Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame
A North Vernon, Indiana, native, Hall was the rock upon which Wabash's distance running dominance was founded from 1956 to 1960. With Warren in the lead, the cross country team compiled a 31-2-1 record from 1957-1959. In 1958, he won the Pete Vaughan Award as the outstanding athlete of the year. In 1959, as a senior captain, he placed sixth at the NCAA Championship meet, leading Wabash to a third-place team finish and earning All-America recognition.
On the track, he repeatedly lowered the school's mile record, and he keyed the success of Wabash's distance medley relay teams at big meets, ranging from the Texas Relays to Indiana's Big State meet.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Hall went to Harvard for a master's degree in English and subsequently to a career in private secondary school teaching and administration. Hall's greatest athletic-related thrill since leaving Wabash was seeing one of the athletes he coached, Frank Shorter, win the 1972 Olympic marathon.
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