The first Medford High School graduate to enter the professional football ranks also was the one to achieve the greatest distinction. This great player was E.S. “Bill” Morgan, a tackle on Coach; Prink Callison’s great teams of the late 1920s. Bill played four years for Medford and was captain of the 1928 Medford championship team. He was an All-State guard on Medford’s state championship basketball team.

Bill went on to the University of Oregon, again under the leadership of Coach Prink Callison, and again captain his senior year. He was named All Coast Tackle 3 times. After graduation from the University of Oregon he became an All-League Tackle for the N.Y. Giants where Coach Steve Owen, in a New York American story, said of him: “Morgan was the outstanding player on the field today. Without question, he played the greatest game of tackle I have ever seen. And if his play today was to continue as his standard, I would say that he was the greatest tackle of all time.” During that brief span Bill was twice named to the All-League First All-Star team and once was named to the second squad. He was the first player from Oregon to gain all-professional recognition.

Bill was inducted into the Oregon Hall of Fame in 1981 and had received word of his forthcoming induction into the Medford Sports Hall of Fame before his death in July of 1985. His sister, Madelyn Sander of Medford, said: “He was so proud to have been included in this prestigious award, Medford was the home he always wanted to return to.”