(d. February 27, 2010) Dick Gray’s Benson boys basketball teams won five state championships, and he was once ranked as the all-time winningest coach in Oregon history.

Gray spent 38 years at Benson High and finished his career with 560 victories. Among the many players Gray coached, standouts who went on to college and professional fame include A.C. Green and Richard Washington.

He was a three-sport star at Roosevelt who went on to play four years of football at Oregon State in the late 1940s (1945 and 1947-49).