Ralph W. “Swede” Langer – Ainsworth
Before graduating from Ainsworth High School in 1939, Ralph had an outstanding career in all three sports offered at that time. His honors included being selected twice to the All State Teams in basketball and once football. His track events were the pole vault and high jump. In order to gain more practice time Ralph […]
David Lammel – Millard South
Athlete (1984) A five-time gold-medal swimmer at the state meet, the seven-time high school All-American still held the state record in the 100-yard butterfly in 2004. That mark was the second-fastest in the nation his senior year. He started on Millard South’s state runner-up baseball teams of 1983 and 1984. He was honored by the […]
Jack Lewis – Omaha
Contributor. Dr. Jack Lewis gave countless honors to the athletic program at his alma mater, Omaha Central High School. Every year, he has provided free fall, winter and spring physical examinations for athletes and can’t remember an Omaha Central football game where he wasn’t on the sidelines. He was the school’s “team” doctor for 39 […]
Max Linder – Plattsmouth
Athlete (1968) The Omaha World-Herald’s 1968 athlete of the year enjoyed an outstanding career in football, basketball and track at Plattsmouth. The Class B all-state quarterback in 1967 played in the 1968 Shrine Bowl after accounting for 45 touchdowns and 2,979 yards as a senior. In his career, he threw 48 touchdown passes and scored […]
Bill Lewis – Lincoln
Official. Bill Lewis began officiating basketball in 1961 while he was in junior high school and rose to become the Nebraska School Activities Association’s Supervisor of Officials. An intramural referee at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Chadron State, he continued to officiate after becoming a teacher. He worked the state basketball tournament from 1975 to […]
Dennis Logan – North Platte
Official. Inducted with officiating partner, Dan Newmyer. They officiated together for 40 years, so they will be inducted into the Hall of Fame together. They began officiating basketball while students at Doane College in the late 1940s and they retired in the late 1980s. They began officiating football games with Hall of Fame referee Dick […]
