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May 30 ceremonies plannedThree area sports greats to be inducted into HallMARQUETTE — Ten men, including three from the area, will be inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame at the 2l8t annual induction banquet Saturday, May 30, at Northern Michigan University.The three area notables to be iadiicted at the 6 p.m. (EST) dinner in the Great Lakes Room of the Don H. Bottum University Center are Trout Creek’s Bob Gale, Ontonagon’s Francis Guil-bault and Ironwood’s Milton Krznarich.Tickets for the dinner are $12 per person and may be purchased at the door or by calling Gil Heard at 228-8894, or Gildo Canale at 228-8418.Krznarich began basketball and football officiating in 1950. His basketball duties included the 1966 State Class A Championship game. Krznarich was an all-conference eager and team captain in 1950 at the University of Wisconsin-Superior after being the “MVP” at Gogebic Community College prior to World War II. He coached at Watersmeet and Ironwood Catholic High Schools, pitched baseball in the Northem-Wisconsin-Michigan League and was a slow-pitch softball pitcher well into his 60s.Gale was one of the U.P.’s all-time leading scorers and led his Trout Creek team to the 1966 state finals, scoring 40 points before fouling out in the championship game. That year, Gale’s team averaged 96.5 points a game, which is believed to a state record.Gale finished his career scoring over 2,000 points. An off-the-bench player later at Michigan State, Gale scored the winning basket against Ohio Stae on national television in his final game.A graduate of Ontonagon High School, Guilbault’s high school basketball teams have captured three Ohio state championships and won 501 games. His St. Henry High School cagers have put together 26 consecutive winning seasons, with never more than eight losses, and Guilbault’s winning percentage in 30 seasons stands at 75 percent. As a football player at Ontonagon High School, he scored 103 points in his senior year.Others being inducted are:—Bruce Elmblad, of L’Anse, who earned nine varsity letters at the U.S. Military Academy, played one year of football and basketball at Michigan Tech and earned 12 letters at L’Anse High School.—Charles “Chuck” Greenlund, of Iron River, the only coach in the history of Michigan high school athletics to take teams to state finals in both basketball and football and whose 1977West Iron County High School football team reached the state finals, as did his ’85 and ’90 basketball teams.—The late John Hammes, of Newberry, a three-sport athlete at Michigan State at the time of World War I, who was named to Walter Eckersall’s All-Western football team after being described as “the best defensive back in the West today.”—The late Tommy Hughlitt, of Escanaba, a football and baseball letterman at the University of Michigan, who was a three-year quarterback in football and the team’s “MVP” in 1914 despite having never played the sport in high school.—William Waytulonis, of Crystal Falls, a high school, college and semi-pro athlete and coach, who was an All-U.P. back in football at Crystal Falls, as well as a basketball player and track man.—Leonard “Oakie” Brumm, a three-sport athlete at the University of Michigan, where he was a three-year letter winnner in hockey and later became a play-er-coach of several semi-pro hockey teams.—Karl Dickson, of Escanaba, who introduced Little League baseball to Escanaba and to the U.P. in 1951, who served as U.P. district administrator for 30 years and who has been called “Mr. Little League” of the U.P.
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Ironwood Daily Globe
Ironwood, Michigan, US
Sat, May 23, 1992
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