Class of 2018, Hall of Fame Members
Louise, Estelle & Mary Weigel Home 5 Author archive for buffhall ( Page 104 ) The Weigel sisters, Louise, Estelle and Mary, were each athletically gifted in their own right. Mary, the youngest of the three, was regarded as one of the city’s foremost...
Class of 2002, Hall of Fame Members
Coach and Athletic Director St. Bonaventure and Little-Three basketball fans certainly remember Larry Weise as the coach of the Bonnies’1969-70 NCAA Final Four Team, a team that lost a realistic shot at the national championship when Bob Lanier went down with a...
Class of 2016, Hall of Fame Members
BOB WESTPHAL Home 5 Author archive for buffhall ( Page 103 ) The father of youth hockey in Western New York, Bob Westphal is credited with teaching the sport to over 10,000 children in his 55 years of coaching amateur hockey. Bob founded the highly successful...
Class of 2019, Hall of Fame Members
James and Will White, two emerging baseball stars in the sport’s early days, were born in Caton, NY, just a few miles from the Pennsylvania border. In 1870, just the second year of “professional” baseball, James “Deacon” White began his playing career. He was known as...
Class of 2018, Hall of Fame Members
The Williams Brothers Home 5 Author archive for buffhall ( Page 104 ) Jimmy Williams & Rickey Williams In the Williams family, basketball runs like a fast break, and Jimmy and Rickey demonstrated that talent in Western New York and beyond. Jimmy Williams was...
