![]() ![]() River Hills tennis pro Randall was born in Memphis but was raised in Tupelo where he was a state junior champion and nationally ranked junior. In the NFL, Metcalf played eight seasons, seven with the Chicago Bears. Hunter is now head coach at Mississippi Valley State.Ī Clarksdale native, Metcalf as one of the state’s top football recruits before signing with Ole Miss and becoming one of the school’s most accomplished offensive linemen – All-SEC for two seasons and a consensus All American in 2001. He scored nearly 8,000 points and passed out more than 2,500 assists as a pro. In the NBA, his teams made the playoffs in 12 of his 17 seasons. He signed with Alcorn out of Murrah but quickly transferred to Jackson State where he averaged over 20 points per game for his career and became a first round draft choice. Hunter, who played basketball for Murrah High School in Jackson, was not highly recruited out of high school but became of the most accomplished basketball players in Magnolia State history. He played 16 years of pro basketball, scoring more than 7,000 points and grabbing more than 7,000 rebounds. Dampier, a Monticello native, controlled the lane for State, and then became the 10th player taken in the NBA Draft. His defensive presence in the lane was critical to the 1996 Mississippi State run to the Final Four, the only Magnolia State men’s basketball team to achieve that feat. In four seasons, the Forest Hill native led the Lady Statesmen to 120 victories against only nine defeats as the consummate point guard, making All American three times and eventually being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.ĭampier, two feet taller than Brock, also is an important part of Mississippi basketball history. Listed at four feet, 11 inches, she led Delta State to three national basketball championships in the 1970s with her playmaking and defensive skills. Moving to the Class of 2021, Brock becomes surely the smallest of all MSHOF Inductees. Willis sometimes seemed a tackling machine, winning the Dick Butkus Award as the nation’s best linebacker at Ole Miss and then again in the NFL, one of only two players ever to achieve the feat. At some point, he surely will go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his remarkable career with San Francisco 49ers, where he was a first team All Pro linebacker for five seasons. Willis, the former Ole Miss football All American, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2019. He hired the SEC’s first Black head football coach, Sylvester Croom. He earned the respect of his peers, becoming the longest serving chairman of SEC athletic directors and head of the NCAA’s baseball committee. ![]() State prospered under Templeton’s guidance. Templeton, a former sports information assistant (and, for a while, the golf coach) changed all that. He played two seasons with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams and later became a well-respected dentist in Jackson.ĭennis will be the 73rd Ole Miss representative in the Hall, dating back to the inaugural class of 1961.įollow Ole Miss Football on Twitter OleMissFB) and Facebook ( /OleMissFootball), in addition to Larry Templeton, a State grad and Starkville native, took the job as athletic director in 1987, the school’s athletic department was struggling both on the field and financially with aging facilities. He led the Rebels in rushing, receiving and scoring in 1965 before being drafted in the both the NFL (Atlanta Falcons) and AFL (Buffalo Bills). The Jackson, Mississippi, native still holds the school record for most receptions in a bowl game (9 catches in the 1964 Bluebonnet Bowl). He was the last two-time All-SEC running back at Ole Miss until Deuce McAllister accomplished the same feat. He was a member of the 1963 SEC championship team and co-captain of the 1965 team that went 7-4 and beat Auburn in the Liberty Bowl. ![]() The other members are former Southern Miss and NFL quarterback Brett Favre, Southern Miss and NBA star Clarence Weatherspoon, William Carey basketball coach and athletics director Steve Knight, Mississippi College and NFL running back Fred McAfee, and high school coaching legend Gwen White.ĭennis played running back for the Rebels from 1963-65 and amassed 1,323 career rushing yards, which was fifth-best in the school record books when he graduated. Former Ole Miss running back Mike Dennis will join the large Rebel contingent in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame next year, as the Hall announced its 2015 induction class Thursday.ĭennis is one of six Mississippi greats who will be inducted in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame on Aug. ![]()
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