Print, Photographic

Photograph

Shanaman Sports Museum

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

2007.24.216

Description

Tacoma's Mike McMurtry (far left) sits with his teammates on the Idaho State College's boxing team at a restaurant in New Orleans. McMurtry won a NCAA heavyweight title while boxing for Idaho State in 1954. After graduating from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, McMurtry boxed at Gonzaga University two years on a scholarship then transferred to Idaho State when Gonzaga dropped its boxing program. From left to right in the photo there's McMurtry, Dan Axtman, Cy Shepardson Roger Rouse, Ron Rall, John Luckovich and L.G. Neal. All of them are wearing their Idaho State jackets. In 1981, Idaho State inducted McMurtry into their school's Hall of Fame.

Made/Created

Place

Location

New Orleans, LA

Lexicon

Search Terms

Boxing, Professional/Semi-Pro, College

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Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

McMurtry, Mike

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Idaho State College

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Axtman, Dan

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Shepardson, Cy

Person or Organization

Rouse, Roger

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Rall, Ron

Person or Organization

Luckovich, John

Person or Organization

Neal, L.G.