Callahan, Dick

A 1960 Sioux Falls Washington High grad, Callahan was a starter on the 1963 Nebraska football team that was ranked sixth in the nation, went 10-1 and was the Big Eight and Orange Bowl champion. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound Callahan had eight receptions for a team-high 157 yards during the regular season as the Cornhuskers won […]

Charles, Wilson

Born in Green Bay, Wis. Flandreau High School. Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kan. University of New Mexico. An Oneida Indian, Charles won the AAU national decathlon title in 1930. In the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, Charles led in the decathlon after the first day only to finish fourth. His Olympic efforts: 100 (11.2), long […]

Colburn, Lee

Perhaps the greatest basketball player in South Dakota State history, Colburn probably was the most exciting as well. The Brookings High grad was all-state in 1968 and ’69 as the Bobcats won the state “A” title in ’68 and were runners-up in ’69. Colburn, who set the school single-game scoring record with 38 points, was […]

Collins, Dave

Rapid City (RC Stevens High School, ‘71). Had the longest big-league career of any South Dakotan. Perhaps the fastest player in all of baseball during his big-league career, the outfielder played for eight teams over 16 years (1975-90): California, Seattle, Cincinnati (twice), the New York Yankees, Toronto, Oakland, Detroit and St. Louis. It was in […]

Auch, Jo (Haase)

1978 Scotland/1982 USD graduate. JoAnn (Haase) Auch was one of the first women scholarship athletes at USD (basketball and softball) and in South Dakota. Olivet native who was the state’s first Class B three-time, first-team, all-state high school girls’ basketball player. At Scotland, she was a four-year starter who had a career 1,145 points and […]

Collin (Cornie), Conrad

The Huron High and 1934 Creighton University grad captained both the basketball and football teams at Creighton (the only CU athlete to captain two sports at the same time). In 1933, he was an All-America selection in basketball after leading the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring (he averaged 9.5 points a game for all games […]