Rogers Among 2010 EMCC Sports Hall Of Fame Class

Oct. 11, 2010

SCOOBA, Miss. - Former Ole Miss sports information director Langston Rogers will be among eight new members of the East Mississippi Community College's Sports Hall of Fame inducted this weekend during homecoming festivities.

EMCC's 2010 Sports Hall of Fame class will be honored on the Scooba campus with a Friday night reception and banquet. The eight-member class is also scheduled to be recognized Saturday afternoon at midfield prior to the Lions' 2 p.m. homecoming football contest against Pearl River. Saturday's inter-divisional gridiron battle will take place at EMCC's Sullivan-Windham Field.

Rogers got his award-winning communications career in intercollegiate athletics started on the East Mississippi campus. Brought onboard by Hall of Fame football coach Bob "Bull" Sullivan, the Calhoun City native earned a baseball scholarship to EMJC. While serving as the Lions' publicity director and team statistician for two years (1962-63), Rogers was also the editor of the school newspaper, The Collegian.

Rogers moved on to Delta State, where he played baseball for Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Dave "Boo" Ferriss. After a 17-year stint at his alma mater working first as DSU's director of publicity and later as the school's first full-time sports information director, Rogers spent 29 years supervising the Ole Miss athletics media relations office until his retirement in May.

The former President and Hall of Famer of the College Sports Information Directors of America, Rogers was distinguished earlier this year with CoSIDA's Lifetime Achievement Award and the naming of a minority postgraduate scholarship in his name. Those honors go on a resumÃ© that also includes CoSIDA's 2001 Arch Ward Award, which is the highest award presented to a member of the national organization.

Other inductees of the 2010 class of the EMCC Sports Hall of Fame include EMCC President Emeritus Clois Cheatham (Preston); the late Don Darby (DeKalb); the late Leon Garner (Avon Park, Fla./Ackerman); the late Roy Knapp (Mobile, Ala.); Jack Newell (DeKalb); Fred Scoggins (Leroy, Ala.); and Jim Scribner (Martinez, Calif./Sturgis).

For additional information on the weekend's events, visit the school's website at www.eastms.edu.

The University of Mississippi Athletics

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