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Schwartz to be inducted
5/20/03
Julie Bauer
Former junior college football All-American Eric Schwartz of Milford, Ohio, is one of four new inductees into Northwest Mississippi Community College's Sports Hall of Fame.
The annual induction banquet and ceremony is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27, at DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven. Tickets are $25.
Schwartz transferred to Northwest from The University of Memphis and helped the Rangers to their first NCJAA national championship in 1982 with a 16-9 victory against Ferrum College.
An offensive tackle, Schwartz received first team All-State, All-Region and All-American honors during his lone season at Northwest.
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"I have a lot of special memories of my year at Northwest," Schwartz said. "I look forward to being there again."
After Northwest, Schwartz played one year at the University of Texas at El Paso. He ended his football career following short stints with the New York Jets of the NFL and Philadelphia Stars of the former United States Football League.
Schwartz was born and raised in Tampa, Fla., and moved to Knoxville, Tenn., as a teen-ager. He is a 1979 graduate of Bearden High School, where he was an All-City, All-State and All-American player.
Schwartz currently works as a customer service lead for Comair Airlines in Cincinnati.
He and his wife, Cheryl, have two children: Bethany, 6, and Jakob, 4. Schwartz also has a 12-year-old son named Eli.
Former inductees of the Northwest Sports Hall of Fame will be present to welcome Schwartz and the other new inductees at the annual banquet.
Other new inductees are Northwest Head Baseball Coach and Athletic Director Donny Castle of Senatobia; Eddy Halfacre of Hernando, a member of the rodeo team in 1977-79; and Arthur "Bubba" Kuntzman, an All-American football player who attended Northwest from 1960-62.
Ole Miss football coach David Cutcliffe is the guest speaker for the event.
Tickets are available at Northwest-DeSoto Center at (662) 342-1570; Lafayette-Yalobusha Technical Center in Oxford at (662) 238-7952; or by calling Alumni Affairs Manager Dolores Wooten on the Senatobia campus at (662) 560-1105.
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