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ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

DONALD S. WHEATON '33

Inducted: 1986

Don Wheaton was said by his contemporaries to be "the greatest broken field runner" of his time. Others called him a genuine "triple threat men... and the greatest football player in DePauw history." He was named all-state halfback in 1931 and 1932 and in 1931 was listed in Spaulding's Official Football Guide for five outstanding individual feats in football. One was a 107-yard TD gallop against Cincinnati. The great sportswriter Grantland Rice placed him on his third-team All-American squad and observed that he would have been on the first team had he played at a "big time" university. Ironically, Wheaton grew up in Wheaton, IL and was president of F.E. Wheaton & Company there.