Local attorney John Scoles of Taylor, Scoles, and Bartels, was an honoree during a weekend filled with events in Corvallis, Oregon, when the 1962 Oregon State University (OSU) football team, coached by football legend Tommy Prothro, was inducted into the University’s Football Hall of Fame.

Scoles attended OSU on a football scholarship on the 1962 team, which was one of the most successful football teams in the history of the OSU program. The 1962 team posted a 9-2 record , including wins over archrival University of Oregon, 12th ranked Stanford,19th ranked West Virginia, Iowa State, Washington State, Idaho and Colorado State. The 1962 team, quarterbacked by Heisman winner Terry Baker, the first player to win the Heisman west of the state of Texas, won the Liberty Bowl contest in a defeat of Villanova in the Fourth Annual Liberty Bowl.

John had a chance to visit with many of his teammates, most of whom were just the tiniest bit disappointed not to be called upon to suit up for the game with Wisconsin which, even without the help of the 1962 team on Saturday, defeated Wisconsin 10-3.