Groza, Baker, Sundvold head Hall inductees

INDIANAPOLIS - Pro Football Hall of Famer Lou Groza, former Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker and former NBA player Jon Sundvold were among 12 people selected Wednesday for the National High School Hall of Fame.

They will be inducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations during a June 29 ceremony in Orlando.

Groza, who died in 2000, was a high school football and basketball star at Martins Ferry (Ohio). He played briefly at Ohio State, then served three years in the military during World War II before a 20-year career with the Cleveland Browns.

Nicknamed "The Toe," Groza was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection who played until age 43. He scored a then-record 1,608 points, and his 640 extra points and 233 field goals are still the most in Browns history. Groza was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1974.

Baker, a three-sport star at Jefferson High in Portland, Ore., won the 1962 Heisman Trophy at Oregon State and was the first player selected in the 1963 NFL draft, by the Los Angeles Rams. He played quarterback and running back for the Rams three years, then in the Canadian Football League for the Edmonton Eskimos.

Sundvold scored 2,175 points in a three-year career at Blue Springs (Mo.) High and 1,597 points in helping Missouri to four straight Big Eight titles in 1980-83. He played nine years in the NBA with Seattle, San Antonio and Miami and still works as a TV basketball analyst.

The others selected to the Hall of Fame are: Blaine Lindgren, a high hurdler at Magna (Utah) Cyprus High who later won a silver medal at the 1964 Olympics; Nancy Cole, field hockey coach at Ward Melville High in East Setauket, N.Y.; Duane Twait, former football coach at Emmetsburg (Iowa) High; Irving Black, track coach for 35 years at New Britain (Conn.) High; official Peter Webb of Houlton, Maine; longtime official and former University of Idaho athletic director Paul Ostyn; Wayne Taylor, an athletic director and coach in Florida for more than 30 years; Rich Edwards, editor of the Forensic Quarterly published by the NFHS since 1980; and former Kentucky High School Athletic Association commissioner Louis Stout.

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