Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 22, 1994 TAG: 9404220062
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff and Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Miller, a one-time president of the hall of fame, coached basketball teams that won the Southern Conference championship at VMI and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference champion at Hampden-Sydney. He also coached at VMI, Washington and Lee and Richmond.
Wade, from Martinsville, led Emory & Henry to a 24-6 record from 1966-68 and was a member of five championship teams for Montreal in the CFL. He was the Grey Cup's most valuable player in 1970, 1975 and 1977.
This year's other inductees include Jim Coates, who pitched for the New York Yankees and five other major-league baseball teams, and Nellie Catlett, a four-sport star at VMI in the 1930. Chosen posthumously were Hugh Stephens, a former Randolph-Macon player, coach and administrator, and Lou Plummer, a track star at William and Mary who coached at Old Dominion.
Judy Bray, representing the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame at a luncheon meeting of the Salem Rotary Club on Wednesday, said membership guidelines call for an inductee to have been retired for at least five years and either to have lived in Virginia or played in the state.
Bray, once affiliated with an LPGA event in Portsmouth, has been asked by the Sports Hall of Fame to organize the Bell Atlantic Yellow Pages Celebrity Golf Tournament on June 13 at Ford's Colony in Williamsburg.
"The field will include a majority of our hall of famers and also incorporate national sports figures," Bray said.
National figures who have committed to the tournament include Henry Aaron, Lawrence Taylor, Julius Erving and Johnny Bench.
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