ROYAL BROUGHAM – Media
Easily the dean of Northwest sportswriters after a career of nearly 60 years. He gained wide renown for his versatility. A veritable globetrotter, he traveled to many nations while specializing in covering the Olympic Games and heavyweight championship fights for The Seattle P-I.
GALE BISHOP – Basketball
From his bio for the Washington State University Hall of Fame:
“Gale Bishop was the first great scorer in Cougar basketball history. Although his playing career at Washington State was interrupted by service in World War II, and he only played portions of the 1943 and 1946 seasons, Bishop scored 874 points and was selected to the All-Time Pacific Coast Conference first team. A native of Sumas, Wash., he set a Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division scoring record with 224 points in 1943, although he missed two games because of call-up to military duty. That same year, he was named All-PCC and Helms Foundation All-America and set an AAU single-game scoring mark with 50 points. He was an All-Northern Division choice in 1942, 1943 and 1946.”
After WSU, the 6-foot-3 Bishop played one season with the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA. He averaged 8.3 points over 56 games.
TURK EDWARDS – Football
From his NFL Hall of Fame bio:
“Albert Glen Edwards — much better known as “Turk” first gained prominence as an All-America tackle at Washington State and as a star on the Cougars’ 1931 Rose Bowl squad. When he finished college a year later, he received offers from three National Football League clubs and he chose the highest bid –- $1,500 for 10 games from the newly organized Boston Braves, a team that would later take the name Boston Redskins and then move to Washington in 1937.
Signing Edwards was a sensational move for the new team for Turk responded with nine superior seasons, winning All-NFL honors from major media outlets every year of his career except his last one. A 6-2, 255-pound tackle does not create unusual notice today, but in the 1930s, a player of that stature stood out like the Rock of Gibraltar. And that is the way Edwards played the game — typifying overwhelming strength and power and yet he possessed enough agility to do a superb job every minute of every game.
Like many of his time, Turk was an iron man, playing on both offense and defense. Edwards continued to stand out long after the Boston Redskins had become the Washington Redskins, but almost unbelievably, the seemingly indestructible Edwards was injured at a coin-tossing ceremony prior to a game against the New York Giants in the 1940 season. After calling the coin toss and shaking hands with the opposing team captain, Edwards attempted to pivot around to head back to his sideline. However, his cleats caught in the grass and his oft-injured knee gave way, bringing his season and career to an unusual end.
He stayed on with the Redskins first as an assistant coach and then as head coach until after the 1946 season. Then after 17 straight campaigns with the Redskins, Edwards retired from pro football.”
Edwards was inducted in the NFL Hall of Fame in 1969 where he is joined by WSU teammate Mel Hein. Edwards grew up close to Pullman, graduating from Clarkston High.
