Sunday, January 08, 2023

The ‘Eagle Stare’ of Ted Wilson, Linfield College head men’s basketball coach, 1961-1981

 

The ‘Eagle Stare’ of Ted Wilson, Linfield College head men’s basketball coach, 1961-1981

There are some excellent (Linfield men’s basketball 1968-1969) basketball photos in Linfield’s student newspaper Linews taken by students Rusty Rae and Dennis Burkhart.

The verse written in for each player is stretching a poetic license, but here's a sample:

(Ted Wilson, head coach)

"Here is the boss of the show

Ted Wilson is his name

And he really knows the game

In the heat of battle

When something goes wrong

He goes to his bench

                  singing a song

And while the head man has no hair

If things go sour

He just gives the Eagle Stare.”

Congratulations, by the way, to Wilson and crew for a successful season and best of luck at Kansas City next week.

 Source: “Off The Top” column by Tim McAlister, (then) managing editor of the McMinnville N-R/News-Register, March 8, 1969

 Photo of Coach Ted Wilson, Linfield College men’s basketball, 1961-1981, by photographer Rusty Rae. Used with permission of RR in 2023. Ted Wilson died in 1996. Bio info: 

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2015/08/ted-wilson-biographical-info.html