(November 24, 1944 – September 5, 2020) He is the man who made the madness. Tom Jernstedt has lived an incredible career in athletic management including helping to grow the NCAA basketball tournament into the spectacle it is today. Jernstedt came of age in Washington County farm country in the early 1960s. He was a..Read More
(November 2, 1936 – July 3, 2020) Bob Gill had an early love for football. But it wasn’t until his 1953 senior season at Jefferson High School that he excelled. As Tom DeSylvia’s first quarterback, Bob had an all-star season as the play caller and passer. It earned him a Shrine game selection and a..Read More
(Jan. 4, 1914 – Sep. 22, 1989) A native of Portland, George Yerkovich, has combined distinguished years of service in sports with a notable career in politics. He was four times elected auditor for the City of Portland, attended Portland’s Washington High School and Southern Oregon College where he participated in three sports. At Southern..Read More
Jerry O’Malley served on many Amateur Athletic Union and U.S. Olympic committees. He was the Olympic Fundraising Chairman for the State of Oregon from 1963 through 1976. He was a founding member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and on its Board of Directors.
The most successful high school track and field coach in the state’s history, winning nine state championships and finishing second once from 1948 through 1957. Newland was an all-Southern Oregon Conference quarterback two years, an all-conference guard in basketball three years, and a two-time state high jump champion. Newland won numerous honors for athletics administration…Read More
Ruben T. Ross was a three-year track letterman and standout at the University of Oregon from 1926 to 1928 for coach Bill Hayward. He participated in the U.S. Olympic Track & Field trials in 1928. He was a co-founder of the Oregon Empire Athletic Foundation that evolved into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in..Read More
A native of Laurel, Oregon and a 1930 graduate of Estacada High School, Harold Taylor founded Taylor Electric Supply with a four-person staff more than 30 years ago and now employs 115 people in Southeast Portland. His company sponsors Junior, American Legion, and City League Baseball and Pop Warner Football. The baseball field at Rex..Read More
(Nov. 15, 1914 – Sep. 20, 2002) Athlete…sports official…organizer…journalist. The tags all fit when applied to Salem’s own Orland “Al” Lightner. Born in Colorado, he attended grade and high school in Stockton, California and later attended Compton Junior College where he captained the baseball team which competed against major league great Jackie Robinson. He signed..Read More
(May 18, 1886 – Aug. 15, 1975) L.H. Gregory was the sports editor and a columnist for the Oregonian for 52 years from 1921-1973. He has been honored by the National Hall of Fame, Los Angeles Times in 1955, won the Amos Voorhies Award by Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in 1962, and countless sports writing..Read More
Tournament Golf Foundation is a group of 40 area businessmen and their wives that have been bringing the LPGA Tournament to Portland for over 16 years. The organization has raised $1.4 million in prize money and over $600,000 in charity contributions since 1972. This group works every year to involve sponsors, sell tickets, and run..Read More