ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 5, 1997 TAG: 9703050068
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
Former Virginia Tech basketball star Allan Bristow and Bobby Ross, a football and baseball star at VMI, are among a class of eight 1997 inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
The eight will be inducted May 2 at the Hall's annual awards dinner.
Besides Bristow and Ross, both Richmond natives, the others to be enshrined are former Emory & Henry basketball star and Petersburg High coach Bob Kilbourne; former All-Pro lineman Roger Brown; Donny Floyd Fales, a top-ranked tennis star in the 1960s; Bob Holland, a multiple winner of the U.S. surfing championship; Henry Hucles, the basketball coach of Virginia Union's ``Dream Team'' from 1939-42; and Robbye King Youel, seven-time winner of the Virginia women's golf title.
Bristow led the Hokies to an NIT championship in 1973 before spending a decade playing in the NBA. He coached the Charlotte Hornets for five seasons after serving in an executive capacity for the club. He recently was named vice president of operations for the Denver Nuggets.
Ross was named head coach of the NFL's Detroit Lions this year, after five seasons with San Diego. The VMI alumnus guided the Chargers to Super Bowl XXIX, and took Georgia Tech to a share of the national championship in 1990. He also was a baseball star for the Keydets.
Kilbourne owned the state college scoring record for more than a decade after he finished his E&H career in 1942. A Big Stone Gap native, he won 261 basketball games as coach at Petersburg, then spent a decade as the school's AD.
Brown was part of the ``Fearsome Foursome'' for the Los Angeles Rams. The Surry County native was named All-Pro nine times.
Fales, of Arlington, was a tennis star at William and Mary and from 1960-66 was ranked among the top 10 nationally by the USTA.
Holland, a Virginia Beach native, won national surfing championships on the West and East coasts. He helped organize the East Coast championships held annually at Virginia Beach.
Hucles' Virginia Union teams won three consecutive CIAA titles. He coached four sports and was athletic director at the Richmond school.
Youel won seven state women's golf titles between 1963 and '72 and was runner-up four other times.
Tickets for the Hall of Fame dinner and ceremony are $30 and available through the Hall's office: P.O. Box 370, Portsmouth, 23705.
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