Two-sport athlete Jim Cleverly, quarterback Tom Dublinski, golfer Billy Johnston and long-time Salt Lake Tribune sports editor John Mooney will be inducted into the University of Utah Crimson Club Hall of Fame at the annual Hall of Fame/Senior Awards banquet which will be held Monday, May 17 at the Red Lion Hotel. The banquet is open to the public.
Tickets are $25 per person and may be ordered by calling Carolyn Johnson at 581-5456. Cocktails are from 6-7 p.m. with dinner set for 7:15.Also honored will be 70 Ute seniors who have completed their athletic careers at the University.
Cleverly is the first athlete to be inducted into the Crimson Club Hall of Fame for two sports. He played baseball and basketball for the Utes. As a baseball player Cleverly helped Utah to the 1951 Skyline Conference title with a perfect 12-0 league record. He was named to the all-conference baseball team as well as member of the 1951 college All-America baseball team. During the two years that Cleverly ran the hardwoods for the Ute basketball team they won 49 games. He played three years of pro baseball with the Cleveland Indians.
Dublinski was one of the first great passing quarterbacks at Utah and one of the first to play pro football. He played for the Utes from 1949-51 and helped Utah to a pair of conference championships, breaking most of the school passing records in the process. As a senior in 1951 he was named all-conference, honorable mention All-America and finished fourth in the nation in total offense. His pro football career spanned 11 years and three professional leagues. He played in the NFL with the Detroit Lions and New York Giants. His career in the Canadian Football League included stints with the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Dublinski also spent one season with the Denver Broncos of the American Football League. During his pro football career Dublinski played on six division championship and two NFL championship teams.
Johnston won the 1960 Utah Open at the Salt Lake Country Club, when the tournament was a regular stop on the PGA Tour. In 1958 he won both the San Antonio Open and the Sahara Invitational. At Utah he won two individual conference golf titles and helped the Utes to a pair of team conference titles. Johnston twice played in the NCAA Tournament.
Mooney covered University of Utah Athletics for more than 50 years. He arrived in Salt Lake City in 1939 after a short stint on the Chicago Tribune. He first joined the Salt Lake Telegram where he became sports editor in 1941. He moved to the Salt Lake Tribune as sports editor in 1948. He served as president of the Football Writers Association of America and received the Bert McGrane Award, that organization's highest award. He is the first sports writer elected to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame and was named Sportsman of the Year by the Multiple Sclerosis Society in 1987.