McMinnville's Shakey's Pizza van was used by Linfield men's basketball and baseball teams

McMINNVILLE SHAKEY’S PIZZA PARLOR VAN and its connection to LINFIELD ATHLETICS

In the 1960s and 1970s or so, Linfield men’s basketball “Eastern Swing” trips (to play the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho) and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, were usually in a van from McMinnville’s Shakey’s Pizza Parlor. Del Coursey, a Linfield grad and an assistant baseball coach on the 1966 Linfield NAIA national championship baseball team, and his wife, Dixie, owned/operated Shakey’s (on 99W where Izzy’s was). Some called him “Pizza Del.” In this 1966 photo posing with the van is Linfield 1969 grad Tom Rohlffs, among those who rode in the van as a member of Linfield men’s basketball teams (coached by Ted Wilson) and baseball teams (coached by Roy Helser.)