Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Jonathan Johnson Johnson of Abilene High broke the state high school Class 5A record in the 800 meters when he won the event in 1:48.21 in 2001. He then anchored the mile relay to a gold medal, leading the Eagles to the Class 5A state team championship. At Texas...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Inductees, Track & Field
Dean Smith Smith was an all-state running back at Graham and played football and ran track at the University of Texas. He was a halfback on the Longhorns’ team that beat Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl. In 1952, he was a gold medalist on the United States’...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Bruce Land Land of Hawley unofficially broke or tied the 100-yard dash world record seven times during his track career. After earning all-American honors at Cisco Junior College, he ran track at McMurry and is a member of that school’s Hall of Fame. He qualified...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Track & Field
Bill McClure McClure, a 1939 graduate of Abilene High, spent a 47-year career in athletics, beginning first as a coach at Stamford High School and then as an assistant and later head track coach at ACU, leaving to become the head track coach at both South Carolina and...
Mar 18, 2013 | Athlete, Track & Field
Bill Miller Miller, a star in both football and track in high school at Winters and in college at McMurry, won the Class 2A state long jump in 1959. He went on to win NAIA championships in the long jump in 1962 and 1963 and became the first Texan to long jump 26 feet...
Mar 18, 2013 | Coach, Track & Field
Bob Groseclose Groseclose, who grew up in Breckenridge, was the fourth coach from the glory years of the 1950s at Abilene High to join the Big Country Athletic Hall of Fame. Groseclose, who died in 2005 at age 82, won three state championships as track coach at...
