Walter Ledet

Sport: Coach

Induction Year: 1995

University: Northwestern State

Induction Year: 1995

As head track and field coach and assistant football coach at Northwestern State, Walter Ledet built the state’s dominant track program for more than a decade and helped shape the remarkable careers of three Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame members — Charlie Hennigan, Jackie Smith and Charlie Tolar. Ledet, Northwestern’s first football All-American as a guard in 1938, was a second-round NFL Draft pick by Philadelphia. As head track coach from1952-64, Ledet led the Demon thinclads to five straight Gulf States Conference titles from 1953-57 — missing a sixth title by half a point

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