Salem University Athletics

Born May, 67 1900, Dick Williams was a three-sport athlete at Salem College. He graduated in 1924 after an illustrious career in baseball, basketball and football.
 
Upon graduation, Williams coached football and served as athletic director at Har-Brack Union High School in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years. In 1952 he returned home to West Virginia to teach and coach at Bridgeport High School until 1968 and was a key contributor to Bridgeport’s outstanding record in football.
 
Jack Henry, a feature writer for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph said in 1941 that Williams put into practice definite ideas in which winning games was secondary to preparing boys for successful collegiate careers. Williams was credited with running the athletic field as if it were a classroom. Six of his football players went on to All-American fame.
 
Dick Williams died at his home ion Whitehall, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1980.