Football record-setter Gary Allen, three-time volleyball All-American Teee Williams, title-winning boxing coach Herbert Minn and the late athletic benefactor and tutor, Dr. Shunzo Sakamaki, have been selected to the University of Hawaii Sports Circle of Honor, it was announced yesterday by Bank of Hawaii. Four new luminaries
in UH Circle of HonorAllen, a UH tailback from 1978-81, holds 10 school career records, including most rushing yards (3,451). He was a three-time All-WAC selection and received AP All-America honorable mention in each of his four years here.
Williams, who led the Wahine to their last NCAA women's championship in 1987, was the national player of the year that season and co-player of the year in 1989.
Minn coached the UH boxers for nine years before statehood, during which they won five straight territorial titles (1954-58). Among his proteges were NCAA champions Roy Kuboyama and Seiji Naya.
Sakamaki, a UH professor for whom a campus building is named, was a major financial backer of the basketball and football programs, and also was instrumental in helping many athletes graduate.
The four will be officially inducted during halftime of the UH-BYU basketball game tonight.
Bank of Hawaii has provided funding for the UH Sports Circle of Honor for 17 years.
BOX CAR RACING GIVEN GRANT: The Atherton Family Foundation has awarded a $2,000 grant to American Box Car Racing International to help the Hawaii nonprofit organization develop its education center. The financial support will help ABCRI acquire interactive demonstrators and test booklets that teach youngsters the physics employed in box cars.
QB CLUB: Guest speakers at Monday's Honolulu Quarterback Club are Hawaii swimming and diving coach Sam Freas, Hawaii High School Athletic Association sports information/public relations director Tom Yoshida and Oahu junior golf president Norman Asao. Lunch at the Pagoda Restaurant is served at 11:30 a.m. The program begins at noon. The public is invited.
UH SWIM TEAMS WIN AGAIN: The Hawaii men's swim team remained undefeated at 10-0 by beating Connecticut, 83-29, yesterday at Duke Kahanamoku Pool while the UH women improved to 9-0 with a 67-46 win over UConn.
The UH teams will host Division III Bowdoin College at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday.
"The men are getting scary, doing things that I didn't think they would be able to do at this point," UH head coach Sam Freas said. "I scheduled Bowdoin College because I thought they might be the only team we could swim with. I feel bad for them."
SCHOFIELD SPORTSFEST: The 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division will hold its Bronco Challenge Jan. 19-21 at various Schofield Barracks sites, with 3,600 soldiers competing in boxing, wrestling, pugil stick fighting, soccer, softball, tug-of-war, weightlifting, swimming and water polo.
The sports competition is the brigade combat team's final team-building event before its deployment to Fort Polk, La., for a combat training exercise.