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J_ Crisham

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Re: Golf and Tennis:
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2010, 02:03:26 PM »
Hale Irwin had a good football career at CO and a fine pro golf career for the past 40 yrs
              Jack

Will MacEwen

Re: Golf and Tennis:
« Reply #26 on: December 17, 2010, 02:08:38 PM »
Dale Tallon was a Canadian Junior golf champ and had a nice career in the NHL.  He has also had managerial jobs in both sports, as a head pro at Highland Park and an NHL GM.

SL_Solow

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Re: Golf and Tennis:
« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2010, 02:47:12 PM »
Shiv;  I thought you were going to mention Marty Riessen, a great tennis player, #1 in the world in doubles with Tom Okker, who also played varsity hoops for your beloved NU wildcats.

Dave McCollum

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Re: Golf and Tennis:
« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2010, 04:17:33 PM »
On the totally obscure side, a guy my older brother competed against, Ray McDonald.  Ray was 6’4” and weighed about 240 in HS.  Had a 32” waist and wore a 54” jacket.  I first saw him in HS where he was All State in football, BB, and track (2X state champion in 4 events).   In HS and college track he’d run the high and low hurdles, then go throw the shot and discus, usually winning all.  In college, he played football, BB, and track.  In football he played running back, was an All American, led the NCAA in rushing, and was a first round draft pick by the Redskins.  He could play any tune by ear on the piano and could belt out deep, booming gospels with the best.  Simply the most amazing “man’s man” that I’ve ever seen.  Totally natural physique; I don’t think Ray ever touch a weight until rehabbing a pro football injury.  His old college football coach still plays golf at my club and calls Ray “the hardest working and best athlete I ever coached.”  Unfortunately, injuries and that “man’s man” thing (very much in the closet) ended his pro career too early.  He died a few years later, perhaps one of the first US Aids victims.  Less tolerant times back in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s.  My brother was a college football teammate.  Intolerant times or not, nobody that knew Ray well has a bad thing to say about him. 

Matthew Mollica

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Re: Golf and Tennis:
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2010, 04:51:08 PM »
Ivan Lendl is a good suggestion given the title of the thread.

Expanding onto multi-sport athletes, West Indies cricketer Gary Sobers rates a mention.

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The Hon. Sir Garfield St Aubrun SobersAO, OCC (born 28 July 1936 in Bridgetown, Barbados) is a former cricketer who captained West Indies. His first name of Garfield is variously abbreviated as Gary or Garry. He is widely regarded as cricket's greatest ever all-rounder, having excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and fielding. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975 for his services to cricket. He became a dual Barbadian-Australian citizen through marriage in 1980.

in the three years following the 1957 tour, he fulfilled his promise. In his next 24 Tests, he scored 2,250 runs at the exceptionally high average of 93.75. In 1958, he scored his maiden Test century against Pakistan in Kingston and expanded it to an unbeaten 365, breaking the world record Test score of 364 set by England's Len Hutton in 1938. Sobers batted for 614 minutes and scored 38 fours but, unusually in such a large total, no sixes. At 21 years and 216 days, he is the youngest player to break the individual scoring record in Tests, and remains the youngest triple-centurion.

Sobers was briefly engaged to Indian actress Anju Mahendru after he met her on the 1966-67 tour of India. He married Pru Kirby, an Australian girl, in September 1969. They had two sons, Matthew and Daniel, and an adopted daughter, Genevieve. The marriage ended in divorce in 1990 after the couple broke up in 1984, however Sobers acquired dual Australian citizenship through marriage in 1980.

He says that his was a multi-sporting family who were all good at football, basketball, table tennis and tennis. His own favourite sport is golf and he has been an enthusiastic gambler. He is the author of a children's novel about cricket, Bonaventure and the Flashing Blade, in which computer analysis helps a university cricket team become unbeatable. While playing golf in Australia, Sobers often played at Northern Golf Club, in the suburbs of Melbourne. He held a low single figure handicap as a left-handed and right-handed golfer!

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