9 Razorback greats slated to be inducted into SWC Hall of Fame

FAYETTEVILLE — Nine former Arkansas football, baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s track and field and men’s tennis athletes have been elected to the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.

Inductees include Marvin Delph, from the men’s basketball program; Tracy Webb Rice, women’s basketball; Glen Ray Hines, football; Bobby Crockett, football; Jimmy Walker, football; Gary Anderson, football; Tim Lollar, baseball; Reuben Reina, men’s track; and the late Peter Doohan, men’s tennis.

Induction ceremonies will be held during a Nov. 5 luncheon at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock in conjunction with the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

Conway native Marvin Delph starred from the 1974 through the

1977-78 season that included SWC basketball championships in 1977 and 1978 and the 1978 Final Four. He was a two-time All-American long-range shooter and one of Eddie Sutton’s fabled Triplets with SWC Hall of Famers Ron Brewer and Sidney Moncrief.

Batesville native Webb Rice — Webb when she starred at point guard for former coach John Sutherland’s Lady Razorbacks basketball team — captained Arkansas’ first NCAA Women’s Tournament team and first Women’s National Invitation Tournament championship. She earned All-SWC honors and was Arkansas’ career leader in steals and assists when she graduated. Her 293 career steals and 93 steals for a season still leads the UA.

Arkansas’ first-ever All-American offensive tackle Hines earned All-American honors his senior 1965 season as an integral part of Frank Broyles’ Razorbacks that went 11-0 to win the SWC championship in

1964 and 10-1 to win the SWC championship in 1965, losing only to LSU in the Cotton Bowl. Hines was voted to the program’s All-Century team and named the SWC’s 1965 most outstanding player by the Houston Post.

All-American receiver Crockett, also a mainstay of Broyles’ 1964 and 1965 teams, is most recalled for his seven catches for 121 yards and a touchdown in the ‘64 Razorbacks’ 14-13 victory over Texas in Austin and his 10 catches for 129 yards and a touchdown against LSU.

Defensive tackle Walker, of Little Rock, was a last minute signee by Broyles before lettering as a freshman reserve on Arkansas’ 1975 SWC championship team. Walker blossomed into an All-American mainstay on Lou Holtz’s 1977 and 1978 11-1 and 9-2-1 teams. Walker recorded a then-school record 19 tackles for lost yardage in 1978 and was named the Outstanding Defensive Player of the game for Arkansas’ Fiesta Bowl tie with UCLA. He was among Arkansas’ stars of the 1977 Razorbacks’ epic Orange Bowl victory over prohibitive favored Oklahoma.

Anderson will be inducted off his 1,999 yards and 10 touchdowns on 392 carries, plus three years leading the Razorbacks in receiving, kickoff returns and punt returns before a long pro career in the NFL, USFL and Canadian Football League. He lettered for Holtz’s Razorbacks from 1979-82 as an All-SWC running back. He was later named to Arkansas’ 1980s All-Decade team.

Lollar was Arkansas’ first baseball All-American as the 1978 designated hitter for Norm DeBriyn’s Razorbacks. He starred both hitting and pitching for the ‘77 and ‘78 Razorbacks, the forerunners to DeBriyn’s 1979 national runner-up College World Series team.

The left-handed pitcher and hitter was the staff ace before a nineyear Major League Baseball career pitching for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. Lollar used his pro success to give back, joining fellow Razorback greats Johnny Ray and Kevin McReynolds and their agent, Tom Selakovich, with donations bringing lights to George Cole Field, the Razorbacks’ baseball home before Baum Stadium.

Reina earned eight All-American honors as a distance runner from 1988-91 to help coach John McDonnell’s Razorbacks win nine national championships and 11 SWC championships in cross country, indoor and outdoor track. The San Antonio native was a two-time NCAA Indoor 3000-meter champion and ran for the U.S. in the 1992 Olympic Games.

The greatest of former Arkansas tennis coach Tom Pucci’s players, Australian native Doohan is the tennis program’s only four-time All-American and, along with teammate Pat Serret in 1982, won Arkansas’ only NCAA Men’s doubles championship after teaming as national runner-ups in 1981. Doohan also won SWC titles in singles and with Serret in doubles.

As a professional, Doohan scored what is arguably the biggest upset in Wimbledon history when he defeated top-seed Boris Becker in 1987.