Walseth, R.M. “Bus”

Clear Lake HS. SDSU. In 1937 he was named the first executive secretary of the South Dakota High School Activities Association, a position he held for 35 years. Before that, he coached at Barnard, Leola and Ipswich. When he retired in 1971, he had devoted 50 years to high school athletics as a coach and […]

Ginn, Ralph

Born July 23, 1907, in Lenox, Iowa. 1925 Lenox H.S. grad. 1931 Tarkio (Mo.) College grad. Was South Dakota State football coach from 1947-68, compiling a 113-89-9 record. In his 22 years at SDSU, his teams won nine conference titles, including back-to-back-to-back titles twice (1953-55 and 1961-63). He coached Brookings High School from 1944-47, going […]

Bauer Hagge, Marlene

First woman named to South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. Born Feb. 16, 1934, in Eureka. Was just 3 years old when she had her first set of golf clubs. Her dad, Dave Bauer, leased the municipal golf course in Aberdeen (then called Hyde Park, now Lee Park) and moved his family to living quarters […]