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Wallace Grant 1950

Wallace (Wally) F. Grant

  • Class
    1950
  • Induction
    1990
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Men's Track and Field
• Multiple year letter winner in football and track
• Best remembered in football for long run backs on kickoffs and punts; 80 and 90 yard runs were common
• Led track team scoring 85.5 points in one season - 1948
• Set high-hurdles record of 14.7 - 1950
• Represented Luther at the Central Collegiate Conference Championships at Marquette University - 1950
• In a triangular meet with Wartburg and Upper Iowa, placed in seven events for 23 points: first in high hurdles, discus, and broad jump, second in shot put, and third in 100-yard dash and high jump
• Twenty-two year career with Standard Oil
• President of Grant Realtors, Overland Park, Kansas
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