Athletic Hall of Fame 1987 Inductees

Harry Edwin “Porky” Davison, 1938

Lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Earned 13 letters.

Football: Played center and linebacker. Was first team all-conference and elected to the all-state team as a senior. The 1937 Wildcats were conference champions.

Basketball: Lettered four years as a guard. Known for his aggressiveness, was elected to the honorable mention all-conference team as a senior.

Track: Lettered four years in the javelin.

Baseball: Lettered in baseball as a senior, the only year the university fielded a team while he was in college.

Member of the Zeta Chi fraternity.

Received a B.S. in Mathematics in 1938. Coached and taught for two years at both Wellsville High School and Harper High School.

Received an officer’s commission in the U.S. Navy and was sent for special courses in aerological engineering at MIT. Served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. Received a citation from Admiral Halsey for “Accurate Reporting of Wind, Weather, and Sea Swells Which Allowed U.S. Forces to Invade Iwo Jima Successfully Four Days Earlier Than Scheduled.” Also received the Air Medal from Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, for his meritorious achievements.

In 1946 began a 10-year career with the State of Kansas at the Veterans Administration.

From 1956-1959 was in the insurance business while serving as president of the Kansas College Officials Association. Left Kansas in 1959 to work in Colorado in the petroleum business, serving as Rocky Mountain division manager and vice president of Western Crude Oil. Appointed in 1979 to serve on the national committee on special problems of the veterans affairs and rehabilitation program of the American Legion.

Frederick Lawrence Heine, Jr., 1937

Lettered in football, basketball and track.

Football: Was second team all-conference at tackle as a sophomore, and first-team selection as a junior. Served as team captain as a senior.

Basketball: Played as the center, winning all-conference honorable mention honors as a freshman, second team as a sophomore, and first team as a junior and senior. Also was elected the all-conference team captain as a junior and senior, while Baker’s team won the conference.

Track: Won conference championship in the shot put and also placed in the mile relay.

President of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and a member of the German Club. Served as junior class treasurer, senior class president, president of the B Club, and student commission president.

Received A.B. degree in business administration and mathematics in 1937 and an M.A. degree in education administration from UMKC in 1943.

Taught accounting and mathematics in the Kansas City School District from 1942 to 1955 and served as vice principal and principal from 1956 to 1981.

Elected to the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Education in 1982 and re-elected in 1986. Served as president 1984-86.

Has served as president of the Kiwanis Club, and as a member of Intercity of Independence, Mo.

Received a special award from the Independence Neighborhood Councils in 1985 and a Baker University Alumni Citation in 1986.

Charles E. Sloop, 1943

Lettered in football, basketball and track.

Football: Was named to several all-conference and all-Kansas teams. Was the "hard-driving, pass-snatching full back” on coach Emil Liston’s 1942 squad that went undefeated and untied.

Basketball: Was named all conference first team in both his junior and senior years.

Track: Won the Kansas Conference Championship in the high hurdles as a junior and low hurdles as a senior. Earned points additionally in the broad jump and high jump.

Served as vice president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Earned a degree in physics. 1943 commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Served in the Pacific during World War II and later in Europe. In 1953 joined the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Topeka. Spent 33 years as an electrical engineer and manager.

Maxwell E. "Bud" Sloop, 1952

Lettered in football and track all four years.

Football: Was elected to the second team all-conference as a junior, and the first team as a senior as a tackle and extra point specialist.

Basketball: Spent three years as the team trainer/manager.

In 1952, was the student director of the Baker Relays.

Served as vice president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Earned a degree in physical education, 1952.

Began officiating basketball in 1951. Was an assistant football coach in 1954 and assistant track coach in 1955 at Baker.

Was assistant coach at Topeka Highland High School 1955-61. From 1961-69 coached at Topeka Washburn Rural High School in wrestling, gymnastics, track and football, most as head coach.

Continues to be a registered football and gymnastics judge and has officiated at eight KSHSAA state meets.

Has served the KSHSAA on the Board of Directors, 1977-1982, and on the Executive Board, 1980-1982.