Hall of Fame
Bonnie Stewart is a posthumous inductee. A product of Alva, he played football, basketball and baseball for Northwestern from 1915 to 1919. He played with Lou Wilke on the famed 1915-16 “Sixty-Five Inch” team coached by Frank Wyatt. Wyatt and Wilke are both members of the Hall. Described as “having great speed and the ability to shoot goals,” Stewart played at a forward spot. It was as a basketball player that Stewart achieved all-American status, the first Ranger ever to do so. That team eventually lost in the National Tournament to Brigham Young by a 35-24 score. That same year the Rangers put together a 12-0-1 record in baseball, with Stewart patrolling the infield. As a football player, Stewart was described as an invincible halfback with a well-educated toe. A standout in any sport he played, he was once referred to by Harold Keith, former Northwestern student and longtime sports publicity director for the University of Oklahoma, as the greatest all-around Oklahoma college athlete of the first half century.
