Jack Walters

Jack Walters was born on January 23, 1936. He was a three-sport star at Lincoln High School before earning a scholarship to play football and baseball at the University of Washington.

A co-captain for league-champion football and baseball teams at Lincoln, Walters was selected to the East-West all-state all-star baseball team as a catcher for the Abes during his senior year of 1954. His .350 batting average was accomplished as part of a three-man rotation hitting in the 3, 4 and 5 spots with teammates Duane Lowell and Luther Carr.

As a guard and linebacker on the football, he was an All-City League selection also as a senior. That same school year, the Washington sports writers voted Lincoln as the best football team in the state.

Walters won three varsity letters in football and one in baseball while playing for the Huskies. Washington won the Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division baseball title in 1959...the first such title in some 20 years, and they fell just a game shy of playing in the College World Series that season.

In the fall of 1959, the Huskies football team won the Pac-8 title and beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, 44-8, marking the Pac-8's first win over the Big 10 in the bowl since before World War II.

Both 1959 UW teams have since been inducted into the University of Washington's Sports Hall of Fame.