70 All-A mericans | Four Academic All-A mericans | Five-Time LSC Division Cha mpionships | LSC Cha mpions 2001, 2009, 2013
TARLETON ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
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The football program is well represented in Tarleton’s Athletics Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame, which was debuted in 1980,
currently consists of 150 former Tarleton athletic greats, including 64 former football players, two legendary football coaches and
two full Texan football teams. Here’s a listing (sorted by years inducted) of the inductees with ties to the football program:
PLAYER
T-Bone Winters
Roy Hudspeth
Al Jennings
Duck Marr
Jess Davis
Jude Smith
Pence Dacus
Jack Jones
Webb Bishop
Jerry Flemmons
Leon Blakeney
John Riggs
Pat Ballow
Richard Dale Smith
J.D. McMahon
Bunt Adams
W.J. Wisdom (Coach)
Max Menzies
Hugh Wolfe
Clifford Funderburk
Lloyd Corder
Randy Winkler
Monty Montgomery
Henry Todd
Ed Pettitt
Harlan Wunsch
Zelna Compton
Ernie Pannell
James Coble
Theon Thetford
Tally Neal
Bobby Cavazos
Clyde Noonkester
Rob Barnett
Walter Moegelin
Charles High
Charles Grooms
Ricky Bush
Gene Ward
Taylor Virdell
Tommy Tinkler
Wayne Schumacher
Carleton “Gene” Hardin
Johnny Gann
Joe Worsham
YEARS PLAYED/
YEAR
COACHED INDUCTED
1913-15
1980
1917-22
1980
1922-26
1980
1925-26
1980
1925-29
1980
1934-37
1980
1949-50
1980
1949-50
1980
1953-55
1980
1954-56
1980
1955-56
1980
1960-63
1980
1963-66
1980
1965-68
1980
1966-68
1980
1917-21
1981
1920-35
1981
1923-26
1981
1931-33
1981
1935-36
1981
1949-50
1981
1962-66
1981
1917-21
1982
1933-35
1982
1964-65
1982
1965-69
1982
1919-23
1983
1935-36
1983
1949-50
1983
1955-56
1983
1975-78
1983
1949-50
1984
1956-58
1984
1958-59
1984
1964-67
1985
1975-78
1985
1975-78
1985
1979-82
1986
1953-55
1987
1974-77
1987
1936-38
1990
1975-78
1990
1950-51
1993
1974-77
1994
1967-70
1996
PLAYER
Billy Joe Easter
Steve Fieszel
Terry Gambill
Gaylon Bowser
Joe Gillespie (Coach)
Danny David
Mike Baskin
Eric Lugo
Dan Smalley
Carl Pleasant
Dennis Estelle
Robert Ivey
Rodney Webb
Kevin Vickers
Chad Cole
Craig Hancock
Mike A. Myres
Mike Myres
James Dearth
Krayles Banks
J.W. Boren
Eddie Washington
1977 Texan Football Team
1978 Texan Football Team
YEARS PLAYED/
YEAR
COACHED INDUCTED
1975-78
1997
1975-78
1997
1980-83
1998
1984-87
1999
1973-82
2000
1986-87
2001
1983-86
2002
1987-90
2004
1975-78
2005
1974-78
2006
1983-84
2006
1986-88
2007
1986-89
2007
1995-97
2008
1995-98
2011
1984-86
2011
1956-58
2012
1984-88
2012
1995-98
2012
1975-78
2013
1999-02
2013
1990-91
2014
1977
2015
1978
2015
2012 Tarleton Athletics Hall of Fame inductee James Dearth
Tarleton State Football Record Book