University of Missouri golfer detoured away from a law degree and life as an attorney by throwing everybody a curveball. Instead, he took on the role of the head golf professional at the brand-new Country… 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 »
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 »
Howard Richards
When he was younger, he grew up looking up the family tree at Uncle Ernie McMillan, an offensive lineman of the National Football League’s St. Louis Football Cardinals from 1961 to 1974, even though he loved baseball more. For Howard Richards, however, everything changed in the mid-1970s when Leon Anton, the football coach at St. Louis’ Southwest… Read more »
Johnny Roland
A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, Johnny Roland played college football at the University of Missouri from 1962 to 1965, winning 3 All-Big Eight Conference honors before being named an All American his final year. The 1966 NFL Rookie of the Year, Roland played for seven seasons with the Cardinals and became the franchise’s leading… Read more »