SPORTS HALL OF FAME

The purpose of the North Carolina A&T Sports Hall of Fame Corporation is to provide charitable and educational assistance in the form of financial contributions and services to the North Carolina A&T State University Department of Athletics. We want to preserve and promote the rich A&T heritage of athletic excellence, advance academic excellence among student-athletes by offering scholarships for all sports and encourage skill development. High academic achievement and increased marketability among all students and athletes upon graduation is our objective. We also seek to reinforce the accuracy and consistency of information dissemination relating to the athletics program. As well as assist the institution with informing the extended university community about the quality offerings of NC A&T State University. Therefore, it is expressly declared that the Sports Hall of Famers Foundation is a non-profit organization and that no person connected, associated or having a membership with said Foundation shall receive any form of remuneration or financial benefit as a result thereof.
    The purpose of the Hall of Fame is to honor former athletes and persons who excelled in their performances in or connected with North Carolina A&T State University varsity sports.  These persons have brought esteem, recognition and fame to themselves and their alma mater. In the 1960s, some A&T Alumni, aware of the lack of recognition accorded African-American athletes, and realizing the need for assistance by the athletics department, organized the Athletic Liason Committee. In the early 70s,  six members of the committee formed the A&T Aggie Sportsman Club and seriously explored the idea of an Aggie Sports Hall of Fame to promote A&T Athletics. Prime movers of this group were "Jug" Douglass, Helburn "Bud" Meadows, Matthew Wingate, Fred Dawson, W. Edward Jenkins and Joe Williams. They were alert to the fact that A&T students and the nation knew little about the exploits of stellar A&T Aggie sports heroes such as "Horse" Lane, Sam Bruce, "Stonewall" Jackson, Ed Martin, "Pecky" Conway and more!

Even though these visionaries armed themselves with a Hall of Fame dream, the dreamers discovered sponsoring the Sports Hall of Fame required expertise and finances. For the former, they relied upon the late Matthew Brown, a former A&T football and tennis coach, who freely used his experience to guide the fledgling group. Aggies J. Kenneth Lee, attorney, and W. Edward Jenkins, architect, solved the finance problem. Bob Barringer, a local businessman, joined them in sponsoring the first event in 1971. As a result, many outstanding A&T student-athletes and coaches have earned enshrinement into the Hall of Fame, and the waiting list of nominees is lengthy and impressive.

We have a glorious heritage on the various playing surfaces, but we also have a constant quest for excellence in the classroom. No matter the occasion, Aggies plan to finish first!!