Two Delta State University graduates\u00a0were inducted into the Clarksdale\/Coahoma County Sports Hall of Fame April 2 at the Pinnacle Building of Coahoma Community College. George Crump Miller \u201971 and James Washington Sr. \u201986 were both a part of fifth Hall of Fame class.<\/p>\n
Miller was a member of the Delta State tennis team from 1967-71, serving as the No. 4 singles player and the No. 3 doubles player. He earned his degree in accounting.<\/p>\n
Washington coached basketball at Coahoma Agricultural High School and Coahoma Junior College for 32 years. He obtained his master’s in education.<\/p>\n
The banquet is in honor of Aubrey Rozell, a member of the Delta State football team and a 1956 graduate. Rozell would go on to play\u00a0in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n
Delta State Alumni Director and tennis coach Jeffrey Farris was the featured speaker for the event.<\/p>\n
To stay up to date on the Alumni Association\u2019s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates<\/strong><\/a>), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Tumblr (http:\/\/www.dsualumni.tumblr.com<\/strong><\/a>), LinkedIn (DSU alumni<\/strong><\/a>), Instagram (dsualumni<\/strong><\/a>) and You Tube (dsualumni1<\/strong><\/a>). Save the date for this year\u2019s Pig Pickin\u2019 (Sept.\u00a024) and Homecoming (Oct. 15).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Delta State University graduates\u00a0were inducted into the Clarksdale\/Coahoma County Sports Hall of Fame April 2 at the Pinnacle Building of Coahoma Community College. George Crump Miller \u201971 and James…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":69884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[1408,200],"class_list":["post-69882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni","category-athletics","tag-alumni","tag-athletics-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69922,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69882\/revisions\/69922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}