Which State Has Produced the Most Elite Athletes?
And How Does Tennessee Measure up?
Back in the Fall I did a series of Twitter threads with a thorough examination of how recruiting prowess is tantamount to winning big on a national level in college football. I laid out in stark terms that Tennessee must improve markedly in bringing in high end talent to compete with the Alabama’s and Ohio State’s of the world. One entry I looked at was to what extent in state talent has expanded with the population boom in the state, specifically in Metro Nashville. That got me to thinking—how does the state of Tennessee compare to the rest of the nation producing athletes across all sports historically. The problem was scope, scale, and parameters. How does one measure such a thing? I couldn’t very well survey how many high school kids received D1 scholarships in every state at every University in multiple sports. That would be a job for a staff of dozens to evaluate even one year let alone the last 100+ years.
So, I decided to gear down and look at the very top of each sport (well, not EVERY sport. Stay with me, I’ll get to that) essentially from the beginning. I have reviewed every member (players, not coaches or “contributors”) of the Professional Hall Of Fames in football—Canton, baseball—Cooperstown, and basketball—Springfield. I also looked at every Heisman winner (Why the Heisman you ask? For all its flaws it is the single most prestigious individual award in American sports) plus every American winner in each of the four golf major championships (Masters, PGA Championship, US Open, British Open) and Grand Slam winners in tennis (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open). I then determined as best I could where each of these individuals developed aptitude in their chosen sport by city and state. Be sure to understand, this is NOT necessarily where an athlete was born although often that was the case. I tend to think of it as an individuals formative years. Where did they learn the game? Because I have none of these men on speed dial plus many of whom are dead, I wasn’t able to conduct interviews I am sorry to say. I simply Googled every name and read the first bio that popped up. Yes that was frequently Wikipedia but not always. Most were clear cut. Some there was a lot of grey and still others the reality was opaque. If things were particularly uncertain, I would go with the city and state a player graduated high school from. One that comes to mind is Pete Maravich who seemed to live in a different town every year with his nomadic coaching father. In his case, I just went with his birthplace of Aliquippa, PA. You also have a fair many, especially in baseball, born in the 1800’s where biographical data is sketchy or unreliable. I would imagine several of these guys out of over 1000 would say to me, “No you got that wrong. I didn’t come from X, I came from Y.” That is fine. We are looking to be as accurate as possible but perfection is not the goal. I am confident that upward of 95% are fair representations of each states relative production.
Now you might ask three things:
1) Why would you bother with this when everyone knows the leaders are California, Texas, and New York? That is more or less true but I was more interested in A) How the southern states compared and in relation to each other. B) The states who have had no success at all. C) Specific cities that have had an astonishing disproportionate share of riches (Hello Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Dallas/Fort Worth).
2) Why include tennis and golf? Because I like both sports and although niche command big dollars at the highest level. Tennis especially requires insane athleticism both with speed and hand/eye coordination. Golf is obviously more a skill than a sport but outside of college football it is my primary interest. I do regret leaving out boxing and especially Olympic sports. Some of our best athletes were Olympians—Jesse Owens, Bruce Jenner, Carl Lewis, Michael Phelps, etc. But there are just too many of them both in sports and athletes. If I looked at all those I would never finish. Plus you have many team events—should I credit the entire gold medal winning basketball team? The curlers? Maybe so but I did not want to pick and choose which was important so I just excluded them all. Boxing I could probably do but with all those federations and weight classes it is just a cluster now.
3) Why didn’t you include women’s sports? The short answer is I am not interested in that. The practical answer is I do not believe their inclusion would make much difference in the point of the post. Which is to see which states produce athletes at the highest level. I would say the numbers would look roughly the same state by state if added in. In other words, the states producing the most male athletes are likely doing the same with women. If you want to take the time and research that arm of this for yourself, feel free. Tag me and let me know how it goes.
Let me first get out of the way those states which have no representation at all in any of the twelve categories measured: Alaska, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. None of these of course are surprising in the least and about anyone could have predicted such. Except Maine is a bit of a head scratcher considering every other New England state was able to make a mark somewhere, even if was just once. Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire all make an appearance. Connecticut has been incredibly lucrative relative to population. I will give a full ranking state by state at the end of the post.
My page here will be very Tennessee centric other than golf so I will give a rundown of my homestate’s performance first then add some commentary for each sport and selected states where pertinent.
For Tennessee there is good news and bad news although mostly bad by my estimation. There are 13 homegrown Tennessean’s who have reached the pinnacle of their respective sports and here they are:
Pro Football Hall Of Fame: Gene Hickerson (Trenton), Claude Humphrey (Memphis), Doug Atkins (Humboldt), Reggie White (Chattanooga), Patrick Willis (Bruceton)
Baseball Hall Of Fame: Turkey Stearnes (Nashville), Todd Helton (Knoxville)
Basketball Hall Of Fame: Bailey Howell (Middleton)
Heisman Award: Steve Spurrier (Johnson City)
Masters Winner: Cary Middlecoff (Memphis)
PGA Championship: Shaun Micheel (Memphis)
US Open Golf Winners: Lou Graham (Nashville), Middlecoff—Twice
Australian Open Tennis: Roscoe Tanner (Chattanooga)
On the bright side, Tennessee scored points in all 5 sports surveyed including 8 of the 12 categories measured missing out only on the British Open, and 3 of the 4 tennis Slams. Tanner’s Australian Open win is the only tennis Slam won by any state in the original SEC footprint other than Florida. Two of these guys (Helton and Willis) will be inducted THIS YEAR hopefully forecasting an uptick in future achievement. The reality is Tennessee has underperformed relative to its southern neighbors in raw numbers, losing out to states like Kentucky and Arkansas with lesser populations and with a demographic disadvantage. As stated I will rank the entire country with details but here are the total players for each southern state excluding Florida. Louisiana 33, Virginia 31, Georgia 27, Alabama 26, North Carolina 25, Arkansas 18, Kentucky 17, Tennessee 14, South Carolina 13, Mississippi 12. This is poor performance and development at the youth level, there is no way around it. One can only hope the population explosion will be a salve as time marches on.
Now for some general observations for selected states and each sport.
Something like this you figure it begins and ends with California and you would be correct. With a population that doubles even New York and Florida plus year round postcard weather for wide swaths of the land, there is no mystery here. I was however taken aback at how profound the gap was with any other state and especially how they’ve set the standard in every sport. California not only leads its closest competitor Texas by a nearly 2 to 1 ratio, it is also the only state to have at least one inductee in all three Halls, a Heisman winner, and a winner of all 8 of the golf and tennis Majors. In fact they have at least two in all twelve. California also leads not only the total but is first or tied for 1st in ten of the twelve categories—1st in Cooperstown inductees, 1st in Heisman winners, 1st in all four tennis Slams, 1st in PGA Championships and British Opens, and tied for first with Texas in Canton inductees and US Open golf wins. It is second in the other two—Behind New York in Springfield inductees and behind Texas in Masters wins. As I got deeper into this I began to drill down into specific cities as well. For California it is very predictable that Metro Los Angeles is the driver with 50 of California’s 156 total. Interestingly enough, only one of these came from the golf world (Colin Morikawa) unless you count Tiger Woods who grew up in Anaheim. The majority of the remainder is from the Bay Area and San Diego. There are small towns represented but not at all to the same extent as the other states aside from New York City.
The only state resembling a peer to California is Texas and it comes from exactly where you would think—king football and golf. I’ll get more into this later but in relation to golf especially Texas is quite prolific. Texas lags behind several states in baseball and is way down the list in basketball Hall of Famers which I find strange. Stranger is there is but one Grand Slam tennis champion from Texas ever. They don’t have any rich white kids that play tennis down there? Honestly it speaks to the classism of tennis which I’ll also touch on briefly later. While the Metro areas lead the way, specifically Dallas/Fort Worth, there is much greater dispersion in small towns than seen in California. Every corner of the state it seems produced somebody great. We are talking from Eagle Pass to Waco, Seguin to Alvin, Giddings to San Antonio and all areas in between.
An exceptionally startling and impressive carve out can be done all the way to a specific high school. Highland Park High School (granted only 4 miles north of downtown Dallas) has an incredible two alums in Canton (Doak Walker and Bobby Layne), a Heisman winner (Walker), a two time Masters Champion (Scottie Scheffler), a US Amateur and Mid Amateur Champion (Hank and Trip Kuehne) which I’m not measuring but still, and will definitely add one more to Cooperstown (Clayton Kershaw) and likely another to Canton (Matthew Stafford). That blows my mind. I would bet a large percentage of high schools have never had even one athlete get a D1 scholarship.
That permits an excellent segue to Pennsylvania, our third most fertile state overall and well accounted for in all sports. In football though, singling out Metro Pittsburgh, it is in a league of its own. Pittsburgh has its own super High School in Aliquippa with three Canton inductees (Mike Ditka, Ty Law, and Darrelle Revis plus Tony Dorsett is from Aliquippa but went to Hopewell 2 miles away) but its fabled Quarterback production is beyond belief. Any serious football fan is aware of this but when you proportion the magnitude to your own life in black and white it gets harder to believe. Think of it this way—I’ll use Knoxville as my comparator: Suppose Johnny Unitas was at Knoxville High School in 1950. Ten years later about 30 miles northwest Joe Namath is graduating at Campbell County High. In 1973, Joe Montana is in the midst of the beginning of Maryville’s dominance. Then in 1977 and 1978 you have two more—Dan Marino at Farragut and Jim Kelly 60 miles away in Jellico. That is five Hall Of Fame QB’s within 28 years in a 60 mile radius. Heck, the best QB the state of Tennessee ever produced other than Spurrier is probably Andy Kelly and that’s not intended to be a knock on Andy. Though I know the above to be facts I still find it incomprehensible.
New York is not the Leviathan one would think. Specifically outside of the NYC boroughs and particularly if you exclude basketball (I’ll get to that shortly). It does rate 4th overall on our list and has some representation in all groups except the French Open. But relative to population there just isn’t much there with football being almost non existent although they do have two Heisman winners (Ernie Davis and Vinny Testaverde).
Ohio is a bit behind one of its chief rivals in Pennsylvania but is much more well rounded with credits in every category except the Australian Open and 30 overall Major Championships in golf and tennis (granted that can be ascribed almost solely to two men—Jack Nicklaus in golf and Tony Trabert in tennis). Ohio also trails only California with 12 Heisman Trophies (From Cleveland: Desmond Howard, Troy Smith, Les Horvath. From Columbus: Archie Griffin twice, Howard Cassady. From Cincinnati: Roger Staubach. From Elyria: Vic Janowicz. From Maumee: Dick Kazmaier. From Fremont: Charles Woodson. From Plains: Joe Burrow. From Youngstown: Frank Sinkwich). Ohio also holds the distinction of being the only state to have an inductee in one of the three HOF’s from the same town that Hall is located—Marion Motley, Alan Page and Dan Dierdorf were all raised in Canton.
Of the larger states with a noteworthy metropolitan base the consummate underachiever is far and away Michigan ranking only 17th among all states and a pathetic 22 overall players posting results. Not only is Michigan far behind the California’s and Ohio’s of the Union but states such as Missouri, North Carolina, Alabama, Indiana, Virginia and even MASSACHUSETTS has outperformed them. There is no sport that can be pointed to as a strength with a virtually non existent effort in the fringe sports of golf and tennis—it has two PGA Championship winners neither of which you've ever heard of (Leo Diegel and Walter Burkemo). With the 10th largest population (and that is today, it was 7th in 1960 for example) this is comical ineptitude by the Wolverine state.
Now for the smaller states and the South—the overachievers in several cases so to speak. The first one that really pops off the page is Connecticut. This state is of course small geographically but more people than you would assume with its proximity to NYC. It is still about the 42nd percentile by citizens currently yet has a respectable 15 athletes in this survey. Which is by far the highest of the small northeast states aside for Massachusetts which has the benefit of Boston.
The most surprising performance to me though was by Arkansas which if forced to rank prior to the research I would have ranked it dead last in the South even behind Mississippi. Arkansas has fewer people than even Nevada or Utah and also has a disadvantage demographically. But Arkansas has done relatively very well, particularly in football with seven inductees in Canton (and has three golf Major Championships). I would be remiss without grouping Kentucky here which is larger than Arkansas by a lot but features similar demographics. Kentucky has a Heisman (Paul Hornung) which Arkansas does not plus its strength is predictably basketball with eight enshrinements in Springfield.
Louisiana, if excluding Florida which I’ll address separately, is your surprising winner throughout the South and the entire nation outside of California, Texas, New York, and the population dense Rust Belt. The difference maker is 13 members in Canton which is four more than either Georgia or Alabama. Speaking of Georgia, it ranks way below a few states that you would not think, notably Virginia at a 31 to 27 deficit. If this project is revisited in 100 years I suspect there will be a much different story.
Florida is in a similar boat as Georgia in that it may not be as high as you think. But it is still tied for 6th overall and will only increase proportionally as time passes. Even given the head start by the states above it Florida has scored in 11 of 12 categories, missing only Wimbledon which betters every other state except California, Ohio and New York.
Interesting maybe only to me in each sport:
Football—Canton was opened in 1963 and has 321 members by my count that were American born or raised. Texas, California, and Pennsylvania are the runaway leaders at 32, 32, and 31 players respectively. Within specific cities, the metro areas (defined broadly) with the highest participation are Houston (6), Dallas (5), Los Angeles (13), San Francisco (8), Pittsburgh (12), Philadelphia (5), and Chicago (11). Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and New Jersey are interesting in that all have 9 or more members and every one of them come from a different town. The state of Maryland has no representation in Canton. Really?!
As for the Heisman Trophy, Greater Los Angeles leads again with five winners. San Diego has four, Dallas, Cleveland, and Columbus three each. Alabama has three winners all of whom attended high school within 60 miles of Tuscaloosa yet none played for the Tide (Pat Sullivan—Birmingham, Bo Jackson—McCalla, Jameis Winston—Hueytown). 24 states have never had a Heisman winner including conspicuously Arkansas, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Hawaii has only Marcus Mariota to thank from being shut out of everything like Alaska.
Baseball—Cooperstown was opened in 1939 and by my count has 253 players that were American raised. California has a massive lead with 37 inductees with its closest competitor being Pennsylvania with 20. Los Angeles with 13 and the Bay Area of San Francisco/Oakland with 11 lead the way. Other prominent cities are Pittsburgh (surprise, surprise) with 13, Boston with 7, and New York City (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan) with 9. Displaying the reach baseball had at one time the scattering otherwise is noticeable. Baltimore has 4, Philadelphia 3, Chicago 3, Mobile!!! 3, and less than a handful with two each. One oddity is that a place in Illinois called Nokomis with a current population of 2100 and 3 hours from Chicago has two members—Red Ruffing and Jim Bottomley. Also New Hampshire makes its only appearance on any list here with Carlton Fisk as does Rhode Island with three members—Nap Lajoie and Gabby Hartnett both of Woonsocket and Hugh Duffy of Cranston.
Basketball—Springfield was opened in 1968 and I have counted 177 American groomed players. Now, allow me a tangent here: This is the newest Hall in the sport with the least amount of professional history using the fewest players in a game. Yet it houses only 76 fewer players than Cooperstown? As I started going through the list I noticed a pattern that became more and more annoying. One white guy after another from 80 years ago none of whom could beat me in Around The World. And amazingly enough a whimsical number of them just happened to hail from New York City. 31 total players from New York state and 27 of them from the city, at least half of which not even a knowledgeable sports fan would recognize. I got so fed up with it I nearly threw out the entire sport but a cooler head prevailed. But the whole thing looks like an Upper East Side vanity project.
At any rate without the farce that is the Naismith Museum, New York would be just ahead of Louisiana in total production. In relation to population base this is one weak ass effort, especially in football and tennis. Within the cities, Los Angles is surprisingly mid with only four members which is equaled by Oakland. Chicago is the most prolific member aside from NYC with nine, Philadelphia with eight, and Detroit with five. Florida and Texas are weak with only 3 and 5 respectively.
I will finish with golf and tennis paired together. Golf has long been considered the white, privileged sport. Tennis too but you don’t hear the same noise about that issue. I would submit that tennis is far more elite at the top with golf having a more egalitarian set of winners. The reasons for that are likely highly nuanced but I believe it comes down to the fact that despite barriers to top clubs a talented kid with the work ethic to dig it out of the dirt can succeed on their own. With tennis, you have to have hitting partners and talented ones at that. Hitting against a garage door can only take you so far.
In golf there is Texas, California, Jack Nicklaus then everybody else. Let’s take Texas first, emphasizing Dallas/Fort Worth. Texas has 9 Masters winners (15 total Green Jackets) with 5 coming from the Metroplex. Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson grew up together in the same caddyshack at a now closed country club in Fort Worth. That area has an additional 3 PGA Championship winners, 1 additional US Open winner, and 1 additional British Open winner. In sum, Texas has 44 golf major championships. California has been equally lethal although not as concentrated in one city with 44 total wins as well but coming from 23 different cities/towns versus 15 for Texas. Ohio has 25 major championships but of course 18 of those are Nicklaus. There are many, many outliers which are rare in tennis led by Keegan Bradley’s PGA win which is Vermont’s only mark on the board.
Tennis is a much more concentrated rabbit hole. It should be said that American males have been mostly second tier in tennis compared to golf. Consider—there have been 467 professional golf majors contested and Americans have won 274 of them, a rather amazing 59%. There have been 518 tennis Grand Slam events and Americans have only won 138, a paltry 27%. For someone my Son’s age this would be no surprise as he’s known nothing but the Federer, Nadal, Djokovic triumvirate. When I was growing up you had Connors and McEnroe then Agassi and Sampras and you figured it was always that way but it was decidedly not. Now—there are reasons for this beyond just skill and would require an entire separate post to break down. But a significant factor is that 3 of the 4 golf majors are held on American soil while only 1 of the 4 tennis Slams are. The travel costs to Australia especially were prohibitive for decades. Jimmy Connors for example only played the Australian Open twice (winning once) in a career that lasted until he was 43!
Within the states though there really isn’t much to examine. None of the southern states including Florida have had any success at all other than the aforementioned wins by Roscoe Tanner of Tennessee and Wilmer Allison of Texas. Jim Courier of Florida won in Australia and Paris and Andy Roddick won in New York. Arthur Ashe of Virginia had two wins as well if you want to call that the South. That is IT. California is the only state to provide significant representation with 44 of the 138 wins. The remainder are anomalies such as Connors of Illinois, Trabert of Ohio, McEnroe of New York, Agassi of Nevada, and a spattering of others mostly contained in the northeast before the Open era of 1968.
That will conclude our review. I hope you found this informative at least. I can certainly admit that while it seemed like a good idea at the time, this was perhaps a relatively boring read. Below I have listed every state and its performance in every category. I was going to list every single player but this is long enough as it is and it would be well over 1000 men. Should you want to see any particular category or all of them for that matter, make no mistake that I have them all. Comment or hit me up on Twitter and I’ll EMAIL them to you.
California 156
Canton 32
Cooperstown 37
Springfield 16
Heisman 16
Masters 6 (12 wins)
PGA 7 (12 wins)
US Open Golf 9 (12 wins)
British 6 (8 wins)
Australian 3 (4 wins)
French 2
Wimbledon 10 (17 wins)
US Open Tennis 12 (21 wins)
Texas 90
Canton 32
Cooperstown 11
Springfield 5
Heisman 11
Masters 9 (15 wins)
PGA 9 (11 wins)
US Open Golf 7 (12 wins)
British 5 (6 wins)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open 1 (Wilmer Allison)
Pennsylvania 86
Canton 31
Cooperstown 20
Springfield 16
Heisman 6
Masters 2 (5 wins)
PGA 0
US Open Golf 4 (5 wins)
British 1 (2 wins-Arnold Palmer)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 3 (5 wins)
US Open Tennis 3 (8 wins)
New York 75
Canton 7
Cooperstown 19
Springfield 31
Heisman 2
Masters 2
PGA 5 (11 wins)
US Open Golf 8 (9 wins)
British 2 (5 wins)
Australian 1 (Vitas Gerulaitis)
Wimbledon 1 (3 wins-John McEnroe)
US Open Tennis 5 (13 wins)
Ohio 68
Canton 24
Cooperstown 14
Springfield 6
Heisman 11 (12 winners)
Masters 1 (6 wins-Jack Nicklaus)
PGA 4 (9 wins)
US Open 1 (4 wins-Nicklaus)
British 4 (6 wins)
Australian 0
French 1 (2 wins-Tony Trabert)
Wimbledon 1 (Trabert)
US Open 1 (2 wins-Trabert)
Illinois 50
Canton 15
Cooperstown 11
Springfield 14
Heisman 2
Masters 1 (Bob Goalby)
PGA 1 (Jerry Barber)
US Open Golf 1 (Chick Evans)
British 1 (Todd Hamilton)
Australian 1 (Jimmy Connors)
French 0
Wimbledon 1 (2 wins-Connors)
US Open 2 (9 wins)
Florida 50
Canton 23
Cooperstown 8
Springfield 3
Heisman 4
Masters 2 (3 wins)
PGA 3 (5 wins)
US Open Golf 2 (3 wins)
British 2
Australian 1 (2 wins-Jim Courier)
French 1 (2 wins-Courier)
US Open 1 (Andy Roddick)
Louisiana 33
Canton 13
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 6
Heisman 3
Masters 1 (Patrick Reed)
PGA 4
US Open Golf 1 (David Toms)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Virginia 31
Canton 11
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 7
Heisman 0
Masters 1 (3 wins-Sam Snead)
PGA 3 (5 wins)
US Open Golf 2 (3 wins)
British 1 (Snead)
Australian 1 (Arthur Ashe)
French 0
Wimbledon 1 (Ashe)
US Open Tennis 1 (Ashe)
Georgia 27
Canton 9
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 1 (Walt Frazier)
Heisman 4
Masters 2
PGA 2 (3 wins)
US Open Golf 2 (5 wins)
British 2 (4 wins)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Indiana 27
Canton 3
Cooperstown 11
Springfield 9
Heisman 1 (Tom Harmon)
Masters 1 (Fuzzy Zoeller)
PGA 1 (Bob Hamilton)
US Open Golf 1 (Zoeller)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open 0
Alabama 26
Canton 9
Cooperstown 9
Springfield 2
Heisman 3
Masters 0
PGA 1 (Hubert Green)
US Open Golf 1 (Green)
British 1 (Stewart Cink)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
North Carolina 25
Canton 6
Cooperstown 6
Springfield 9
Heisman 0
Masters 1 (Raymond Floyd)
PGA 2 (Floyd)
US Open Golf 1 (Floyd)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
New Jersey 25
Canton 9
Cooperstown 4
Springfield 5
Heisman 2
Masters 0
PGA 1 (Vic Ghezzi)
US Open Golf 0
British 0
Australian 2
French 0
Wimbledon 1 (Dick Savitt)
US Open Tennis 1 (7 wins)
Massachusetts 25
Canton 4
Cooperstown 11
Springfield 1 (Patrick Ewing)
Heisman 3
Masters 1 (Henry Picard)
PGA 1 (Henry Picard)
US Open 1 (Francis Ouimet)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 3 (9 wins)
Missouri 23
Canton 5
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 5
Heisman 0
Masters 3 (5 wins)
PGA 1 (Payne Stewart)
US Open Golf 2 (3 wins)
British 1 (5 wins-Tom Watson)
Australian 0
French
Wimbledon 1 (Chuck McKinley)
US Open Tennis 0
Michigan 22
Canton 4
Cooperstown 7
Springfield 7
Heisman 2
Masters 0
PGA 2 (3 wins)
US Open Golf 0
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Oklahoma 20
Canton 4
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 3
Heisman 4
Masters 0
PGA 1 (Bob Tway)
US Open 1 (Tommy Bolt)
British 0
Australian 0
French 1 (Don McNeil)
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 1 (Don McNeil)
Arkansas 19
Canton 8
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 3
Heisman 0
Masters 0
PGA 2 (3 wins)
US Open Golf 0
British 1 (John Daly)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open 0
Wisconsin 17
Canton 8
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 1
Heisman 1 (Alan Ameche)
Masters 0
PGA 1 (Johnny Revolta)
US Open Golf 1 (2 wins-Andy North)
British 0
Australian 0
French 1 (2 wins-Frank Parker)
Wimbledon 0
US Open 1 (2 wins-Parker)
Kentucky 17
Canton 2
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 8
Heisman 1 (Paul Hornung)
Masters 1 (Gay Brewer)
PGA 2 (3 wins)
US Open Golf 0
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Minnesota 15
Canton 4
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 2
Heisman 2
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open Golf 0
British 1 (Tom Lehman)
Australian 0
French 1 (Michael Chang)
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Connecticut 15
Canton 5
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 1 (Calvin Murphy)
Heisman 0
Masters 1 (Doug Ford)
PGA 3
US Open Golf 2 (3 wins)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Tennessee 14
Canton 5
Cooperstown 2
Springfield 1
Heisman 1
Masters 1
PGA 1
US Open 2 (3 wins)
British 0
Australian 1
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
South Carolina 13
Canton 4
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 3
Heisman 0
Masters 1 (Dustin Johnson)
PGA 0
US Open Golf 2
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Iowa 13
Canton 2
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 1
Heisman 2
Masters 1 (Zach Johnson)
PGA 0
US Open Golf 1 (Jack Fleck)
British 1 (Zach Johnson)
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Mississippi 12
Canton 9
Cooperstown 2
Springfield 0
Heisman 1 (Doc Blanchard)
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open Golf 0
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Nebraska 11
Canton 3
Cooperstown 5
Springfield 0
Heisman 2 (Johnny Rodgers, Eric Crouch)
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open 1 (Johnny Goodman)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Maryland 10
Canton 0
Cooperstown 8
Springfield 1
Heisman 0
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open Golf 1 (2 wins)
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Washington 10
Canton 4
Cooperstown 3
Springfield 2
Heisman 0
Masters 1 (Fred Couples)
PGA 0
US Open Golf 0
British 0
Australian 0
French 0
Wimbledon 0
US Open Tennis 0
Kansas 9
Canton 3
Cooperstown 2
Springfield 2
Heisman 1 (Barry Sanders)
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open 1 (Gary Woodland)
British 0
Colorado 8
Canton 3
Cooperstown 2
Springfield 0
Heisman 0
Masters 0
PGA 0
US Open Golf 3 (5 wins)
British 0
West Virginia 8
Canton 5
Cooperstown 1
Springfield 2
Oregon 7
Canton 4
Cooperstown 1
Springfield 1
Heisman 1 (Terry Baker)
Washington, D.C. 6
Canton 3
Cooperstown 0
Springfield 2
Heisman 1 (Caleb Williams)
Nevada 5
Cooperstown 1 (Greg Maddux)
Australian 1 (4 wins-Andre Agassi)
French 1 (Agassi)
Wimbledon 1 (Agassi)
US Open 1 (2 wins-Agassi)
New Mexico 3
Canton 2
PGA 1 (Rich Beem)
Delaware 3
Canton 1 (Randy White)
Cooperstown 2
Rhode Island 3
Cooperstown 3
Idaho 3
Canton 2
Cooperstown 1 (Harmon Killebrew)
Arizona 2
Canton 1 (Randall McDaniel)
Cooperstown 1 (Jim Palmer)
Utah 3
Canton 2
Springfield 1
Vermont 1
PGA (Keegan Bradley)
New Hampshire 1
Cooperstown (Carlton Fisk)
Hawaii 1
Heisman (Marcus Mariota)
No Representation In Any Category:
Alaska
Maine
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming