Indiana State University Athletics

Paul Wolf was an athletic star at Indiana State University and then served the school for 42 years in the athletic department.
 
A graduate of the former Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Wolf was a member of the Indiana State basketball and baseball squads. He captained the 1925 baseball team and was awarded the Bigwood Award for the "Most Valuable Player" in baseball.
 
For eight years Wolf played professionally in various leagues and coached the Quincy, Illinois, team in the Three-1 loop.  At Indiana State he coached baseball for 17 years and was named Indiana Collegiate Conference "Coach of the Year" four times - in 1958, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
 
A Professor Emeritus from Indiana State, Wolf was honored as the Parade Marshal for the 1982 ISU Homecoming Blue and White Parade.
 
Wolf retired in 1970, the same year he received the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award.  A scholarship fund has been established in his name.  In addition, the physical education open recreation field at 4th & Chestnut on the ISU campus bears his name.

• Four-time Indiana Collegiate Conference Baseball Coach of the Year (1958, 1963, 1966, 1967) 

• Men’s Basketball Coach (1954-1955) 

• Baseball Coach (1938-1941, 1956-1967) 

• Inducted into Hall of Fame Inaugural Class October 29, 1982