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Show ilfee, BMrc!l mm& to COoBD off FoiiG Intermountaln Junior College Col-lege Tournament both years. Gillins was named to the tournament all star team both years. His second year at BAC was the year Linford started football. Gillins was team captain and quarterback of the first team. Since graduation he has been involved for many years in amateur athletics of all sports in Beaver County. He coached the Miiford High School basketball team one year. Gillins has also been involved in-volved in numerous civic activities, including serving serv-ing as mayor of Miners ville for 12 years and acting on local water and dairy boards for ten years. The first football coach at what is now Southern Utah State College and the quarterback quar-terback - captain of that first team will become the charter members of SUSC 's Athletic Hall of Fame in ceremonies February 14. H.B. "Tuff" Linford, who introduced football to what was then the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural College in 1928, and Clarence 'Ty' Gillins, who lettered "in both basketball and football for BAC, will be the initial inductees into the newly created hall ofiame. Linford is a retired coach and athletic administrator who now lives in Sandy and raises mink. Gillins is a lifelong resident ofMlners-ville; ofMlners-ville; has recently retired from a farming and ranching ranch-ing operation. They will be guests of honor at an open house from 5:30 until 7 p.m. at the Family Living Center in the SUSC Science Building. The public is encouraged to meet the two honorees at the open house. Later that evening they will be formally inducted into the hall of fame at ceremonies during halftime of the SUSC basketball game against Fort Lewis College. Nominations will be accepted ac-cepted annuallyformember-ship annuallyformember-ship in the hall of fame, according to Steve Lunt, SUSC athletic director. Anyone Any-one may nominate, but names must be in our hands by Dec. 1 of each year. "We are especially pleased pleas-ed to meet the initial presentations pres-entations to Mr. Linford and Mr. Gillins. Each of them typifies in a special way the spirit of SUSC athletics." Clarence "Ty" Gillins was captain of the BAC basketball bas-ketball team during both the 1927-28 and 1928-29 seasons. sea-sons. The team won the |
