Tommy Prothro was a Life Master on the bridge table. He flew to international competitions and partnered with actor Omar Sharif. Bridge can be learned, but it favors the gifted. It demands memory ...

UCLA players were perplexed. They had not played well in defeating Washington State that day in 1967, and Coach Tommy Prothro was far from pleased. “We started looking at each other, knowing the ...

Deep in dejection, Oregon State’s Coach Tommy Prothro showed up at a booster luncheon to explain why the finest football team in the school’s history had an indifferent 5-3 record. As Prothro ...

Son Fouled. In the grandstand at Portland, Ore., sat seven-year-old Tommy Prothro and hundreds of others. Tommy’s eyes were wide, intent, staring at the batter’s box. Swinging his bat in the b ...

Zelinka, 93, served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro from 1955-64. During that era, Oregon State played in two Rose Bowls and produced the school’s only Heisman Trophy winner, Terry Baker.