1980’s Inductees By Year

1980

Eugene “Fessor” Boyce

J. Madison Brooks

William M. “Bill” Johnson

Ruffner P. Murray

Claudette Riley Sisk

Judy Eller Street

Murray Warmath

1981

Edward Bailey

Floyd Burdette

Erselle D. “Red” Cavette

Bailey Howell

Sadie Galloway Johnson

1982

Ken Burkhart

Will Grimsley

Alex Guerry

Francis E. “Hank” Lauricella

Elma Roane

Gene Thompson

1983

George “Zaney” Barker

Ed Cifers

Buford “Baby” Ray

Raymond “Bull” Brown

Roger Goodman Murray, Sr.

Marvin “Marvelous Marv” Throneberry

1984

A.W. Davis

Samuel Dorsey Jackson

John Harry Johnsey, Jr.

Joseph Laurent Johnson

William Cooper “Bill” Redd

Dr. Sam Houston Sanders

Walter “Buck” Van Huss

1985

Ernest “Big Boy” Eldridge

Charles “Willie” Geny

Robert Gale Cifers

Stroud Gwynn

Robert D. “Bob” Johnson

Ray Mears

Hal Morrison

Cliff Norvell

Joseph S. Signaigno

1986

Samuel W. “Sam” Bartholomew, Sr.

Thomas G. Bartlett

Turney Ford

James A. “Jim” Haslam II

Houston Herndon

Thomas G. “Shaky” Kain

Dr. A. Brant “Pinky” Lipscomb

Elwyn P. “Rip” Rowan

James “Tim” McCarver

1987

Lemuel Philip Beene

John Bibb

Larry Carrier

Richard A. “Dick” Davies

J.C. “Jake” Fondren

Ernie Grunfeld

Harold Franklin Johnson

Irvin “Tiny” Knee

Hillis Layne

1988

Ray Bussard

A.F. “Bud” Dudley

Lou Fitzgerald

Howard Gentry, Sr.

Claude Humphrey

James T. “Tommy” Prothro

George H. Treadwell

Star Wood

1989

Tom Elam

John Robert Bell

Steve DeLong

Rex Dockery

Roy Kramer

William Patrick “Pat “McHugh

John Merritt

Harry Schuh

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