Hall of Fame
Charles Dick
Mules Football 1923-26
Dick played football from 1923 through 1926. Although he was only 5-9 and 153 pounds, he played both ways at a guard position. He was on the 1926 MIAA championship team that went 7-0-1 and is the school's only unbeaten football team. That team was an inaugural inductee into the Hall of Fame in 1992, along with team members Vernon Kennedy and Clarence Whiteman. After graduating, Dick was a teacher and school administrator for nearly 30 years at Ruskin High School in Kansas City, Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kan., and Lee's Summit before he retired. He was born in Benton County in 1901.
