Former Arkansas RB Cowins elected to Southwest Conference Hall of Fame

FAYETTEVILLE — Former Arkansas working again Ben Cowins can be inducted within the Southwest Convention Corridor of Fame subsequent month. 

Cowins can be one in every of 9 people inducted throughout an Aug. 16 banquet in Waco, Texas. The SWC Corridor of Fame exhibit is situated in Waco on the Texas Sports activities Corridor of Fame and consists of displays highlighting the entire league’s former member faculties. 

Sixty-eight people related to the Razorbacks have been elected to the SWC Corridor of Fame, together with 33 soccer coaches and gamers. 

Cowins rushed for 3,570 yards and 30 touchdowns at Arkansas between 1975-78. He held the Razorbacks’ profession yardage file for 29 years till it was damaged by Darren McFadden in 2007.

He ranks third in program historical past in dashing yards, 100-yard dashing video games (16) and dashing makes an attempt (635), and fifth in dashing touchdowns. 

Cowins’ finest season got here in 1977 when he rushed for 1,192 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Razorbacks’ 11-1 workforce that upset No. 2 Oklahoma with a 31-6 victory within the Orange Bowl. Cowins and two others have been suspended for the bowl recreation and back-up working again Roland Gross sales rushed for a bowl-record 205 yards.

Cowins’ dashing yards and touchdowns in 1977 rank among the many 10 finest single seasons in Arkansas historical past. He rushed for a career-high 203 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 21 carries throughout a 28-6 victory over Oklahoma State in Little Rock — the primary of six 100-yard performances that yr.

Cowins led the Razorbacks in dashing yards and was voted All-SWC in every of his remaining three seasons. He led the SWC with 1,162 dashing yards and 6.3 yards per carry as a sophomore in 1976. His 89-yard landing run throughout a 14-7 victory at No. 15 Houston that season was the decisive rating and the second-longest run in program historical past on the time. 

As a senior, Cowins rushed for 1,006 yards, together with a season-high 148 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 19 carries throughout a 49-7 victory over No. 16 Texas Tech within the regular-season finale. 

Cowins spent the 1979 season with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and performed three video games in 1980 for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Soccer League. 

He was inducted to the UA Sports activities Corridor of Honor in 2007 and the Arkansas Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2011.

Razorbacks in Southwest Convention Corridor of Fame

Soccer (33): Lance Alworth, Gary Anderson, Steve Atwater, John Barnhill, Jim Benton, Frank Broyles, Dick Bumpas, Invoice Burnett, Ronnie Caveness, Ben Cowins, Bobby Crockett, Chuck Dicus, Joe Ferguson, Quinn Grovey, Dan Hampton, Leotis Harris, Wayne Harris, Ken Hatfield, Glen Ray Hines, Bruce James, Steve Little, Fred Marshall, Wayne Martin, Invoice Montgomery, Billy Moore, Loyd Phillips, Cliff Powell, Jon Richardson, Put on Schoonover, Clyde Scott, Billy Ray Smith Sr., Billy Ray Smith Jr., Jimmy Walker

Males’s Basketball (11): Ron Brewer, Todd Day, Marvin Delph, Scott Hastings, Joe Kleine, Lee Mayberry, Sidney Moncrief, Nolan Richardson, Glen Rose, Eddie Sutton, Darrell Walker

Girls’s Basketball (4): Bettye Fiscus, Delmonica Dehorney-Hawkins, Amber Shirey, Tracy Webb

Baseball (5): Norm DeBriyn, Jeff King, Tim Lollar, Kevin McReynolds, Johnny Ray

Males’s Monitor & Area (8): Mike Conley, Paul Donovan, Joe Falcon, Edrick Floreal, John McDonnell, Frank O’Mara, Niall O’Shaughnessy, Reuben Reina

Girls’s Monitor & Area (4): Bev Lewis, Cynthia Moore, Melody Sye, Lisa Sparks-Walker

Males’s Tennis (1): Peter Doohan

Males’s Golf (1): R.H. Sikes

Journalist (1): Orville Henry