Gonzaga Athletic Hall of Fame
“The never-to-be-forgotten Mulligan” was the way a university historian of his day described Bill Mulligan (’10). He earned 13 varsity letters in four sports at Gonzaga and was captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams for three successive years. In a lifetime associated with sports, Mulligan played baseball in the Northwest League following graduation; acted as Gonzaga’s athletic director in the 1930s, and in the same era was a founder of the philanthropic Athletic Round Table; was named to the Washington State Athletic Commission when professional boxing was legalized in 1933, and served many years as a basketball and football official in the old Pacific Coast Conference. Finally, he was a Pacific Coast League baseball executive, first with Seattle and then with Portland, over a 20-year span until his death in 1953. He was named baseball’s minor league executive of the year in 1944.
