Dallas Ward

Who was Dallas Ward?

Dallas "Dal" Ward was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1948 to 1958, compiling a career record of 63–41–6 in 11 seasons. Over the course of the 1953 and 1954 seasons, Ward's Colorado Buffaloes football teams won nine consecutive games. Ward grew up in Lexington, Oregon on a ranch and played college football at Oregon State University in the 1920s, where he started every game of his collegiate career.

Ward held membership in five honorary societies, including Phi Kappa Phi. He was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. The CU athletic administration center, located at the north end of Folsom Field, was named after him. As of 2007, Ward is one of only three multi-sport inductees in the hall of fame at Oregon State, where he was inducted in 1997. He earned eight vasity letters: three for football and twice each for baseball and basketball, and was a captain in all three sports.