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- In 1941 Hascall Henshaw of Arizona State turned in the longest run in Sun Bowl history, a 94 yard touchdown, in a losing cause, as the Sun Devils fell to Western Reserve 26-13.
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The Arizona Republic
by Skip Bryant
August 5, 1999
EAST VALLEY SPORTS CENTURY
Chandler Community
Hascall Henshaw
When he was a senior in 1935, his football credentials were solid but nothing that would stamp him as one of Arizona's all-time prep sports legends. They showcased All-Conference skills, but when the All-State squads were picked, Hascall Henshaw managed only honorable mention status.
At that, in those Depression days, Henshaw was one of the lucky ones. He punched cattle, worked in the mines a year, put in eight months with the Highway Department and, most important, he got a break. Tom Lillico, Arizona State's graduate manager of athletics, saw Henshaw play in 1935 and didn't forget. In 1937, he invited the 140-pound asthmatic to come to Tempe and try out. So Henshaw became a member of the finest freshman football class ever to enroll at ASC before World Ward II. The ''Tombstone Terror'' was a key contributor, as All-Conference honors in his senior year in 1940 attest. He was on the first two ASC bowl teams, playing in the Sun Bowl both years. In the Jan. 1, 1941, game, he broke a 94-yard run off a fake-punt formation that was the longest in school history until Max Anderson's 99-yarder in 1967.
In an interview years ago, the now-deceased Henshaw recalled, ''When their end didn't crash, I turned and came up the center. Things began to unfold, and they unfolded all the way to the goal line.''
His college playing days were only the beginning of a long association with Tempe. As a coach at Tempe High School, he produced a 9-0 Class B mythical state championship team in 1947. In 1954, he became athletic director at Tempe High. In 1964, when McClintock opened, he took over as the Tempe Union High School District athletic director, a post he held until 1981, overseeing growth that added Marcos de Niza and Corona del Sol, where the football stadium is named after him.
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THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
July 7, 1996
Hascall Henshaw, 79, of Tempe, a retired Tempe Union High School District administrator, died July 4, 1996. He was born in Cochise and worked as a teacher, coach, principal and district athletic director during 38 years at the district. He won the William Bloy American Legion Americanism Award and the Centennial Merit Award from Arizona State University. He was a member of the Arizona State University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Arizona Interscholastic Athletic Administration Hall of Fame. The stadium at Corona Del Sol High School was named for him following his retirement in 1981.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia Lee; daughters, Robin Farias and Lori Warburton; stepsons, Fred, David and Richard; sisters, Donna Gay Chard and Caroline Downs; and six grandchildren.
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