All-time U.S. track and field greats Dwight Stones, Martin McGrady, J. Gregory Rice and Cheryl Toussaint will be inducted into the Millrose Games Hall of Fame during the 98th edition of the classic event February 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The second event of USA Track & Field's 2005 Indoor Visa Championship Series, the 2005 Millrose Games will be televised on NBC from 2-3:30 p.m., Eastern Time on Saturday, February 5.

The Millrose Games created a Hall of Fame in 1999 to recognize the meet's greatest performers. 2005 marks the seventh year of these inductions, which in the past have included such luminaries as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carl Lewis, Mary Decker Slaney, Glenn Cunningham, Joetta Clark Diggs, Bob Richards, Diane Dixon and Cornelius Warmerdam among many others. This year's inductions will take place in a ceremony on the track immediately following the Wanamaker Mile.

"We take great pride each year in honoring our new Hall of Fame Class," said Millrose Technical Director David Katz. "This year's class includes some of the greatest athletes the Millrose Games has ever seen, and who made indelible marks on this great event. We look forward to honoring Martin, Greg, Cheryl and Dwight on February 4."

MARTIN McGRADY: The original "Chairman of the Boards," McGrady was one of the greatest indoor runners in the years when small tracks were in vogue. A three-time national indoor 600 champion, McGrady won the "Mel Sheppard 600" in 1967, 1968 and 1970. At the 1970 USA Indoor Championships he set the world indoor record of 1:07.6, defeating 1968 Olympic 400m gold medalist Lee Evans (1:08.0). The record lasted until Mark Everett ran 1:07.53 at the 1992 Millrose Games.

J. GREGORY RICE (Deceased 1991): A 1939 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Rice dominated the U.S. distance running scene in the late 1930s and early 40s. He won four indoor and five outdoor national titles and was a popular figure in the old Madison Square Garden as a four-time Millrose winner at 2 miles (1939, 41, 42, 43). At one point he won 55 straight races, and his exploits earned him the 1940 AAU Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. During his career he lowered the world indoor records for 2 and 3 miles a total of eight times, including a Millrose Games 2-mile record in 1942. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and after the war was an active track official for many years. Rice and his wife Mary, who survives him, have eight children and 15 grandchildren. He was inducted into the National Track & Field hall of Fame in 1977.

DWIGHT STONES: Twice named the World Indoor Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News, Dwight Stones was one of the world's top high jumpers from 1972 to 1984. . He was a three-time Millrose Games winner and one of the most popular and charismatic athletes to compete in the Garden. He was just 18 when he represented the U.S. for the first time at the 1972 Olympic Games, placing third in the high jump competition. Four years later, he was again third at the Olympics in Montreal. He returned to the Olympics in 1984, finishing fourth after setting his 13th American record at that year's Trials.

A three-time world record holder in the high jump, Stones set his first world record when he cleared 7' 6 1/2" in 1973 at Munich, Germany. That jump also made him the first "flop" jumper to set a world high jump record, five years after Dick Fosbury made that jumping style famous while winning the Mexico City Olympics. Stones raised the world record to 7' 7" in 1976 and added another quarter inch to the record two months later. During his 16-year career, he won 19 national championships, and in 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and announce at the same Olympics. Since then, he has been a color analyst for all three major networks and continues to cover track and field on television.

CHERYL TOUSSAINT: A New York favorite for many years, Cheryl Toussaint was a four-time Millrose winner in the 440, 600 and 880 (1970-'73). She won a silver medal in the 4x400m relay at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and a gold medal in that event at the 1971 Pan-Am Games. Domestically, Toussaint was a three-time U.S. Indoor and two- time U.S. Outdoor champion at 880 yards. She was a member of the Atoms Track Club, and later launched her own successful specialty sportswear company and product line known today as Tousse Running Apparel.