Western Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame
Bill Stanley - Football - (1964-69)
Played a solid four year career as both an offensive and defensive lineman for the Catamount football team. Stanley was part of three consecutive non-losing teams at WCU from 1964 through 1967. Playing for WCU in the Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, in 1967 Stanley became the first and only Catamount to win the Kirkland Blocking Trophy.
The post season accolades continued in 1967 as Stanley was named to the NAIA District 26 team and selected All NAIA on the offensive front. He additionally was named to the All-Carolinas Conference as a defensive tackle, becoming the last Catamount to earn honors on offense and defense in the same season.
Additionally, in 1969, Stanley served as a graduate assistant working with the WCU defensive line. That team was inducted into the WCU Hall of Fame in 2018 making Stanley a two-time inductee (2012 and 2018).
