February 2021 SASKATOON to April 2021 Newsletter SPORTS (306) 664-6744 Saskatoonsportshalloffame.com HALL Saskatoon OF Sports Hall FAME of Fame on Facebook s President of the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame, I am happy Murphy for your many years of service. McLean and Murphy are Ato bring greetings on behalf o the hardworking volunteers leaving the board this year. Thank you to the members at large who who make up the board of directors. Without their work and are helpful in so many ways. dedication our Hall would not exist. Thank you to Bob Florence and Mark Tennant for continually Hopefully, we are all feeling optimistic with the start of a new year releasing such a well written, researched newsletter on the past, Dana Kidd and the daylight increasing to help us through the winter months. present and future of our sporting community. As it is 2021, I have come to the end of my term as President. I Further information will be provided regarding our 35th induction Hall of Fame president feel truly honoured to have served as the President of the Hall for ceremony and banquet when we have a better understanding of the last three years. I look forward to handing the reins to my what Nov. 6 2021 will be like. Athlete inductee, golf, 2014 successor, Bob Fawcett, and see what comes next for the Hall. Nominations of candidates must be received by April 1 to be Board members returning to keep things running smoothly are considered for induction that year. The three categories are athlete, Bob Fawcett, Lisa Down, Eugene Hritzuk, Jacki Nichol, Anna-beth builder and team. We rely on nominations to recognize and honour Zulkoskey, Don Bates, Phyllis Wilson, Dale Yellowlees, Don Gallo, people in the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame. Kelsie Hendry and myself. Thank you Keith McLean and Noreen For a nomination form, click here: www.saskatoonsportshalloffame.com Line change *Dave Adolph ends his shift of 38 years with Huskies hockey *Enshrined in Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame l Leader in Canadian U SPORTS in career coaching wins in the regular season for men’s hockey with 488. 456 University of Saskatchewan Huskies .... 1993-2021 32 University of Lethbridge Pronghorns ... 1989-92 l At nationals 20 times with the Huskies Three as a student-athlete, once as an assistant coach, 16 as the head coach. l 10 Canada West conference titles with the Huskies Three as a student-athlete, seven as the head coach. l Canada’s coach at the 2003 World University Games in Italy, placing third, and the 2015 World University Games in Spain, placing third. l The game ends early for Adolph as a player in two of the Huskies’ all-time Adolph at a glance highlight wins. Huskies defenceman ..............1977-78, 1979-83, five years In a conference game in 1981-82 in BA, BEd, conference second team all-star Rutherford Rink, *Tim Hodgson scores Huskies assistant coach .........1984-1989, five years with 32 seconds left in regulation time Huskies head coach ...............1993-2001, 28 years and *Randy Wiebe scores the winner Huskie Athletics coach of the year .........................3 in double overtime as the Huskies Canada West men’s hockey coach of the year .....4 defeat the Alberta Golden Bears. U SPORTS men’s hockey coach of the year ..........1 Adolph is one of five Huskies who get Since 1993-94, when Adolph became head coach, 77 student-athletes on the hockey club have averaged at least 75% a game misconduct in a chippy first period. in class and made the academic team in Huskie Athletics; Early in the 1983 Canadian championship 17 have been named athletic All-Canadians in U SPORTS hockey. game in Moncton, won by the Huskies against the Concordia Stingers, Adolph suffers a concussion. He watches the game on a TV screen in the medical clinic. Dave Adolph, above and in the centre on the l Adolph plays defensive back left, is enshrined in the Saskatoon Sports on the Evan Hardy Souls high school football team in 1975-76 and 1976-77. Hall of Fame. He was in his fifth year as a *Bill Seymour, the coach of the Souls defenceman with the Saskatchewan Huskies defensive backs, is an assistant coach on the 1982-83 Huskies hockey team hockey team when it won the Canadian that wins nationals. —Saskatoon StarPhoenix photo university title in 1982-83. l Adolph plays for the Swift Current Legionnaires does homework. Being a teacher at Aden l Wife Bev (Britton) Adolph wins a Canadian midget team, the Saskatoon Blazers juvenile team Bowman Collegiate, he class plans to prepare university championship in track and field in 1981-82 and in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and review for Monday. on the Huskiettes 4x800-metre relay team for Saskatoon Olympics and Swift Current Broncos. with *Teresa Hlady, Lesia Pillipow and Leila Preston. Bev is third in the 4x400 with Hlady, Gwen Wall l After winning a playoff series in Edmonton l Instructor in the Hockey Academy * in 1985, the Huskies are on a charter bus for the trip back to skill development program at Walter Murray and *Janice Zunti. Saskatoon on a Sunday. While the players rest and decom- Collegiate for Grade 9 and 10 students. press, Adolph, at the time an assistant coach with the Huskies, Thank you Hall of Fame sponsors Hall directors l President Dana Kidd l Phyllis Wilson l l Al Anderson’s Source for Sports l Hunter’s Bowling l Past president Keith McLean Dale Yellowlees l Don Bates l Anna-beth Zulkoskey l Members at large l Lisa Down l Cherry Insurance Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon l Bob Fawcett Mary Green l Don Gallo Gerry Heskett l Jerry Shoemaker l Kelsie Hendry Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express l Realty Executives Saskatoon l Eugene Hritzuk Mark Tennant l Noreen Murphy Bob Florence l Jacki Nichol l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l Gl l Tl lH l El l l l l l l l l l l l l l l Nl l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l I l l l l l l l l l F l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l Il l l l l l l l l l l l Yl l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l E l l l l l Where Saskatoon athletes l l l l l Al l l l l l l l l l l l l Ll l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l have been growing strong l l l l L l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l D l l l l l l l l l l l forl morel thanl 100l yearsl l l l l l l l l l *Enshrined in Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l GOLF P SOCCER l*William Kinnearl is froml Scotland, l l l l l SOFTBALLl l l l l l l l l Johnnyl Hayes is 45l when he playsl his l l hits a two-run double and is the winning the home of golf. When he settles in Saska- *Muriel Coben last year of senior soccer, playing some of pitcher as the Ramblers defeat the Clippers to win the best-of- ltoon in 1909l at age 30l he golfs in Saskal - l l l l l l l l l l l l l hisl league gamesl in Kinsmen Parkl in 1958. l l five championship in the Saskatoon Ladies’ Senior Softball League toon in the same place where everybody A native of Belfast, he has been in senior l l l l l l l l in four gamesl in Kinsmenl Park in 1952.l l l l l l l l l l l l else does, in City Park, later known as soccer in Saskatoon since 1933. He has Coben is added to the Edmonton Mortons lineup that same Kinsmen Park. In 1911, because the city mostly played goal, playing for Thistles and l l l l l l l l seasonl and winsl the Canadian lsoftball championship.l l l l l l l l l l l needs land at the north end of the park for United, for Wanderers and Legion —Saskatoon StarPhoenix *William Kinnear She is the lead on a Saskatoon rink with *Donna Paton, nearl Queen Streetl for a hospital,l the Saskatoonl Golf Clubl l l l l l l l —Saskatoonl StarPhoenixl l l l and Corinthians.l His clubl wins the l l l and that wins the na- Johnny Hayes moves to a site near the exhibition grounds.