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ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME 1987 |
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Butch Stafford, a native of Alexandria, Ind., played basketball for West Alabama from 1968-1972. He scored 1,143 career points for the Tigers, and was selected the GSC Player of the Year and an All-American in 1971-72. He helped lead the Tigers to the Alabama Collegiate Conference Championship in 1969-70 and 1970-71, and was the ACC Tournament MVP in 1971. He later became a high school coach at Eufaula High School and Highland High School in Anderson, Indiana. He led Eufaula to a State Championship in 1978, and had a 39-8 record in two years at Highland High School.
Charlie Thompson, a native of Birmingham, Ala., was the first member of the West Alabama track team to be named an All-American, earning the honor in 1970 after finishing second in the nation in the triple jump at the NAIA National Meet. He led UWA to the 1969 ACC Championship and was the captain of the track team from 1968-70, leading the Tigers in scoring all three years. Thompson later competed for a position in the 1972 Olympic Track and Field teams and the 1971 Pan American Games. |
