| Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame - Class of 1995 |
| A guard/forward for the Tigers, Jenkins captained the MU basketball team in 1947-48, and twice won all-conference honors. He led Mizzou in scoring three times, then played AAU basketball, earning all-America honors in 1950. Jenkins went on to a decorated officiating career (1950-71) and worked two NCAA Final Fours in College Park, Maryland, in 1966, and Los Angeles, in 1968. He also worked ten national junior college championship games and five NCAA regional tournaments. Jenkins, a native of Advance, Missouri, was a longtime resident of Columbia. He was inducted into the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990. |
