FAMU will induct six persons into its’ Sports Hall of Fame during the 35th SHOF Enshrinement Ceremonies on Friday, October 1 at the Al Lawson Center at 7:00 p.m.Andre Dawson, inducted this July 25th into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, will be a special guest honoree at this year’s ceremony. Dawson, a Rattler Baseball great in the 1970s, was a member of the 1981 FAMU Sports Hall of Fame enshrinement class.
The 2010 SHOF Class features four athletes – Tiffany Daughtry (Women’s Track), the late Robert Jackson, Jr. (Baseball), Olrick Johnson (Football) and Ulysses Wilson (Baseball); one coach – Amos Hill, assistant football coach during the Rudy Hubbard Era, and one supporter of athletics – local broadcast personality and Marching 100 Band announcer Joe Bullard (pictured).
Dawson and the six 2010 SHOF honorees will be recognized during halftime of the October 2 football game between FAMU and South Carolina State at Bragg Memorial Stadium.