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Steve Gleason to the WSU HOF



Tomorrow in between the first and second quarter of the “Apple Bowl” between Washington and Washington State, former Cougar football star, Steve Gleason will be inducted into the Washington State Athletic Hall of Fame.

Lettering in both Football and Baseball at WSU, Gleason was a star Linebacker starting 20 of 31 games where he was named one of the team’s co-captains and was the starting Center Fielder for the Baseball Team. Although he was undrafted in the NFL, he would go on to play seven seasons with the New Orleans Saints on Safety and Special Teams, most famously blocking a punt on national television for his team’s first home game after Hurricane Katrina.

Sadly in 2011, he announced that he was suffering from ALS and has been active in raising awareness of the disease.

The Washington State Athletic Hall of Fame first took shape in 1978.  Steve Gleason becomes the 178th member of this Hall of Fame.


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