Ashley, Jim

Born June 23, 1902, in Hawarden, Iowa. Moved to Sioux Falls in 1916. Graduated from Washington High in 1920. Ashley was the first person to put an organized sports section in an area newspaper (in 1925), and he served as the Argus Leader’s sports editor for 20 years. Ashley worked at the Argus Leader for […]

Whisler, Bill

Yankton High School. 1962 Iowa grad. Drafted in ninth round by Washington Redskins in 1961 but never played in NFL. Played 10 years as a 6-3, 245-pound defensive lineman in the CFL, mostly for Coach Bud Grant and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Whisler was often an all-CFL pick and he played on a Grey Cup […]

McGrann, Tom

Watertown High School. Minnesota. The 6-foot-8 McGrann led Watertown to its first state basketball title in 1959, scoring a tourney-record 32 points in the finals against Lead, a record that stood for 30 years. He was named to the Senior Scholastic magazine national high school All-America team and was chosen to play in a Midwest […]

Donohue, Phil

Sioux City (Trinity High School 1936). Notre Dame 1940. Born July 11, 1918. Donohue has been one of the state’s finest golfers since his first tourney in South Dakota, in 1949, when he won the state match-play at age 30. He was also state champ in 1960 and ’61 and was runner-up in ’51 and […]