Michigan State Football’s title teams from 1965 and 1966 are inducted into the HOF along with six individual players

Michigan State Athletics inducts six more former Spartan athletes into its Hall of Fame.

Darqueze Dennard (football), Anson Carter (hockey), Jessica (Beech) Bograkos (softball), Laura (Kueny) Smith (women’s golf), Beth (Rohl) Saylors (women’s track and field) and Paul Terek (men’s track and field) will be inducted into the Spartans Hall of Fame as members of the class of 2024, Michigan State Athletics announced Thursday.

Michigan State’s national championship teams from 1965 and 1966 are also included.

These teams, led by legendary Spartan coach Duffy Daugherty, were Michigan State’s last national championship teams to win it all.

“I am thrilled to congratulate the 1965 and 1966 Spartan football teams on their induction,” said Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller, according to Michigan State Athletics. “While their athletic accomplishments, including consecutive Big Ten championships and national titles, place them among the greatest teams in Spartan history, it is the transcendent impact on their sport, our university and society that drives their induction as the first teams ever into the Michigan State Athletics Hall of Fame. These were young men from different states and different races who came together to form a brotherhood around a single goal. In doing so, they became trailblazers who would help break down racial barriers in college football, resulting in a more diverse and inclusive sport nationally. They are the very fabric of who we are and who we strive to be as an institution.”