UW Athletic Hall of Fame

Rollie Williams

  • Class
  • Induction
    1991
  • Sport(s)
    Baseball, Football, Men's Basketball
Rollie Williams
  • Earned nine letters at UW as a football halfback, basketball guard and baseball outfielder
  • Named to All-Western Conference teams in football (1922) and basketball (1923)
  • Played on Wisconsin's 1921 and 1923 Big Ten co-championship basketball teams
  • Served as senior class president on the UW-Madison campus
  • Inducted into the Wisconsin State Athletic Hall of Fame
  • Worked as head basketball coach at Millikin University in 1924
  • Member of the football and basketball coaching staffs at Iowa from 1924-29
  • Posted a 147-139 career record in 13 years as head basketball coach at Iowa
  • Served as assistant director of athletics at Wisconsin after 40 months of duty with the Navy in World War II
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