Sewanee has announced its 2014 Hall of Fame class that will be honored the weekend of Sept. 12-13: basketball and tennis player Blane Brooks (class of 1983); football players Frank Faulkinberry (1910), John Turner (1963) and Ben Tuck (2003); wrestler Frank Pinney (1963); softball pitcher Amy Owensby (2004); and the 1999 women’s tennis team that finished 22-4 and ranked seventh nationally with two
All-Americans and another nationally ranked player.
Faulkinberry was a four-time All-Southern player on Tigers teams that went 26-4-3 and outscored their opponents 715-114. He taught and coached multiple sports at Middle Tennessee State, where he directed the women’s basketball team to the 1929 national championship and has a campus street named in his honor.
Tuck holds school kicking records of 51 points in 2002 and the longest field goal (48 yards) and was a 2002 All-American, a two-time Academic All-American and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholar.
Turner was a three-year two-way tackle starter and a first-team all-conference player in 1962. Contemporary Pinney was captain of the 1963 wrestling team and an All-American and NCAA runner-up at 177 points, making him the highest-finishing individual finisher at an NCAA event in school history.