Stanford Athletics

The Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame was the brainchild of Walt Gamage, longtime sports editor of the Palo Alto Times. Gamage, who had previously worked on a number of neighborhood newspapers in the Chicago area, moved to Palo Alto in 1944 and quickly became interested in Stanford sports.
 
In early 1954, Gamage set out to organize a Hall of Fame. The first class of inductees, including 34 of the greatest names in Stanford sports history, was announced in a full-page spread in the Palo Alto Times on December 21, 1954.
 
The Stanford Hall of Fame totals 452 individuals, most recently including the Class of 2021: Jayne Appel Marinelli (women's basketball), Bob Bryan (men's tennis), Mike Bryan (men's tennis), Josh Childress (men's basketball), Toby Gerhart (football/baseball), Alix Klineman (women's volleyball), Elle Logan (women's rowing) and Julia Smit (women's swimming).