Football 7 KCAC (1922, 1927–1928, 1934, 1937, 1941–1942)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1975 (profile)
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
Emil Smith "Liz" Liston (August 21, 1890 – October 26, 1949) was an American athletic coach and administrator. He coached basketball, football and baseball at Wesleyan University and Baker University. He was the founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, organized the NAIA college basketball tournament in 1937 and served as the first executive director of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (predecessor to the NAIA) from 1940 to 1949. He was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975.
Emil Smith "Liz" Liston (August 21, 1890 – October 26, 1949) was an American athletic coach and administrator. He coached basketball, football and baseball...
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – December 30, 1970), nicknamed "The Big Bear", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. A...
1937, James Naismith and local leaders, including George Goldman and EmilListon, staged the first National College Basketball Tournament at Municipal...
association with Baker University Basketball Coach EmilListon, he became familiar and impressed with EmilListon's fraternity at Baker University, Sigma Phi Epsilon...
Schlademan (1916–1918) Arthur F. Smith (1919) EmilListon (1920–1937) C. W. Ridgeway (1938–1939) EmilListon (1940–1942) No team (1943–1945) Karl Spear (1946–1962)...
University, the University of Central Missouri and the University of Kansas EmilListon basketball coach (1930–1945) and administrator, inductee to Basketball...
named for former Baker football coach and athletic director EmilListon. "Time to blackout Liston Stadium tonight". Baldwin City Signal. October 7, 2011....
(1913) Richard E. Eustis (1914–1915) Dan Kenan (1916) Edgar Fauver (1917) EmilListon (1918–1919) Dan Kenan (1920) Edgar Fauver (1921) John Martin (1922–1924)...
football player; Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle, Dallas Cowboys EmilListon Former head coach, Baker University, Michigan Technological University...
(1913) Richard E. Eustis (1914–1915) Dan Kenan (1916) Edgar Fauver (1917) EmilListon (1918–1919) Dan Kenan (1920) Edgar Fauver (1921) John Martin (1922–1924)...
attended Baker College, playing football and basketball under head coach EmilListon. He graduated from Baker in 1948 after a stint in the military and later...
Schlademan (1916–1918) Arthur F. Smith (1919) EmilListon (1920–1937) C. W. Ridgeway (1938–1939) EmilListon (1940–1942) No team (1943–1945) Karl Spear (1946–1962)...
Wilder, writer, husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1857) October 26 – EmilListon, sports coach and administrator (born 1890) October 31 – Edward Stettinius...
Ewing Kauffman Al Kelley Bob Kenney John Kuck Lon Kruger Bill Lienhard EmilListon Cleo Littleton Clyde Lovellette Danny Manning Harold Manning Xavier McDaniel...
Schlademan (1916–1918) Arthur F. Smith (1919) EmilListon (1920–1937) C. W. Ridgeway (1938–1939) EmilListon (1940–1942) No team (1943–1945) Karl Spear (1946–1962)...
(1913) Richard E. Eustis (1914–1915) Dan Kenan (1916) Edgar Fauver (1917) EmilListon (1918–1919) Dan Kenan (1920) Edgar Fauver (1921) John Martin (1922–1924)...
Schlademan (1916–1918) Arthur F. Smith (1919) EmilListon (1920–1937) C. W. Ridgeway (1938–1939) EmilListon (1940–1942) No team (1943–1945) Karl Spear (1946–1962)...
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