(Story taken from the Millsaps College website)
JACKSON, Miss. - Former Millsaps
College men's basketball coach John Stroud highlights the
six-person 2009 Induction Class for the Mississippi Sports Hall of
Fame that was announced at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame
& Museum.
Stroud, the most successful coach in Millsaps' history and the
all-time scoring leader in Ole Miss men's basketball history, as
well as the number three scorer all-time in the SEC and Robert
Morgan, who retired after 38 years in 2006 as the longest serving
director of a PGA tournament in America, round out the class.
Former defensive stars Tyrone Keys, an All-SEC player at
Mississippi State and a member of the 1985 Super Bowl champion
Chicago Bears and Natchez, Miss., native and four-time Pitt
All-American Hugh Green, the 1980 Heisman Trophy runner-up, the
highest Heisman finish ever for a pure defensive player, are joined
by college and NFL defensive coaching mastermind Jim Carmody in the
Class of 2009.
Coincidentally, Carmody is one of two former Southern Mississippi
head coaches included among the 2009 honorees. Jeff Bower, the
second winningest coach in USM football history, is the other
inductee.
The six will be inducted at the 47th Annual BancorpSouth
Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet on July 31,
2009.
Officials from BancorpSouth and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame
also announced at the press conference the extension of the Tupelo,
MS-based bank’s title sponsorship of the induction banquet
weekend through 2012.
With the addition of the Class of 2009, there will be 257 members
in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
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