Dallas Vestal (1953) - Football

Dallas Vestal was an athlete who participated in many sports football, basketball, track and baseball, and lettered in all of them. He wanted to play golf too but the coach, Hollis Beasley told him he already was doing enough playing baseball and doing track. He was the starting running back on the R.A. Long 1952 Co-Championship football team that ended the season with a 9 – 1 league record. He scored 78 points that season, placing him 2nd in the SWW district, for all time high scoring in a season. He set the record high scoring in a season for the high school with the 78 points. Dallas was named to the 1952 All Star football team. The team set a new SWW Conference record for points scored in a season with 215 points, the team also received the Kip Taylor Miracle Power Award that year. After high school Dallas went on to Oregon State University on a football scholarship and was a starter on the football team his freshman year. He sustained an injury which only allowed him to be a kicker for a few games his in sophomore year and that ended his football career. Dallas went on to earn a BS degree in Civil Engineering which led to a long career as a Heavy Construction Project Manager. During his career he worked for the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, the Washington State Roads Department and with J.J. Welcome Construction. He is married, has six children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren and heads south every spring to play golf.