Nine former University of Colorado standouts will be inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of Fame this fall, the school’s seventh and largest group of inductees.
Selected for induction:
• Kara (Grgas-Wheeler) Goucher of cross country and track, a three-time national champion runner and CU’s most celebrated female athlete.
• Football and basketball star Dave Logan, an All-America receiver and an NBA draft pick.
• Football star Alfred Williams, a unanimous All-American and a Butkus Award winner.
• Football coach Dal Ward, who compiled a 63-41-6 record from 1948-58.
• Track’s Claude Walton, CU’s first African-American varsity letterman, who achieved the honor in 1933.
• Frank Clarke, the first African-American football player at CU in 1954.
• Billy Lewis, CU’s first African-American basketball player when he debuted in 1957.
• Track’s Don Campbell, an All-America sprinter known as the “Colorado Comet” after receiving a Purple Heart in World War II as a U.S. Army private who was hit in his leg by machine-gun fire;
• Baseball and football star John Stearns.
The group will be inducted Oct. 17.
