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Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame

Allan Anderson

Allan Anderson

  • Class
    1965
  • Induction
    2010
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Special Inductee
Allan J. Anderson ’65
Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame
November 12, 2010
 
Allan J. Anderson, native son of Chapin, Illinois, we are proud to honor you today for all that you have contributed to your alma mater throughout your life. You have been a Class Agent and you were elected to serve your fellow alumni on the National Association of Wabash Men Board of Directors. Twice you worked as the College’s Director of Development and you directed the $32 million capital campaign in the mid-1970s. Today, you proudly serve as a member of the Wabash College Board of Trustees and as national co-chairman of the $60 million Challenge of Excellence major gifts initiative.

This level of leadership is hardly surprising since you were also an involved student-leader on campus — president of the W-Men’s Club, Vice President of Phi Delta Theta and the Inter-Fraternity Council, and as a member of the Glee Club and Sphinx Club. You would earn the Frank Hugh Sparks Award for All-Around Student Achievement and you were selected to as a Senior Chapel speaker.

Indeed, all of those accomplishments are worthy of our praise, but on this day we pay tribute to your athletic achievements. You were a highly sought-after high school athlete who earned four letters in four sports — football, basketball, baseball, and track — and as captain of the football and basketball teams. At Wabash, you lettered three times in track and field and you were a standout three-year letterman on the gridiron. A two-way player, you were “electrifying” as a running back in Coach Ken Keuffel’s single wing attack and as a starter in the defensive secondary. You were the leading rusher and scorer in 1964 to garner Most Valuable Player honors. Your 45-yard touchdown gallop helped Wabash beat Ohio Wesleyan for the first time in six years, and you scored Wabash’s touchdown in a 7-7 tie with Butler. You accounted for 20 of Wabash’s 21 points in the 1964 Monon Bell Classic by scoring three touchdowns and a two-point conversion. And in all of your competitions, you conducted yourself with the same class and dignity with which you have led your life.

Allan J. Anderson, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to recognize your outstanding contributions to the College and to honor your athletic ability through induction in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame. Allan J. Anderson — Some Little Giant!
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