Archery Hall of Fame
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Inductees

1972
  • Fred Bear
    Fred Bear
    Fred Bear was an American bow hunter, bow manufacturer, author, and television host.He was born in the town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Although he did not start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely regarded as a pioneer in the bow-hunting community...

  • Howard Hill
    Howard Hill
    Howard Hill was an archer who was unofficially referred to as the "World's Greatest Archer". He is the only person to win 196 archery field tournaments in succession...

  • Ann Weber Hoyt
  • Karl E. Palmatier
  • Ben Pearson
    Ben Pearson (bowyer)
    Ben Pearson was an archer, bowyer, and fletcher from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He is most notable for starting the first company in the United states to mass-produce archery sets and equipment. In 1972, he was among the first inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame.-History:Ben Pearson made his first...

  • Maurice Thompson
    Maurice Thompson
    James Maurice Thompson was an American novelist.-Biography:Raised on a Georgia plantation, Thompson first pursued a career as a lawyer. In 1871 he opened a law practice with his brother, William Henry Thompson...

  • Russ Hoogerhyde


1973
  • Robert P. Elmer
  • Russ Saxton Pope
  • Rube Powell
  • Clayton B. Shenk
  • Art Young (archery)


1974
  • Dorothy Smith Cummings
    Dorothy Smith Cummings
    Dorothy Smith Cummings was a seven time national women's target archery champion. She won her first title in 1919, when she was 16 years old. She won the gold medal six more times in the United States Championships in 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1931.-Biography:She was born on March 28, 1903...

  • Harry Eugene Drake
  • Doug Easton
  • John Yount (archery)


1975
  • Paul Crouch (archery)
  • Mrs. M. E. Howell
  • Jean Lee Lombardo


1976
  • Babe Bitzenberger
  • Dr. Paul Klopsteg
  • Louis Carter Smith
    Louis Carter Smith
    Louis Carter Smith was an archery champion and historian. He was inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame in 1976. He died on April 23, 1961. His daughter was Dorothy Smith Cummings . He was secretary-treasurer of the National Archery Association for 26 years from 1919 to 1946.-References:...



1977
  • C. N. Hickman
  • Earl Hoyt Jr.
  • Myrtle Miller


1978
  • Roy Hoff
  • Ann Marston
  • Homer Taylor


1979
  • Will H. Thompson
  • Lura R. Wilson


1980
  • Florence Lillie
  • George Helwig


1982
  • Al Henderson (archery)


1984
  • Ann Clark (archery)


1985
  • Robert Rhode
  • C. A. Saunders


1986
  • Henry Bitzenberger
  • Doreen Wilber
    Doreen Wilber
    Doreen Viola Hansen Wilber was an American archer from Rutland, Iowa.-Biography:At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Wilber won the gold medal in the women's section of the first modern Olympic archery competition, aged 42. Along with John Williams, Wilber led the U.S...



1988
  • Roy Case


1991
  • Glenn St. Charles


1997
  • Jim Dougherty
  • Jim Easton
  • Bob Kelly
  • Frank Scott


1998
  • William Bill Wadsworth


1999
  • Floyd Eccleston
  • Tom Jennings
    Tom Jennings
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  • Dick Lattimer


2000
  • Stacy Groscup
  • Bob Swinehart


2001
  • Larry C. Whiffen


2002
  • Norbert Norb Mullaney


2003
  • Allan Martin (archery)
  • M. R. James (archery)


2004
  • Rollin Bohning


2005
  • Charles E. "Bert" Grayson
    Charles Grayson
    Charles Elbert Grayson was an archer, bowyer, archery collector, and author. His archery collection is contained in the University of Missouri Museum of Anthropology.-Early life:...

  • Len Cardinale


2006
  • Ed Rohde


2007
  • William Bednar
  • David Samuel (archery)
  • Ishi
    Ishi
    Ishi was the last member of the Yahi, the last surviving group of the Yana people of the U.S. state of California. Ishi is believed to have been the last Native American in Northern California to have lived most of his life completely outside the European American culture...



2008
  • Chuck Adams (archery)
  • Julia Body
  • George Gardner (archery)
  • Dave Staples


2010
  • Will Compton
  • Hollis Wilbur Allen
  • Frank Gandy
  • G. Fred Asbell
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