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Earl Shell HOF

Earl Shell

  • Class
    1940
  • Induction
    1985
  • Sport(s)
    Basketball, Athletic Administration

Was an outstanding guard on the 1938-39 and ‘39-40 basketball teams ... Two-year starter and team captain ... Named first team All-State for 1939-40 season ... Also a pitcher for softball team, Booster Club president (a club for recruiting students), played in a band and sang in a traveling quartet … Named Mozarkian Prince in 1939 and received the outstanding music award in 1940 … After receiving an associate degree, worked as a principal and junior high basketball coach for two years in Licking, Mo. … Became athletic director and music director at Algoa Intermediate Reformatory in Jefferson City … Was an athletic specialist during a Navy hitch.

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