{"id":7945,"date":"2014-06-26T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:31:36","slug":"gray-41-honored-by-sports-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/06\/26\/gray-41-honored-by-sports-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray \u201941 honored by sports hall of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Football Coach <strong>Walter W. Gray \u201941<\/strong> will be inducted into the Class of 2014 Monroe County [Indiana] Sports Hall of Fame on July 11 in Bloomington, IN.\u00a0 He coached at Bloomington\u2019s University High School from 1948 \u2013 1967 and earned a PhD at Indiana University.\u00a0 Walt went from star athlete at Wabash to heroic service in World War II to a successfully long career coaching high school football.\u00a0 He left coaching to teach at Indiana State University, and was named to the Board of Directors of the National Transportation Advisory Committee. In 1999 he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.\u00a0 Walt is a member of the induction class of 1994 Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame for baseball and football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchitkansas.com\/Hall-of-Famer-story-worthy-of-a-rewrite\/26543848\">Click here<\/a> to read the news story about Walt Gray and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcshof.com\/\">click here<\/a> to find out more about the sports hall of fame event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Football Coach Walter W. Gray \u201941 will be inducted into the Class of 2014 Monroe County [Indiana] Sports Hall of Fame on July 11 in Bloomington, IN.\u00a0 He coached at Bloomington\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}