Wabash College Athletics

Christopher S. Ings, they say legend grows greater with time. Your exploits as a four-year starting quarterback for the Little Giants are indeed legendary. Actually, the legend began before you ever stepped foot on campus. Some say when you told DePauw Coach Nick Mourouzis that you planned to go to Wabash he stood on the front porch of your Indianapolis home and cried. Perhaps that one has grown better with age! When you enrolled at Wabash as a Lilly Scholar in the fall of 1992, already you were highly regarded as a student-athlete. You were a three-sport athlete at Ben Davis High School and started as a quarterback, point guard, and infielder. You wasted little time emerging as the starting quarterback at Wabash, and you would start all 36 games of your career. Legend is that you were so gifted as a passer and runner that your biography took two whole pages in the 1995 media guide!

You did, in fact, re-define the position of quarterback at Wabash. In your career, you would set school records for career passing yardage, touchdowns, and total offense, and you were honored as a four-time all-conference selection in the Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference. In terms of yardage, your 9,608 total yards not only eclipsed David Broecker’s all-time mark, it shattered the record by nearly 4,000 yards. But it was your game savvy — not the yards — that most impressed the fans of the Little Giants. You had a unique ability to find the open man, to scramble out of trouble, and, when your team needed it, you demonstrated toughness and intensity.

Perhaps it was for you the word “gamer” was coined. And maybe it was Coach Nick’s tears that did the trick, but you seemed to save your best games for DePauw. As a freshman, you returned from a knee injury to get Wabash a key first down that would lead to a tie in the 99^th Monon Bell Game and send the rivalry to its second century knotted up at 45 wins for each school. After that game, you would settle in to beat our arch rival three straight years. We particularly remember the Monon game in your senior year when you were responsible for eight of the nine points scored: two for DePauw on a safety and Wabash’s only score on a diving touchdown run in a 7-2 Wabash victory on a snow-covered field.

So, for showing Wabash fans a level of intensity perhaps never exhibited by a Little Giant quarterback and for re-defining the position, statistically and otherwise, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to induct you, Christopher S. Ings, in the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame. Some Little Giant!\