Breitbard Hall of Fame

Stars of the Year

Challenged Athletes

Community Champions Award

High School Coaching Legends

2005 Stars of the Month

2006 Stars of the Month

2007 Stars of the Month

2008 Stars of the Month

Stars of the Month – Bio Pages

Ernest H. Wright Award

Saunders/Connelly/Coaches

Awards Selection Committee

Inducted in 1998, Dave Winfield played his first eight of twenty-two major league seasons in San Diego from 1973-1980, representing the Padres in four of twelve consecutive All-Star Game appearances (1977-1988). At six foot six, strong armed and fast, he was drafted in three sports (baseball, basketball and football) from the University of Minnesota, where he was Most Valuable Player of the 1973 College World Series. Winfield graduated to the Padres without ever playing in the minor leagues. He joined the New York Yankees as a free agent in 1981 and won a World Series with Toronto in 1992. He retired after the 1995 season with a career batting average of .283, 3,110 hits, 465 home runs, 1,833 RBI, 223 stolen bases and seven Gold Gloves.

Inducted in 2007, Buzzie Bavasi helped bring Major League Baseball to San Diego when the National League awarded the city a franchise in the 1969 season with Bavasi the president and part-owner. He served the Padres as president from 1969 to 1977 and remained a San Diego resident with a home in La Jolla. Bavasi was inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame in 2001.

Inducted in 2007, Goose Gossage, was one of the most intimidating relief pitchers of his era. He was a two-time All-Star for the San Diego Padres in the 1984 and 1985 seasons. He posted 25 saves in 1984 when he helped the Padres win their first National League pennant. He also led the team with 26 saves in 1985 and 21 in 1986.

Leo was a football and basketball standout at USC in 1920, ’21 and ’22. He was captain of the Trojan football team that defeated Penn State in the January 1, 1923 Rose Bowl game and was selected Player of the Game as a two-way lineman. He was described by the media covering that contest as “the equivalent of a playing coach. By adroitly shifting the Trojan defense, he succeeded in checking the Lion rush.” He also intercepted a Penn State pass just as the Lions were making a move to get back into the game. Following graduation from USC in 1923, he was an assistant coach for the Trojan football, basketball and baseball teams, and helped develop the players who became the first national championship eleven selected nationally in 1926. The next ten years were spent developing championship-caliber players and teams at Whittier College, Idaho and back at USC. In 1937, he was selected to the all-time USC team.

In 1935, Leo had began a seven-year association with San Diego State as football coach, where he helped the Aztecs to several Southern California Conference titles and a 34-22-4 overall record. The final game he ever coached was a stunning 12-6 upset of Amos Alonzo Stagg’s powerful College of the Pacific team in a game played on the night before Pearl Harbor was attacked.

At the outbreak of WWII, Leo entered the Navy and served locally as commander and director of the 11th Naval District’s Recreation Department. Following the war, he served as the San Diego Parks and Recreation Department’s first director, supervising the development of Mission Bay Park and the Torrey Pines municipal golf course.

Leo was a charter member of the Breitbard Athletic Foundation and served as Executive Director of the Hall of Champions from 1960 until his retirement in 1974.

A publication from the University of Idaho says this about Leo: “In the spring of 1929, a new football coach who would make many friends came to the University. He was Leo B. Calland. A widely-read man of culture, he was at home among the scholars. He discussed the exploits of Gengis Khan authoritatively as he he did those of Knute Rockne.”

Leo passed away in 1984 at the age of 83.

Willie Buchanon Inducted in 1994. Read More >>	Volney Peters Inducted in 2006, Volney Peters, a 1947 Hoover High graduate, was one of the first great linemen from a San Diego high school to go on and earn national acclaim in college and later play pro foot Read More >>
Tex Guentert Inducted in 1980. Read More >>	Terrell Davis Inducted in 2006, Terrell Davis is one of only nine NFL players to earn both an NFL and Super Bowl MVP trophy, a distinction he shares with another Lincoln alumnus in the Breitbard Hall of Fame, Read More >>
Stan Humphries Inducted in 2004, Stan Humphries, a tough and durable gunslinger, led the 1994 San Diego Chargers to a level that no other quarterback had been able to achieve-the Super Bowl. Read More >>	Stan Barnes Inducted in 1970 under football, Stan Barnes was one of four San Diegans on the University of California Wonder Teams of the early 1920’s. Read More >>
Sid Gillman Inducted in 1987. Sid Gillman had a remarkable, six decade long career as a football player, college and pro coach, executive, and consultant. Read More >>	Russ Washington Inducted in 2002, Russ Washington played right tacke for the San Deigo Chargers from 1970-1982. In 1973 he was named the Chargers’ MVP and Lineman of the Year. Read More >>
Russ Saunders Russ Saunders, captain of San Diego High School’s 1925 Southern California champions, started as a blocking back for the University of Southern California in 1927 and played on USC’s first nation Read More >>	Ron Mix Inducted in 1975. Ron Mix, star offensive lineman at USC, was the top draft pick of the Baltimore Colts in 1960, but opted to play for the Chargers in the fledgling American Football League. Read More >>
Rolf Benirschke Inducted in 1999. Read More >>	Marshall Faulk Marshall Faulk is back in San Diego now that he is retired from a NFL career that will land him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and has him working as an analyst for NFL Network. Read More >>
Marcus Allen Football, Inducted 1999 Read More >>	Louie Kelcher Inducted in 2006, Louie Kelcher’s presence in the middle of the San Diego Chargers’ defensive line made him one of the team’s most dominant players and popular figures during his career from 1975 Read More >>
Leo Calland Leo was a football and basketball standout at USC in 1920, ’21 and ’22. Read More >>	Lance Alworth Lance Alworth remains one of the Chargers’ most popular players ever. Read More >>

Inducted in 1959. Irvine “Cotton” Warburton was a consensus All-American quarterback at the University of Southern California and later an Oscar winning film editor at Walt Disney Studios.

A three sport star at San Diego High School, winner of the state 440 yard track title in 1930, he led USC’s football team to a 20-1-1 record in 1932-1933.

Though only 148 pounds, he scored two touchdowns each in great performances in the 1933 Rose game, in which the Trojans crushed Pittsburgh 35-0, and in USC’s 19-0 victory over Notre Dame later  that year.

He won his Academy Award in 1965 for his editing of the movie classic “Mary Poppins”.

Inducted in 2002, Tony Gwynn was drafted out of SDSU by the San Diego Padres and the, then, San Diego Clippers.

During his 20-year career with the Padres, he batted over .300 for 19 consecutive seasons, winning eight batting titles. Won five Gold Glove awards and was a 16-time All-Star.

Retired with a .338 career batting average, 3,141 base hits and as the all time club leader in most offensive categories.

Tony Gwynn Inducted in 2002, Tony Gwynn was drafted out of SDSU by the San Diego Padres and the, then, San Diego Clippers. Read More >>	Ted Williams Inducted in 1954, Ted Williams, generally regarded as the greatest hitter in baseball history, batted .406 in 1941, the last major leaguer to hit .400. Read More >>
Rollie Fingers Inducted in 2000, Rollie Fingers was baseball’s career “saves” leader with 341 saves upon his retirement in 1985. He had a seventeen year career in major league baseball. Read More >>	Ray Boone Inducted in 1973, Ray “Ike” Boone was a slugging infielder in the major leagues from 1948 to 1960. Read More >>
Randy Jones Inducted in 1996, Randy Jones, a fast working left hander with an outstanding sinker and pinpoint control, wsa the first San Diego Padres pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. Read More >>	Graig Nettles Inducted in 1991, Graig Nettles who played baseball and basketball at San Diego High and San Diego State, combined power and outstanding defense in a twenty-two year career as a third baseman for s Read More >>
Goose Gossage Inducted in 2007, Goose Gossage, was one of the most intimidating relief pitchers of his era. He was a two-time All-Star for the San Diego Padres in the 1984 and 1985 seasons. Read More >>	Gavy Cravath Inducted in 1985, Clifford “Gavy” Cravath was the home run king of the “dead ball” era. Read More >>
Floyd Robinson Inducted 2009, Baseball. Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood first took root shortly before World War II in Logan Heights, not far from where PETCO Park stands today. Read More >>	Earle Brucker Inducted in 1960, Earle Brucker was the catcher for the San Diego High School team that won the mythical National Championship in 1921, hailed as the city’s first national title of any kind. Read More >>
Don Larsen Inducted in 1964, Don Larsen is the only man to pitch a perfect game in the World Series. Read More >>	Deron Johnson Deron Johnson, All-Southern California in both football and baseball at San Diego High School, had sixteen years as a player and twelve as a coach in major league baseball until his death from canc Read More >>
David Wells David Wells will be the first to tell you that as a baseball player, he was a little—well, crazy. Read More >>	David Winfield Inducted in 1998, Dave Winfield played his first eight of twenty-two major league seasons in San Diego from 1973-1980, representing the Padres in four of twelve consecutive All-Star Game appearance Read More >>
Buzzie Bavasi Inducted in 2007, Buzzie Bavasi helped bring Major League Baseball to San Diego when the National League awarded the city a franchise in the 1969 season with Bavasi the president and part-owner. Read More >>	Bob Skinner Inducted in 1976, Bob Skinner was a hard hitting major league outfielder from 1951-1966 and played on two World Series champion teams: the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates and the 1964 St. Read More >>