The Ohio State Varsity "O" Hall of Fame is the athletic hall of fame

Hall of Fame

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 for The Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

. Its purpose is to recognize individuals who have contributed to the honor and fame of the University in the field of athletics

Sport

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.

An athlete must have earned at least one Varsity

Varsity team

In the United States and Canada, varsity sports teams are the principal athletic teams representing a college, university, high school or other secondary school. Such teams compete against the principal athletic teams at other colleges/universities, or in the case of secondary schools, against...

 "O" letter

Varsity letter

A varsity letter is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities. A varsity letter signifies that its winner was a qualified varsity team member, awarded after a certain standard was met.- Description :...

 to be eligible. An athlete is considered for recognition a minimum of five years after the graduation of his or her class. A coach

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

 or member of the athletic department must have served the Ohio State University for at least 15 years to be considered.

Charter Members

The first 23 members of the Varsity "O" Hall of Fame were inducted in September, 1977. These are the names of those charter inductees:

• Howard "Hopalong" Cassady —- football, baseball
• Paul Ebert
  Paul Ebert
  Paul Allen Ebert was a director of the American College of Surgeons and athlete. He had been Chairman of the Departments of Surgery at both Cornell University Medical College and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, as well as the President of the American College of...
  
   —- basketball, baseball
• Wes Fesler
  Wes Fesler
  Wesley Eugene "Wes" Fesler was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He was three-sport athlete at Ohio State University and a consensus first-team selection to the College Football All-America Team three straight years...
  
   —- football, basketball, baseball, football coach
• Ernie Godfrey
  Ernie Godfrey
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   —- football, basketball, football coach
• Chic Harley
  Chic Harley
  Charles William "Chic" Harley was one of the outstanding American football players of the first half of the 20th century and the player who first brought the Ohio State University football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consensus first-team All-America selection and...
  
   —- football, basketball, baseball, track & field
• John Havlicek
  John Havlicek
  John J. "Hondo" Havlicek is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons....
  
   —- basketball, baseball
• Les Horvath
  Les Horvath
  Leslie "Les" Horvath was the 1944 Heisman Trophy winner, who played quarterback and halfback for the Ohio State University.- Early life :He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area....
  
   —- football
• Jimmy Hull
  Jimmy Hull
  James R. "Jimmy" Hull was an American basketball forward who led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the championship game in the first-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Buckeyes finished the season with a 16–7 record, and lost to the Oregon Ducks in the finals...
  
   —- basketball
• Vic Janowicz
  Vic Janowicz
  Victor Felix "Vic" Janowicz was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Ohio State University and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1952 NFL Draft...
  
   —- football
• Ford Konno
  Ford Konno
  Ford Hiroshi Konno is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who swam at McKinley High School and the Ohio State University....
  
   —- swimming
• Jerry Lucas
  Jerry Lucas
  Jerry Ray Lucas was a basketball player from the 1950s to the 1970s, and is now a memory education expert. In 1996, the NBA's 50th anniversary, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in National Basketball Association history...
  
   —- basketball
• Johnny Miner —- basketball

• Jack Nicklaus
  Jack Nicklaus
  Jack William Nicklaus , nicknamed "The Golden Bear", is an American professional golfer. He won 18 career major championships on the PGA Tour over a span of 25 years and is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional golfers of all time. In addition to his 18 Majors, he was runner-up a...
  
   —- golf
• Jesse Owens
  Jesse Owens
  James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the...
  
   —- track & field
• Jim Parker
  Jim Parker (American football)
  James Thomas "Jim" Parker was a college and professional American football player in the 1950s and '60s. He is a member of the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame.-College career:...
  
   —- football
• Al Patnik —- diving
• Mike Peppe —- swimming/diving coach
• George Simpson
  George Simpson (athlete)
  George Sidney Simpson was an American athlete and silver medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Simpson was the first to run 100 yards in 9.4 seconds, but because he used starting blocks, the record was never ratified. He won the 220 yards in both NCAA and AAU in 1930...
  
   —- track & field
• William Smith —- swimming
• Larry Snyder —- track
• Lynn St. John
  Lynn St. John
  Lynn Wilbur "The Saint" St. John was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. The Union City, Pennsylvania native was the head basketball coach at Ohio State University from 1911 to 1919, and served as the school's second athletic director, a...
  
   —- athletic director
• John Wilce
  John Wilce
  John Woodworth "Jack" Wilce was an American football player and coach, physician, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University from 1913 to 1928, compiling a record of 78–33–9...
  
   —- football coach
• Bill Willis
  Bill Willis
  William Karnet Willis was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Willis was one of the first African American football players to play professional football...
  
   —- football, track & field

Members

The Ohio State Varsity "O" Hall of Fame includes the following members:

• Dave Albritton
  Dave Albritton
  Dave Albritton had a long career that spanned three decades and numerous titles and was one of the first high jumpers to use the straddle technique. He was born in Danville, Alabama....
  
  
• Warren Amling
  Warren Amling
  Dr. Warren Eugene Amling was an American football and basketball player, playing for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1944 to 1946. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984....
  
  
• Steve Arlin
  Steve Arlin
  Steven Ralph Arlin is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. In six major league seasons, Arlin pitched for the San Diego Padres and Cleveland Indians .-College Star:...
  
  
• Aldis Berzins
  Aldis Berzins
  Aldis Imants Berzins is a former volleyball player from the United States, who was a member of the American Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics playing opposite of Karch Kiraly.-College career:...
  
  
• John W. Bricker
  John W. Bricker
  John William Bricker was a United States Senator and the 54th Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Brockington
  John Brockington
  John Stanley Brockington is a former American football running back. He was the National Football League's Green Bay Packers' 1st round draft choice out of the Ohio State University, and was the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1971.-College career:Brockington played halfback and fullback for...
  
  
• Paul Brown
  Paul Brown
  Paul Eugene Brown was a coach in American football and a major figure in the development of the National Football League...
  
  
• Earle Bruce
  Earle Bruce
  Earle Bruce is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Tampa , Iowa State University , Ohio State University , the University of Northern Iowa , and Colorado State University , compiling a career college football record of 154–90–2...
  
  
• Bob Brudzinski
  Bob Brudzinski
  Robert Louis Brudzinski is a former American football linebacker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League.-Ohio State:...
  
  
• Keith Byars
  Keith Byars
  Keith Alan Byars is an American sports broadcaster and former American football player in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and New York Jets.-Early life:...
  
  
• Cris Carter
  Cris Carter
  Cristopher D. Carter is a former American football player in the National Football League. He played wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles , the Minnesota Vikings and the Miami Dolphins ....
  
  
• Howard "Hopalong" Cassady
• Jim Cleamons
  Jim Cleamons
  James Mitchell "Jim" Cleamons is a retired American professional basketball player and current coach. He played collegiately at The Ohio State University, and was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th pick of the 1971 NBA Draft...
  
  
• Ollie Cline
  Ollie Cline
  Oliver M. "Ollie" Cline was a college and professional American football player in the 1940s and '50s. He was nicknamed the Blond Bomber.-College career:...
  
  
• Bob Clotworthy
  Bob Clotworthy
  Robert Lynn Clotworthy was a diver from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1952...
  
  
• Neal Colzie
  Neal Colzie
  Cornelius Connie Colzie, better known as Neal Colzie, was an American football defensive back for the Oakland Raiders , Miami Dolphins , and Tampa Bay Buccaneers...
  
  
• John Cook
  John Cook (golfer)
  John Neuman Cook is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and currently plays on the Champions Tour....
  
  
• James Counsilman
  James Counsilman
  James Edward "Doc" Counsilman was an Olympic and hall-of-fame swimming coach from the United States. He is perhaps best known for being the head swimming coach Indiana University from 1957-1990...
  
  
• Tom Cousineau
  Tom Cousineau
  Tom Cousineau is a former American Football linebacker who played three seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Montreal Alouettes from 1979 to 1981, and six seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers from 1982 to 1987...
  
  
• Charles Csuri
  Charles Csuri
  Charles Csuri , aka Chuck Csuri, is a pioneer in the field of computer art and a former All American college football player.-Digital art:...
  
  
• Glenn Davis
• Tippy Dye
  Tippy Dye
  William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye is a noted former college athlete, coach, and athletic director in the United States. As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to their only NCAA Final Four appearance...
  
  
• Paul Ebert
  Paul Ebert
  Paul Allen Ebert was a director of the American College of Surgeons and athlete. He had been Chairman of the Departments of Surgery at both Cornell University Medical College and the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, as well as the President of the American College of...
  
  
• Johnny Edwards
• Bob Ferguson
  Bob Ferguson (American football)
  Robert E. "Bob" Ferguson was an American football running back and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. He is considered by many to be the greatest fullback in the history of the Ohio State University Buckeyes.Ferguson attended Troy High School in Troy, Ohio.Ferguson's first year of...
  
  
• Wes Fesler
  Wes Fesler
  Wesley Eugene "Wes" Fesler was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He was three-sport athlete at Ohio State University and a consensus first-team selection to the College Football All-America Team three straight years...
  
  
• Dave Foley
  Dave Foley (American football)
  David Foley is a former college and professional offensive lineman of the 1960s and '70s.Foley was a three-year starter at offensive tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes under head coach Woody Hayes...
  
  
• Tim Fox
  Tim Fox
  Timothy Richard Fox is a former American Football safety who played for the New England Patriots, San Diego Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams from 1976 to 1986....
  
  
• John Frank
  John Frank
  John G. Frank was an American football player who played tight end in the NFL from 1984 to 1988 and earned two Super Bowl rings.-High school & college:He attended Mt...
  
  
• Eddie George
  Eddie George
  Edward Nathan "Eddie" George, Jr. is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He played for the Tennessee Titans both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers, and spent his final season with the Dallas Cowboys...
  
  
• Sid Gillman
  Sid Gillman
  Sidney "Sid" Gillman was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in...
  
  
• Ernie Godfrey
  Ernie Godfrey
  -External links:...
  
  
• Francisco González
• Randy Gradishar
  Randy Gradishar
  Randy Charles Gradishar is a former college and professional American football linebacker who played in the 1970s and 1980s. Randy Gradishar is currently the Director of Corporate Communications for the Phil Long Dealerships in Colorado...
  
  
• Jack Graf
  Jack Graf
  Jack Graf is a former two-sport athlete at the Ohio State University. In football he was named Big Ten MVP in 1941 and in basketball he served as team captain in 1942....
  
  
• Don Grate
  Don Grate
  Donald "Buckeye" Grate is a former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and a small forward/shooting guard for the Sheboygan Redskins of the NBA...
  
  
• Archie Griffin
  Archie Griffin
  Archie Mason Griffin is a former American football running back. Griffin played seven seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. He is college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner...
  
  
• Tracey Hall
  Tracey Hall
  Tracey Hall, or Tracey Hall Yarbrough, is a former women's basketball player for Ohio State University. She became the Big-Ten's first two time Kodak All-American team member competing in 1987 and 1988...
  
  
• Chic Harley
  Chic Harley
  Charles William "Chic" Harley was one of the outstanding American football players of the first half of the 20th century and the player who first brought the Ohio State University football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consensus first-team All-America selection and...
  
  

• John Havlicek
  John Havlicek
  John J. "Hondo" Havlicek is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons....
  
  
• Woody Hayes
  Woody Hayes
  Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University , Miami University , and Ohio State University , compiling a career college football record of 238–72–10.During his 28 seasons as the head coach of the Ohio...
  
  
• John Hicks
  John Hicks (American football)
  John Charles Hicks Jr. is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He is best remembered for being the last lineman to be runner-up in the vote for the Heisman Trophy.-College career:...
  
  
• Dennis Hopson
  Dennis Hopson
  Dennis Hopson is a retired American professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach at Bowling Green State University...
  
  
• Les Horvath
  Les Horvath
  Leslie "Les" Horvath was the 1944 Heisman Trophy winner, who played quarterback and halfback for the Ohio State University.- Early life :He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area....
  
  
• Bill Hosket, Jr.
  Bill Hosket, Jr.
  Wilmer Frederick Hosket is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'8" forward/center, Hosket played basketball at Belmont High School , where he won an Ohio state championship in 1964, and then played college basketball at the Ohio State University from 1965 to 1968...
  
  
• Bill Hosket, Sr.
  Bill Hosket, Sr.
  Bill Hosket, Sr. was an American basketball player.A 6'5" center, Hosket starred at Stivers High School in Dayton, Ohio, whom he led to three state championships from 1928 to 1930...
  
  
• Jim Houston
  Jim Houston
  James Edward "Jim" Houston is a former American football linebacker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006....
  
  
• Lin Houston
  Lin Houston
  Lindell Lee Houston was an American football guard who played eight seasons in the All-America Football Conference and in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. He is the older brother of Jim Houston.Nicknamed "Mr...
  
  
• Frank Howard
• Bobby Hoying
• Jimmy Hull
  Jimmy Hull
  James R. "Jimmy" Hull was an American basketball forward who led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the championship game in the first-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Buckeyes finished the season with a 16–7 record, and lost to the Oregon Ducks in the finals...
  
  
• Jim Jackson
  Jim Jackson (basketball)
  James Arthur "Jim" Jackson is an American retired professional basketball player. Over his 14 NBA seasons, Jackson was on the active roster of 12 different teams, tying the league record. He is currently a basketball analyst on the Big Ten Network.-High school and college career:Jackson was a 6'6"...
  
  
• Vlade Janakievski
  Vlade Janakievski
  Vlade Janakievski is a former American football placekicker for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He was a walk-on player from the soccer team who handled the placekicking duties for the Buckeyes in the 1977-1980 seasons....
  
  
• Vic Janowicz
  Vic Janowicz
  Victor Felix "Vic" Janowicz was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Ohio State University and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1952 NFL Draft...
  
  
• Patrick Jeffrey
  Patrick Jeffrey
  Patrick S. Jeffrey is a retired diver from the United States. As a college athlete on the Ohio State University swimming & diving team, swept the three diving events at the Big Ten championship his senior year and was named conference Diver of the Year.He twice competed for his native country at...
  
  
• Pepper Johnson
  Pepper Johnson
  Thomas "Pepper" Johnson is a former American football linebacker, and the current defensive line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.-College:...
  
  
• Gomer Jones
  Gomer Jones
  -External links:...
  
  
• Rosie Jones
  Rosie Jones
  Rosie Jones is an American professional golfer, with 13 LPGA Tour career victories and nearly $8.4 million in tournament earnings.-Amateur career:Jones was born in Santa Ana, California...
  
  
• Marty Karow
  Marty Karow
  Martin Gregory Karow [born Karowsky] was an All-American college football player and a professional baseball player....
  
  
• Andy Katzenmoyer
  Andy Katzenmoyer
  Andrew Warren Katzenmoyer is a former professional American football player and the first Butkus Award-winning middle linebacker to play for the Ohio State Buckeyes...
  
  
• Clark Kellogg
  Clark Kellogg
  Clark Clifton Kellogg, Jr. is the VP of player relations for the Indiana Pacers as well as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS Sports and former player in the National Basketball Association.-High School:...
  
  
• Rex Kern
  Rex Kern
  Rex William Kern is a former American football player. He played quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1968 to 1970, and played professional football in the National Football League at defensive back for the Baltimore Colts and Buffalo Bills...
  
  
• Ford Konno
  Ford Konno
  Ford Hiroshi Konno is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who swam at McKinley High School and the Ohio State University....
  
  
• Jim Lachey
  Jim Lachey
  James Michael Lachey is a former American football offensive tackle who played for ten seasons in the National Football League with the San Diego Chargers, the Los Angeles Raiders and the Washington Redskins from 1985 to 1995, missing the 1993 season with a knee injury.Lachey graduated from St...
  
  
• Dick LeBeau
  Dick LeBeau
  Charles Richard “Dick” LeBeau is a National Football League Hall of Fame defensive back. He is currently the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator and is considered to be one of the greatest defensive coordinators of all time. He spent 14 years in the NFL as a player with the Detroit Lions and...
  
  
• Jerry Lucas
  Jerry Lucas
  Jerry Ray Lucas was a basketball player from the 1950s to the 1970s, and is now a memory education expert. In 1996, the NBA's 50th anniversary, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in National Basketball Association history...
  
  
• Kelly McCormick
  Kelly McCormick
  Kelly Anne McCormick is a retired female diver from the United States. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, winning a silver and a bronze medal in the Women's 3m Springboard event.McCormick also claimed gold in the same event at the 1987 Pan American Games...
  
  
• James Allen McDonald
  James Allen McDonald
  -External links:...
  
  
• Jamie Macoun
  Jamie Macoun
  Jamie Neil Macoun is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played parts of seventeen seasons in the National Hockey League....
  
  
• Meg Mallon
• Jim Marshall
  Jim Marshall (American football)
  James "Jim" Lawrence Marshall played college football at the Ohio State University. He left school before his senior year, and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was then drafted in the 4th round of the 1960 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns...
  
  
• Tom Matte
  Tom Matte
  Thomas Roland Matte was an American football player who played quarterback in college and primarily running back in the NFL in the 1960s and 1970s and earned a Super Bowl Ring. He attended Shaw High School in East Cleveland and is an Eagle Scout...
  
  
• Rufus Mayes
  Rufus Mayes
  Rufus Lee Mayes was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Ohio State University and high school football for Toledo Macomber.Rufus died Jan. 1, 1990 at age 42...
  
  
• Fred "Curly" Morrison
• Keo Nakama
  Keo Nakama
  Keo Nakama was an American swimmer.Nakama was born in the town of Puʻunene, Hawaii on the island of Maui. His swimming career included a world record 20:29 in the mile swim, Big Ten Conference titles at Ohio State, and numerous national and international victories...
  
  
• Jack Nicklaus
  Jack Nicklaus
  Jack William Nicklaus , nicknamed "The Golden Bear", is an American professional golfer. He won 18 career major championships on the PGA Tour over a span of 25 years and is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional golfers of all time. In addition to his 18 Majors, he was runner-up a...
  
  
• Tom Nieporte
  Tom Nieporte
  Thomas Nieporte is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s.Nieporte grew up in the Cincinnati suburb of North College Hill, Ohio. He attended the Ohio State University and was a distinguished member of the golf team, winning the NCAA Championship in 1951...
  
  
• Jim Otis
  Jim Otis
  James Lloyd "Jim" Otis is a former college and professional American football running back.-College career:Otis was a fullback for the Ohio State University Buckeyes from 1967-69. He led the team in rushing every year of his college career...
  
  

• Jesse Owens
  Jesse Owens
  James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the...
  
  
• Yoshinobu Oyakawa
  Yoshinobu Oyakawa
  Yoshinobu "Yoshi" Oyakawa was a backstroke swimmer from the United States, who won the 100m Backstroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He is considered to be the last of the great "straight-arm-pull" backstrokers....
  
  
• Pandel Savic
  Pandel Savic
  Pandel Savic is a former American football player, starting at quarterback for two years with the Ohio State Buckeyes. He is of Macedonian-American origin from the village of Drago....
  
  
• Jim Parker
  Jim Parker (American football)
  James Thomas "Jim" Parker was a college and professional American football player in the 1950s and '60s. He is a member of the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame.-College career:...
  
  
• Chris Perry
  Chris Perry (golfer)
  James Christopher Perry is an American professional golfer. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.-Amateur career:...
  
  
• Ted Provost
  Ted Provost
  Ted R. Provost is a former star high school, university and professional football player.As a high school athlete at Fairless High School he lettered three seasons as a quarterback and defensive back. He was also outstanding in basketball and track...
  
  
• Kevin Randleman
  Kevin Randleman
  Kevin Christopher Randleman is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter and a former UFC heavyweight champion. Randleman's background is in Collegiate wrestling. Wrestling at 177 pounds, Randleman was a two time Division I NCAA Champion for The Ohio State University...
  
  
• Michael Redd
  Michael Redd
  Michael Wesley Redd is an American professional basketball player who currently is a free agent. He has most recently played for the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, where he attended West High School. He also was a member of the U.S...
  
  
• Butch Reynolds
  Butch Reynolds
  Harry "Butch" Reynolds is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 meter dash. He held the world record for the event for eleven years with his personal best time of 43.29 seconds set in 1988. That year he was the silver medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and a...
  
  
• Arnie Risen
  Arnie Risen
  Arnold D. Risen is a retired American basketball player.A 6'9" center from the Ohio State University, he led the Buckeyes to two straight Final Four appearances....
  
  
• Don Scott
  Don Scott (American football)
  Donald E. Scott was a star of American football. He was a two-time All-America quarterback at the Ohio State University. He died on October 1, 1943 when his bomber crashed while he was training as a pilot in England during World War II.-High school star:...
  
  
• Mike Sensibaugh
  Mike Sensibaugh
  James Michael "Mike" Sensibaugh is a former American football safety in the National Football League. He played eight seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Cardinals...
  
  
• George Simpson
  George Simpson (athlete)
  George Sidney Simpson was an American athlete and silver medalist at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Simpson was the first to run 100 yards in 9.4 seconds, but because he used starting blocks, the record was never ratified. He won the 220 yards in both NCAA and AAU in 1930...
  
  
• Joey Sindelar
  Joey Sindelar
  Joseph Paul Sindelar is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Champions Tour.Sindelar was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky while his father was serving in the Army, but has lived in New York for most of his life...
  
  
• Tom Skladany
  Tom Skladany
  Thomas Edward Skladany was an American football punter with a six-year career in the National Football League from 1978 to 1983. Skladany was a three-time All-American at The Ohio State University—. He was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1981 season.Simmons....
  
  
• Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (golfer)
  Christopher McClain Smith is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour.Smith was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Ohio State University, where he was a four-time All-Conference selection in the Big Ten from 1988 to 1991, and an All-America selection as a...
  
  
• Katie Smith
  Katie Smith
  Katherine May "Katie" Smith is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA. Her primary position is shooting guard, although she sometimes plays small forward or point guard. She is the all time leading scorer in women's professional basketball, having notched over 7000 points in both...
  
  
• William Smith
• Matt Snell
  Matt Snell
  Matt Snell was the American Football League's New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin's first coup, prior to his 1965 acquisition of Joe Namath...
  
  
• Tim Spencer
• Chris Spielman
  Chris Spielman
  Charles Christopher "Chris" Spielman is a former American football player and is currently an analyst for ESPN's coverage of college football games.-Football career:...
  
  
• Lynn St. John
  Lynn St. John
  Lynn Wilbur "The Saint" St. John was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. The Union City, Pennsylvania native was the head basketball coach at Ohio State University from 1911 to 1919, and served as the school's second athletic director, a...
  
  
• Floyd Stahl
  Floyd Stahl
  Floyd S. Stahl was an American collegiate athletic coach, serving in many coaching and administrative positions at Harvard University and the Ohio State University....
  
  
• Jim Stillwagon
  Jim Stillwagon
  Jim Stillwagon is a former all star American college football player and Canadian Football League player.Stillwagon was a three-year starter with the Ohio State Buckeyes. He was a consensus All-America selection as a junior and senior, and won the Outland Trophy and was the first-ever winner of...
  
  
• Giovanni Strassini
• Korey Stringer
  Korey Stringer
  Korey Damont Stringer was an American football player who died from complications brought on by heat stroke, during training camp in Mankato, Minnesota while in training camp with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.-College career:Stringer was born in Warren, Ohio and attended...
  
  
• Jack Tatum
  Jack Tatum
  John David Tatum was an American football defensive back who played ten seasons from 1971 through 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers in the National Football League...
  
  
• Fred Taylor
• Steve Tovar
  Steve Tovar
  Steven Eric Tovar is a former college and professional American football linebacker and a former football coach at the University of Kansas.-College career:...
  
  
• George Trautman
  George Trautman
  George M. "Red" Trautman was an American baseball executive and college men's basketball coach.-Ohio State:...
  
  
• Jeff Uhlenhake
  Jeff Uhlenhake
  Jeffrey Alan Uhlenhake is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, and the Washington Redskins, and started 112 out of 119 games....
  
  
• Chris Ward
  Chris Ward (American football)
  Christopher Lamar James Ward is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Ohio State University....
  
  
• Paul Warfield
  Paul Warfield
  Paul Dryden Warfield is a former professional American football wide receiver in the 1960s and 1970s known for his speed, fluid moves, grace, jumping ability and hands.- Football career :...
  
  
• Tom Weiskopf
  Tom Weiskopf
  Thomas Daniel Weiskopf is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. His most successful decade was the 1970s, and he won 16 PGA Tour titles between 1968 and 1982. After winding down his tournament career, Weiskopf has become a noted golf course...
  
  
• Mal Whitfield
  Mal Whitfield
  Malvin "Mal" Greston Whitfield is a former American athlete, a double winner of 800 m at the Olympic Games...
  
  
• John Wilce
  John Wilce
  John Woodworth "Jack" Wilce was an American football player and coach, physician, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Ohio State University from 1913 to 1928, compiling a record of 78–33–9...
  
  
• Herb Williams
  Herb Williams
  Herbert L. Williams is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association for eighteen seasons from 1981 to 1999. Williams served as the interim head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks...
  
  
• Bill Willis
  Bill Willis
  William Karnet Willis was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Willis was one of the first African American football players to play professional football...
  
  
• Blaine Wilson
  Blaine Wilson
  Blaine Carew Wilson is an American gymnast from Columbus, Ohio.Wilson won his first World Championships medal at the 2003 Worlds when he helped the team to a silver-medal finish. Months later, at the 2004 Visa American Cup, Wilson tore his left biceps tendon, and vowed to return for the 2004...
  
  
• Gust Zarnas
  Gust Zarnas
  Gustave Constantine Zarnas was a former college football All-American and professional football player....
  
  

External links

• Official website
  • List of inducted Men
  • List of inducted Women