Notable deaths from the sporting world

September & August

 Sept. 2 -- J. Hal Surface Jr., a former U.S. tennis champion and U.S. Davis Cup member, died at age 88. Surface's playing career spanned from the 1930s to the 1980s and included victories over Bill Tilden and Bobby Riggs. As freshman at the University of Texas he led the Longhorns to a national collegiate championship. Surface was a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon, in 1937 and he reached the semifinals of the U.S. Nationals in 1945, losing to Pancho Segura. In 1959, Surface won the U.S. National Seniors singles championship, defeating Bill Lurie in the championship match, 6-4, 6-4.

 Sept. 2 -- Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones, who trained Citation to the final two legs of the 1948 Triple Crown and saddled two Kentucky Derby winners, died at age 94. Jones' training career started in 1926 and he retired in 1964, having won 54 stakes races and saddling seven champion horses. He was the country's leading trainer five times (1947-49, 1957, 1961) and was the first trainer to better the $1 million mark in purses. In 1948, Jimmy Jones stepped aside as the trainer of Citation to allow his father, Ben, to be named the colt's official trainer for the Kentucky Derby. Jimmy Jones won the Kentucky Derby with Iron Liege in 1957 and Tim Tam in 1958.

 Sept. 4 -- Pete Brown, an All-America center on two undefeated Georgia Tech football teams, died at age 70. Brown played on the 1951 team that was 11-0-1 and the 1952 team that finished 12-0 and shared the national championship with Michigan State.

 Sept. 5 -- Cawood Ledford, the longtime radio voice of the Kentucky Wildcats and one of the nation's most respected horse-racing broadcasters, died at age 75. Ledford called UK football and basketball for nearly four decades, until his retirement after the 1991-92 basketball season. Ledford called 17 NCAA Final Fours and also became a nationally renowned horse-racing broadcaster, calling the Kentucky Derby more than 15 times for CBS Radio.

 Sept. 7 -- Stan "Chook" Maxwell, one of the first blacks to play professional hockey, died at age 66. Maxwell spent a number of seasons in the International League and was playing there with the Toledo Blades when he retired from hockey in 1971.

 Sept. 8 -- Yushiro Yagi, president of the Japan Olympic Committee, died at age 72. Yagi served as the coach of Japan's biathlon team in the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics and of a team of skiers at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Yagi, elected JOC president in 1999, led Japanese Olympic delegates at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and last year's summer Olympics in Sydney.

 Sept. 11 -- Garnet "Ace" Bailey, 53, director of pro scouting for the Los Angeles Kings, was one of 65 passengers aboard one of the flights that crashed into the World Trade Center.

 Sept. 11 -- Mark Bavis, 31, an amateur scout for the Kings, also was aboard United Airlines Flight 175 -- the second plane to hit the skyscrapers in New York.

 Sept. 11 -- Mari Rae Sopper, 35, a gymnastics coach at UC Santa Barbara, was one of the passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon.

 Sept. 13 -- Jaroslav Drobny, the Czech-born lefthander who won two French Open titles and one Wimbledon crown, died at age 79. Drobny also won an Olympic silver medal in ice hockey. He won back-to-back French Opens in 1951 and '52, having lost in three previous finals at Roland Garros. At Wimbledon, Drobny lost a five-set final to Ted Schroeder in 1949 and, in '52, was beaten in four sets by Frank Sedgman. Two years later, he beat 19-year-old Australian Ken Rosewall in the Wimbledon final. Drobny also represented Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup, winning 37 of his 43 matches.

 Sept. 14 -- George Bradley, a longtime baseball executive who once ran the New York Yankees, died at age 58. Bradley's baseball career spanned almost 30 years. He spent the last 10 with the Chicago White Sox. He was made the Yankees vice president of baseball operations in August 1990 -- above general manager Gene Michael -- but was fired in February 1991.

 Sept. 14 -- George Ireland, coach of Loyola's 1963 NCAA championship basketball team, died at age 88. Ireland went 321-255 in 24 years at Loyola before retiring in 1974, taking the Ramblers to the NCAA tournament four times and the NIT once. He had four 20-victory seasons in a five-year span in the early 1960s, including a 29-2 mark in the title year.

 Sept. 15 -- Eight University of Wyoming cross country runners were killed in a head-on accident with a pickup truck driven by a fellow student about 17 miles south of Laramie on U.S. 287. The victims of the crash were Shane Shatto, 19; Nicholas J. Schabron, 20; Justin Lambert-Belanger, 20; Kyle N. Johnson, 20; Kevin L. Salverson, 19; Joshua D. Jones, 22; Morgan McLeland, 21; and Cody B. Brown, 21.

 Sept. 15 -- Paul "Tank" Younger, the first athlete from a predominantly black college to play in the NFL, died at age 73. Younger spent 46 consecutive years in the NFL as a player and executive. He played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1949-57 and ended his career with Pittsburgh in 1958.

 Sept. 16 -- Don Hume, who won a gold medal in rowing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died at age 86. Hume set the pace as stroke oar for the eight-man Washington crew that won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association title and U.S. Olympic Trials before beating Italy at the Berlin Olympics.

 Sept. 16 -- Jerry Harper, the record-setting center on Alabama's "Rocket Eight" basketball teams of the mid-1950s, at age 67. The starters and three of the reserves became known as the "Rocket Eight" as they went 19-5 in 1954-55 and 21-3 in 1955-56, when they won the Southeastern Conference championship with a 14-0 record. To cap that championship season, Alabama defeated SEC powerhouse Kentucky 101-77, the first time any team had scored 100 points on the Wildcats.

 Sept. 17 -- David Kipiani, 50, a star forward on the Soviet Union's soccer team in the 1970s and '80s and coach of his native Georgia until recently, died after a car crash.

 Sept. 18 -- Sandy Saddler, former featherweight champion, died at age 75. Saddler, one of the hardest punching small men in boxing history, had a career record of 144-2-16 with 103 knockouts and held the featherweight title twice. He was 75-2-6 when he finally got a featherweight title shot against Pep on Oct. 29, 1948. Pep's record was 135-1-1. Saddler dominated the match in Madison Square Garden, cutting Pep in the first round, knocking him down twice in the third and knocking him out in the fourth. The rematch was held in the Garden Feb. 11, 1949, and Pep, on what he called his greatest night, regained the title on a 15-round decision.

 Sept. 19 -- Bill Stafford, former New York Yankee pitcher, died at age 63. Stafford played eight seasons in the major leagues, compiling a 43-40 record with a 3.52 ERA. He spent his first six seasons with the New York Yankees and pitched a four-hitter to beat San Francisco 3-2 in Game 3 of the 1962 World Series, won by the Yankees in seven games.

 Sept. 20 -- Bill Harris, former Toronto Maple Leafs forward, died at age 66. The center spent 13 seasons in the NHL, playing 769 games with Toronto, the Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Golden Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins. He had 126 goals and 219 assists and won three Stanley Cups with Toronto.

 Sept. 21 -- Ollie Shannon, who led Minnesota in scoring at 20.5 points per game in 1970-71, died at age 53. Shannon averaged 18.9 points in 1969-70 and in 1970-71, he tied the school scoring record with 42 points against Wisconsin, taking a school-record 42 shots from the field.

 Sept. 22 -- The Rev. Dr. David Griffith Colwell, a football star at Yale, died at age 84. Colwell was a star fullback at Yale from 1935-37, lettering three times. Yale went 7-1 in '36, and 6-1-1 in '37.

 Sept. 24 -- Shawn Walsh, who led the University of Maine to two national hockey championships, died at age 46. Walsh, who was entering his 18th season at Maine, ranked 11th among active coaches and 19th on the overall victory list. He led Maine teams to seven Frozen Four appearances.

 Sept. 25 -- Lowell "Alex" Francis, who coached track and cross country at Fort Hays State for 34 years and was a coach at the 1968 Olympics, died at age 91. Francis' teams won 25 conference titles in cross country and track and field. In one 14-year stretch, his track teams went undefeated in 33 consecutive dual meets. He coached the U.S. track team at the 1967 Pan American Games. In 1968, he coached distance runners on the U.S. Olympic team.

 Sept. 26 -- Ozzie Simmons, one of the first black All-American college football players, died at age 87. Simmons played football for the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1936, winning accolades as an All-American and All Big Ten honoree in 1934 and 1935. He was Iowa's top rusher in 1935 and 1936 and led the team in scoring in 1936.

 Sept. 27 -- Connor Senn, 18, a freshman Ohio State soccer player died after collapsing during a match at the University of Akron.

 Sept. 28 -- Thomas Folliard, a one-time Providence College basketball player who later made his mark in the sport as a coach, died at age 61. Folliard, along with teammates John Thompson and Lenny Wilkens, played on the Providence team that won the NIT title in 1961. As a coach, he compiled a career record of 399-212 at Stonehill, Bryant and Florida Tech. All three schools went from struggling programs to NCAA Tournament teams during Folliard's tenure.

 Sept. 29 -- Michael Cervi Jr., 30, a member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association since 1994, was one of three people killed when a twin-engine Cessna crashed near Marshfield's (Wis.) municipal airport.

 Sept. 29 -- Mabel Fairbanks, who coached ice skating champions Scott Hamilton and pair Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, died at age 85. Fairbanks was the first black woman inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.

 Oct. 4 -- Blaise Alexander, 25, a promising ARCA driver who also tried to make it in NASCAR, was killed in a wreck at Lowe's Motor Speedway at Concord, N.C. Alexander, the 1996 Automobile Racing Club of America rookie of the year, had three career ARCA wins and also was running a limited schedule on the Busch Grand National Series.

 Oct. 8 -- Katherine Rogan, a track and field star in the 1920s and 1930s, died at age 93. Rogan won five straight national championships in the standing long jump from 1927-1931, and national titles in the the 50-yard dash in 1926 and the 40-yard dash in 1928.

 Oct. 9 -- George A. Sloan, one of the principal figures in the sport of steeplechase, died at age 62. Sloan began his career as a jockey at age 15 and went on to win 105 U.S. races from 1954 to 1995. Sloan was one of only 32 steeplechase riders to win 100 or more races. In 1988, Sloan founded the International Steeplechase Group Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports the sport, including providing a $1 million bonus prize for any horse that wins two U.S. events and two British events in the same year. He also created the Royal Chase, one of the sport's richest events.

 Oct. 9 -- JeKelcy Lee Johnson, 20, an Alcorn State freshman linebacker was shot dead on campus when he and a fellow student tried to help a woman who was being harassed.

 Oct. 10 -- Eddie Futch, an amateur sparring partner for Joe Louis who went on to train 20 world champions as one of boxing's greatest teachers, died at age 90. Futch trained five heavyweight champions -- Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick. Other champions Futch worked with during his Hall of Fame career included light heavyweights Bob Foster and Montell Griffin, junior middleweight Mike McCallum, lightweight Alexis Arguello and welterweights Don Jordan (his first champion in 1959) and Marlon Starling.

 Oct. 10 -- Cal Gardner, a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Maple Leafs, died at age 76. Gardner joined the New York Rangers in 1945 after a year of military duty. He was traded the Leafs as part of a six-player deal at the end of the 1947-48 season. He also played for Chicago and Boston during his 12 NHL seasons, scoring 154 goals with 238 assists in 696 games.

 Oct. 10 -- Harry Cross, the NCAA president from 1969-70 who sought to tighten rules on the recruitment of athletes, died at age 88. Cross also was president of the Pacific-10 Conference and its predecessor, the Pacific-8 Conference, for three years.

 Oct. 13 -- Bonnie Lee "Country" Graham, an all-Southeastern Conference forward at Mississippi in 1938 who went on to become the school's winningest coach, died at age 87. Graham played at Ole Miss from 1936-38 and led the Rebels to the SEC championship game as a senior where they lost to Georgia Tech and finished with 22-12 record. A pioneer of the one-handed shot from the pivot, Graham finished with 1,259 points, a 16.6 point average, and held 35 conference scoring records at the end of his career. From 1950-62, Graham compiled a 144-167 record, the most wins for a coach at Ole Miss.

 Oct. 14 -- Bert Rose, a former NFL executive who in 1960 recommended that the expansion Minnesota team be called the Vikings, died at age 83. Rose was Minnesota's first general manager. Rose also was a general manager of the New Orleans Saints and the manager of Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

 Oct. 17 -- Jack Smith, one of stock-car racing's first stars, died at age 78. Smith won 21 NASCAR races in his 15-year career. Smith won his first race at Martinsville Speedway in 1956 and took NASCAR's Most Popular Driver Award in 1959.

 Oct. 17 -- Micheline Ostermeyer, who won gold medals in the shot put and discus throw in the 1948 Olympics, died at age 78.

 Oct. 18 -- Ferris Fain, the American League batting champion in 1951 and 1952, died at age 80. Most of Fain's career was spent with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox. He was on the American League All-Star team from 1950 to 1954, After nine seasons in the majors, he left with a .290 batting average.

 Oct. 18 -- Tom Chandler, former Texas A&M baseball coach, died at age 76. Chandler had a 660-329-10 record in his 26-year A&M career, which ended in 1984. The Aggies had winning records in all but one of Chandler's seasons and won five Southwest Conference titles. A&M reached the College World Series once under Chandler, in 1964.

 Oct. 19 -- Debora Farah, 27, Brazil's first women's surf champion in 1997, drowned while surfing off the northern coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 Oct. 19 -- Woody Dumart, former Boston Bruins left winger and a member of the famed "Kraut Line" of the 1930s and '40s, died at age 84. Dumart played his entire professional career from 1935 to 1954 with the Bruins. In the 1939-40 season, the trio became the first line in NHL history to finish 1-2-3 in league scoring. He finished his career with 211 goals and 218 assists and was a member of the Bruins' 1939 and 1941 Stanley Cup championship teams.

 Oct. 23 -- Ken Aston, the British referee who invented the disciplinary red and yellow cards after officiating at one of the most infamous games in World Cup history, died at age 86. Aston thought of the yellow and red cards after working a 1966 World Cup quarterfinal between England and Argentina in which several players did not realize they had been booked. As chairman of FIFA's referees committee, the cards were introduced -- along with several other Aston recommendations -- for the 1970 World Cup.

 Oct. 27 -- Jaakko Tuominen, captain of the Finnish track team at the 1964 and '68 Olympics, died at age 57.

 Oct. 29 -- Girts Ostenieks, 33, an alternate driver on Latvia's Olympic bobsled team was killed during a practice run when he when he plowed headfirst into an empty sled that had drifted into his path.

 Oct. 29 -- Nureyev, a champion European racehorse, died at age 24. Nureyev, a son of the great Northern Dancer out of Special, was bred at Claiborne Farm and topped the 1978 Keeneland July Select Yearling Sale with a winning bid of $1.3 million, at the time the second-highest price paid for a yearling. He sired 130 stakes winners. Among his most successful offspring are Breeders' Cup winners Spinning World, Miesque and Theatrical as well as Peintre Celebre, the winner of the 1997 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

 Oct. 30 -- Art Wall Jr., the 1959 Masters champion who had more than 40 aces during his career, died at age 77.

 Oct. 31 -- Regine Cavagnoud, 31, a French skiing champion died of head injuries sustained two days earlier in a training-run collision with a German ski coach in Innsbruck, Austria. Cavagnoud, who won last season's super-G World Cup, was third overall in the World Cup standings.