Forester Athletic Hall of Fame
Inducted 1990

He entered Lake Forest in 1929 and went on to earn four letters in football and four in baseball.  A member of Phi Pi Epsilon, he was also a member of the L.F. Club.  His talents as a baseball player made him a prospect for the Chicago Cubs.

Graduating with an economics degree, Bill, instead, played semi-professional football in Highland Park.  After two years, he went to coach with his former coach, I.D. MacIntosh in Flagstaff, Arizona and then at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania  He then returned to Illinois and attended the University of Illinois, receiving his Master's degree in 1947.  Bill became a coach at Glenbrook North High School.  He eventually became Athletic Director and held that position until his retirement in 1974.  The school named their football field in his honor and, in 1981 he was inducted into the Illinois High School Hall of Fame.