Class of 1988
| 1988 Inductees | ||
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| 1964 U.S. Olympic Mens Basketball Team Tenley Albright | Charles Daniels Jim McKay | Malvin "Mal" Whitfield |
| 1964 U.S. Olympic Mens Basketball Team | |
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| Jim Barnes, Bill Bradley, Larry Brown, Joe Caldwell, Mel Counts, Richard Davies, Walt Hazzard, Lucious Jackson, John McCaffrey, Jeff Mullins, Jerry Shipp, George Wilson. This team won the sixth straight Olympic basketball gold medal for the U.S. The team, which won nine games without a defeat and had an average victory margin of 30 points per game, was captained by guard/forward Bill Bradley. In his life after the Games, Bradley went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, help the New York Knicks to two NBA titles, serve as a United States Senator from New Jersey and make a run for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2000. | |
| Tenley Albright | |
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| Photo: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images | |
 | One of America's great figure skaters, Albright won a silver medal in the 1952 Olympic Winter Games at the age of 16. Four years later, two weeks before the Games in Cortina, Italy, Albright had an accident while practicing, cutting a bone beneath her right boot with her left skate blade. Undaunted, she went on to win the gold medal in Cortina. |
| Charles Daniels | |
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| Daniels competed in three Olympic Games (1904, 1906 and 1908), winning seven overall medals. Included in Daniels' heroics were back-to-back wins in the 100-meter freestyle events in 1906 and 1908. In the 1908 victory, Daniels was still in the process of slipping off his robe when the starter's gun sounded. During his remarkable career, Daniels won 53 national championships. | |
| Jim McKay | |
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| Covered 10 Olympic Games for ABC-TV from 1960-88; winner of 10 Emmy Awards; awarded Officer's Cross of the Legion of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); awarded George Polk Memorial Award for Journalism McKay, a 10-time Emmy Award winning broadcaster, became synonymous with the Olympics for a period of nearly three decades. He covered the games 11 times, debuting at the 1960 Games in Rome, and most recently with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games from Calgary. McKay won two Emmys for his gripping reports on the terrorist attack at the 1972 Games in Munich. | |
| Malvin "Mal" Whitfield | |
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| Whitfield is one of the great U.S. middle distance runners. He was victorious in the 800 meters in both 1948 and 1952, and added a gold medal in the 1948 4×400-meter relay, running the anchor leg. He also earned a silver in the 4×400 in 1952, and a bronze in the 400-meter run in 1948. Whitfield's first 800-meter gold broke an Olympic record, and his second equaled that record. | |