Hall of Fame
George Terry was a three-sport standout at College of the Ozarks from 1930-32. He was born in Newport in 1909, and his 1927 Batesville High School basketball team won the state title and was the runner-up in the National Tournament at Chicago. He received letters in football, basketball, and baseball at George Washington University in 1927-30 before transferring to Ozarks. Terry later coached at Sloan Hendrix Academy in 1933; Pine Bluff in 1934-38; Greenville, Mississippi, in 1939-42; and was the Pine Bluff head coach from 1946-54. After his Pine Bluff High School football teams went 49-12-6, which included a state championship in 1951, Terry worked as an assistant coach at Louisiana State University, West Point, and University of South Carolina. He also coached in the Canadian Football League where helped Ottawa to a Grey Cup Championship in 1960. LSU won the 1958 national title and Head Coach Paul Dietzel called Terry "the finest football scout and perhaps the best defensive coach I've ever seen." After Terry's death, University of South Carolina named its spring sports facility after him. He was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Batesville Area Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018.
