List of Sigma Chi members
Table:
Name

Original chapter

Notability

References

Dwight "Dike" Eddleman

Illinois, 1949

Silver medalist, High jump, 1948 Olympics; NBA All-Star; generally considered the University of Illinois's greatest athlete.

Eric FonoimoanaS

UCSB, 1993

Gold Medalist, Men's Beach Volleyball, 2000 Olympics.

Jeff Gorton

Bridgewater MA, 1990

Hockey New York Rangers General Manager

Samuel J. Levine

USC, 2013

University of Southern California basketball player who died in 2013 in a fall from a Cabo San Lucas hotle while on Spring Break in Mexico

T. J. Middleton

Georgia, 1990

Tennis professional. 1994 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finalist. 2004 Over 35 Wimbledon Doubles Champion.

Billy Packer

Wake Forest, 1962

CBS Sports Sportscaster

Reid Patterson

Georgia, 1954

1956 Melbourne Olympic Games swimmer. Former 50 meter freestyle World record holder and 200 meter freestyle relay World record holder.

W.O. Payne

Georgia, 1900

Athletic Director at the University of Georgia 1936–1943. Payne Hall on the Georgia campus is named in his honor.

Gordon SmithS

Georgia, 1975

Executive Director and COO of the United States Tennis Association. Member of the ITA Hall of Fame.

Tony TrabertS

University of Cincinnati, 1952

Tennis champion, International Tennis Hall of Fame member

Carl F. UllrichS

Cornell University, 1950

Athletic Director at West Point 1980–1990. Executive Director of the Patriot League 1989–1993.

Darrin Van Horn

University of Kentucky, 1990

Professional Boxer, 1989 IBF Junior Middleweight Champion, 1991 IBF Super Middleweight Champion

O'Neill Williams

Emory, 1965

Professional fisherman and outdoor personality. Host of TV's O'Neill Outside on Sun Sports, SportSouth and the Versus channels.

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Thomas Dwight Dike Eddleman ( December 27 , 1922 - August 1 , 2001 ) is generally considered the greatest athlete in the history of athletics at the University of Illinois . Eddleman participated on the University 's basketball , track and field , and football teams between the years of 1942 and 1949 . Eddleman earned a combined 11 varsity letters in his career at the University , during which he also became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity . Eddleman was born in Centralia , Illinois , and attended Centralia High School . On October 24 , 2008 Eddleman was named a Distinguished Alumni of Centralia High school . He , along with five others , including James Brady , were the first to be named Distinguished Alumni . His wife , Teddy Eddleman , accepted his award . Beginning in 1969 , Eddleman served the University of Illinois as a fundraiser for the athletic department . In tribute to his years of service to the University 's athletics , in 1993 , the University of Illinois athlete of the year awards for both men and women were named in his honor . In 2002 , the portion of Fourth Street in Champaign , Illinois that runs along the east side of Memorial Stadium between Peabody Drive and Kirby Street was designated Honorary Dike Eddleman Way ( a street in his hometown of Centralia , Third Street , which runs past the old high school , is also designated Dike Eddleman Way ) . In 1983 , Eddleman was inducted into the National Federation of State High School Associations Hall of Fame .
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( U of I , Illinois , UIllinois , or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC ) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana . It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867 . The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified as a R1 Doctoral Research University under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education , which denotes the highest research activity . In fiscal year 2017 , research expenditures at Illinois totaled $ 642 million . The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States by holdings after Harvard University . The university also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) and is home to the fastest supercomputer on a university campus . The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study . The university holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres ( 2,578 ha ) and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $ 2 billion . The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign also operates a Research Park home to innovation centers for over 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations , including Abbott , AbbVie , Caterpillar , Capital One , Dow , State Farm , and Yahoo , among others . As of October 2018 [ update ] , 30 Nobel laureates , 2 Turing Award winners , and 1 Fields medalist have been affiliated with the university as alumni , faculty members , or researchers .
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The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport , Rhode Island , United States . It honors both players and other contributors to the sport of tennis . The complex , the former Newport Casino , includes a museum , grass tennis courts , an indoor tennis facility , and a court tennis ( or real tennis ) facility .
Carl Farnum Ullrich ( born June 23 , 1928 ) is a former American college rowing coach and athletics administrator who served as the first civilian athletic director at the United States Military Academy , from 1980 to 1990 .
Cornell University ( /kɔːrˈnɛl/ kor-NEL ) is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca , New York . Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White , the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge - from the classics to the sciences , and from the theoretical to the applied . These ideals , unconventional for the time , are captured in Cornell 's founding principle , a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation : I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study . The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus , with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy . The university also administers two satellite medical campuses , one in New York City and one in Education City , Qatar , and Cornell Tech , a graduate program that incorporates technology , business , and creative thinking . The program moved from Google 's Chelsea Building in New York City to its permanent campus on Roosevelt Island in September 2017 . Cornell is one of ten private land grant universities in the United States and the only one in New York . [ note 1 ] Of its seven undergraduate colleges , three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York ( SUNY ) system , including its agricultural and human ecology colleges as well as its industrial labor relations school . Of Cornell 's graduate schools , only the veterinary college is state-supported . As a land grant college , Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions . The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres , but is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens ( more than 4,300 acres ) and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered . As of October 2019 , 59 Nobel laureates , four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell University .
The United States Military Academy ( USMA ) , also known as West Point , Army , Army West Point , The Academy , or simply The Point , is a four-year federal service academy in West Point , New York . It was originally established as a fort that sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River with a scenic view , 50 miles ( 80 km ) north of New York City . It is the oldest of the five U.S. service academies . The academy traces its roots to 1801 , when President Thomas Jefferson directed , shortly after his inauguration , that plans be set in motion to establish the United States Military Academy at West Point . The entire central campus is a national landmark and home to scores of historic sites , buildings , and monuments . The majority of the campus 's Norman-style buildings are constructed from gray and black granite . The campus is a popular tourist destination , with a visitor center and the oldest museum in the United States Army . Candidates for admission must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination , usually from a member of Congress or Delegate/Resident Commissioner in the case of Washington , D.C. , Puerto Rico , Northern Mariana Islands , Guam , American Samoa , and the Virgin Islands . Other nomination sources include the President and Vice President of the United States . Students are officers-in-training and are referred to as cadets or collectively as the United States Corps of Cadets ( USCC ) . Tuition for cadets is fully funded by the Army in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation . Approximately 1,300 cadets enter the Academy each July , with about 1,000 cadets graduating .
The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States . Outside the Ivy League , it is among the most selective group of higher education institutions in NCAA Division I and has a very high student-athlete graduation rate for both the NCAA graduation success rate and the federal graduation rate . The Patriot League consists of 10 core members : American University , the United States Military Academy ( Army ) , Boston University , Bucknell University , Colgate University , College of the Holy Cross , Lafayette College , Lehigh University , Loyola University Maryland and the United States Naval Academy ( Navy ) . All 10 core members participate in the NCAA 's Division I for all Patriot League sports that they offer . Since not all schools sponsor every available NCAA sport , such as ice hockey and wrestling , most schools are affiliated with other collegiate conferences . Additionally , the Patriot League has a unique arrangement for football . Bucknell , Colgate , Holy Cross , Lafayette , and Lehigh are members of the Patriot League 's Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) conference . Of the five other conference members , American , Boston University and Loyola Maryland do not sponsor football while Army and Navy play in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ; Army is an independent while Navy currently competes as an associate member of the American Athletic Conference . Four other private institutions are Patriot League members only for specific sports and are referred to as 'Patriot League associate members . ' Fordham University and Georgetown University are associate members in football , while MIT is an associate member in women 's rowing and University of Richmond is an associate member in women 's golf .
Darrin Van Horn ( born September 7 , 1968 , in Cincinnati , Ohio ) is a retired professional boxer . He was a world champion in two weight divisions .
The University of Kentucky ( UK ) is a public university in Lexington , Kentucky . Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky , the university is one of the state 's two land-grant universities ( the other being Kentucky State University ) and the institution with the highest enrollment in the state , with 30,720 students as of Fall 2015 . The institution comprises 16 colleges , a graduate school , 93 undergraduate programs , 99 master programs , 66 doctoral programs , and four professional programs . [ needs update ] The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus . The largest is the William T. Young Library , a federal depository , hosting subjects related to social sciences , humanities , and life sciences collections . In recent years , the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research , following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997 . The directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution , in terms of an overall ranking , to be determined by the university itself , by the year 2020 .
O'Neill Williams , born in Atlanta in October 1943 , is host of O'Neill Outside , an outdoor based television series on FOX Sports Sun , FOX Sports Southeast , FOX Sports Arizona , Pursuit Channel , HuntTV , Amazon Prime , Outdoor Action Network , Camo Crusade , Waypoint TV , GEN 7 Outdoors to 277,000,000 subscriber households weekly and O'Neill Outside radio broadcasts to 38 states via WSB Radio in Atlanta and is in syndication nationally via the 155 SB Nation affiliates . O'Neill Outside radio is the # 1 outdoor based live radio talk show in the country .
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta , Georgia . The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford , Georgia , by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory . In 1915 , Emory College moved to its present location in Druid Hills and was rechartered as Emory University . Its relocation was funded by Asa Griggs Candler , a businessman and philanthropist who wanted a major university in the city . Emory maintained a presence in Oxford ; its institution developed as Oxford College , a residential liberal arts college for the first two years of the Emory baccalaureate degree . The university is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the fifty oldest private universities in the United States . Emory University has nine academic divisions : Emory College of Arts and Sciences , Oxford College , Goizueta Business School , Laney Graduate School , School of Law , School of Medicine , Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing , Rollins School of Public Health , and the Candler School of Theology . Emory University , the Georgia Institute of Technology , and Peking University in Beijing , China jointly administer the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering . The university operates the Confucius Institute in Atlanta in partnership with Nanjing University . Emory has a growing faculty research partnership with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ( KAIST ) . Emory University students come from all 50 states , the District of Columbia , five territories of the United States , and over 100 foreign countries . Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia and comprises seven major hospitals , including the internationally renowned Emory University Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown .
Fox Sports Sun , formerly Sun Sports and originally Sunshine Network , is an American regional sports network that is owned by Diamond Sports Group , a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios , and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks . The channel broadcasts local coverage of professional , collegiate and sporting events in the state of Florida , with a focus on professional sports teams based in Miami , Tampa and Orlando . Fox Sports Sun and sister regional sports network Fox Sports Florida are headquartered in Fort Lauderdale , Florida . Fox Sports Sun is available on cable providers throughout Florida ; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network .
Fox Sports Southeast ( originally named SportSouth from its inception until October 4 , 2015 ) is an American regional sports network that is owned by Diamond Sports Group , a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios , and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks . Headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia , the channel broadcasts regional coverage of sports events throughout the southeastern United States , with a focus on professional sports teams based in Atlanta , Tennessee , and Charlotte . Fox Sports Southeast is available on cable providers throughout Georgia , Tennessee , Alabama , Mississippi , South Carolina and parts of North Carolina ( roughly from Asheville to Charlotte ) ; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network . The channel 's programming reaches an estimated 8.9 million cable and satellite subscribers .
NBCSN is an American pay television channel that is owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal . It originally launched on July 1 , 1995 , as the Outdoor Life Network ( OLN ) , which was dedicated to programming primarily involving fishing , hunting , outdoor adventure programs , and outdoor sports . By the turn of the 21st century , OLN became better known for its extensive coverage of the Tour de France but eventually began covering more mainstream sporting events , resulting in its relaunch as Versus in September 2006 . In 2011 , Comcast , the original owner of the network , acquired a majority stake in NBCUniversal . As a result , Comcast merged the operations of its pay channels with those of NBC . In particular , it aligned the operation of its sports channels with NBC 's sports division , NBC Sports . On January 1 , 2012 , Versus was rebranded as the NBC Sports Network ( on-air branding later shortened to NBCSN ) to reflect these changes . As of September 15 , 2014 , the majority of NBC Sports ' operations , including NBCSN , is based in facilities in Stamford , Connecticut . As of September 2018 , NBCSN is available to approximately 83.3 million households ( 90.2% of households with cable ) in the United States .