The Orange hue was bright at the 2009 Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony Monday night at the Liverpool Holiday Inn. The 23rd class included four inductees with Syracuse athletics ties, including former sports information director Larry Kimball, football letterwinner Keith Moody, volleyball head coach Kris Terrillion, and men's basketball head coach Edmund Dollard. Other class members include Beth Mowins (SU, Master's in Broadcasting '90) and John Sherlock. The 2009 class brings the total number of inductees to 174 since the inception of the Hall of Fame in 1987.
Larry Kimball
Kimball began his career at Syracuse in 1966 and spent the next 31 years as the sports information director, becoming known as “The Dean” of the BIG EAST Conference. As a former newspaperman in Norwich and Utica, Kimball never lost perspective about his job on the Hill. He attended 383 football games in a row, which led the nation at the time of his retirement in 1997. Kimball worked the IRA Regattas for 42 consecutive years, 30 of which he served as the co-director, and he also worked the Pan American Games and National Sports Festival as a press steward.
Kimball has been recognized by his peers for the high standards he set for sports information directors. A past president of the ECAC Sports Information Directors Association, Kimball received its Service Bureau Award. He has also been honored by the All-American Football Foundation, U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, College Sports Information Directors Association, and SU's Varsity Club as a Letterwinner of Distinction. He is a longtime president of Blind Men and Criers.
Keith Moody
An All-State running back and defensive back from Nottingham High School, local football standout Moody donned the Orange from 1972-75. After college, he played for the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders, earning a Super Bowl Championship with the Raiders in 1981. Moody holds the record for the longest punt return in Bills history—91 yards against the Cleveland Browns.
After retiring from the NFL, Moody coached high school and college football for ten years and then shifted his career towards school administration. Currently, Moody resides in California and is principal of Mountain View High School.
Kris Terrillion
A legendary high school volleyball coach, Terrillion also served as head coach of the SU volleyball team from 1983-85, where she earned the BIG EAST Coach of the Year award in 1984.
Terrillion began her teaching career at LaFayette High School in 1972, where she started the girls' sports program. Throughout the years she coached a number of sports, including soccer, softball and basketball. For 29 years, Terrillion was head coach of the volleyball team, resulting in a 506-76 overall record. She led her teams to 26 league championships, 17 sectional championships and 10 regional championships.
Terrillion was involved with the New York Empire State Games and was also a member of the USA East Volleyball Team. She was inducted into the Cortland State Hall of Fame (1992), received the Walt Disney American Teacher Award (1991), numerous Section III honors, and received a National Coaching Award (1989).
Edmund Dollard
In 1913-14, head coach Dollard led the Syracuse Orangemen to an undefeated basketball season, 12-0. His coaching era spanned from 1911-24 and was called “among the brightest products in the history of the game,” by former Syracuse Herald Journal sports editor Arnie Burdick. Dollard finished with a 148-56 record, a .725 winning percentage. During his coaching tenure, he tallied 11 consecutive winning seasons and a National Championship in 1917-18 as designated by the Helms Foundation. At one point in his career, SU won 46 consecutive home games.
A 1904 graduate of CBA and 1908 graduate of Syracuse, Dollard played varsity baseball and basketball. He was 79 years old when he passed away in 1964. Besides from coaching basketball, Dollard served a number of local positions during his business career from tax commissioner to real estate executive.
Profile content courtesy of Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame
