July/August 2008
Around the Quads
Athletics Hall of Fame Names Second Class
Former NFL players Marty Domres ’69 and Bruce Gehrke ’48 and former NBA player and coach Walt Budko ’48 are among 18 student-athletes included in the second class of inductees to the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame. Also to be honored are two former coaches, two teams, two individuals for special contributions to the athletics program and one former athletics staff member.
The honorees, who will be recognized at a dinner in Low Library on October 2 and at halftime of the Columbia-Princeton football game on Homecoming, October 4, were chosen by a vote of a selection committee of Columbia Athletics affiliates, including alumni, athletics staff and representatives of Columbia’s Varsity ‘C’ Club.
Among the members of the hall’s inaugural class, inducted in 2006, were baseball Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig ’25 and Eddie Collins (Class of 1907), college football legends Sid Luckman ’39 and Lou Little (head coach) as well as former Olympic gold medalist swimmer and Honda-Broderick Award-winner Cristina Teuscher ’00.
Nominees were submitted by the general public in eight categories. The members of the Second Class of the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame are:
Former Male Student-Athletes – Heritage Era (1852–1954)
John Azary ’51, basketball, posthumous
Walt Budko ’48, basketball
Bruce Gehrke ’48, baseball/basketball/football, posthumous
Gene Rossides ’49, football
Bill Sanford ’30, rowing, posthumous
George Shaw ’53, track and field, posthumous
Former Male Student-Athletes – Modern Era (1954–Present)
Rolando Acosta ’79, baseball
Ben Atkins ’93, fencing
Alton Byrd ’79, basketball
Marty Domres ’69, football
Leonard “Buck” Jenkins ’93, basketball
Steve Sirtis ’84, soccer
Russ Warren ’62, football
Former Female Student-Athletes
Stacey Borgman ’98 Barnard, rowing
Ellen Bossert ’86, basketball
Carrie Daly ’84 Barnard, track and field
Janette Kizer-Antiles ’92, tennis
Tzu Moy ’91, fencing
Coach – Heritage Era (1852–1954)
Andy Coakley, head coach of baseball (1915–51), posthumous
Coach – Modern Era (1954–Present)
Irv DeKoff, head coach of fencing (1952–67), posthumous
Teams – Heritage Era (1852–1954)
1950–51 men’s basketball team
Teams – Modern Era (1954–Present)
1983 men’s soccer team
Athletics Staff
Frank Dobbins, equipment manager (1962–98), posthumous
Special Category for Individual Achievement
George Baker, posthumous
Lawrence A. Wien ’25, ’27L, posthumous