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Inducted 2009  
Tony Wall was raised in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, and attended William Penn Charter School where he was an all-conference and all-city (Philadelphia) football player as a senior.
Wall enrolled at Lake Forest College in the fall of 1975 and went on to earn four varsity letters and several other awards for the football team. The defensive end was an All-Midwest Conference East Division selection and was named First Team All-State by the Illinois Sports Information Directors his sophomore season. That year he helped lead a stingy Forester defense that ranked first in the conference with just 228 yards allowed per game. He also scored the team’s first points of the season by blocking a punt and returning it 25 yards to the end zone. He set team records with a dozen sacks and 20 tackles for loss as a junior and was again named all-conference. Wall captained the Foresters to a perfect 4-0 divisional record and the league championship game his senior season and was one of just six players in the league to earn All-MCAC honors for the third time. He finished his career as the program’s all-time leader in sacks and tackles for loss. Wall also lettered three seasons in baseball and batted .318 as a sophomore. Tony joined the Garrick Players in the spring of 1979 and was involved in several theatre productions over the next three years. He majored in English and graduated from the College in 1979. Wall’s career path led him to a senior financial consultant position with the Royal Bank of Canada. He and his wife Carolyn have two sons, Matthew and Jack.
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