(Nov. 5, 1919 – May 10, 1996) Ted Wilson coached basketball at Linfield College from 1961 to 1981, winning 322 games and losing 214. A graduate of Boardman High School, he played football, basketball, and baseball at Eastern Oregon State College and was student body president. Wilson coached Linfield to seven NAIA national championship basketball appearances and to seven district NAIA titles and 10 conference crowns.

He was a director of the NAIA tournament in 1983 and an advisor to the director in 1984. Linfield’s new gym is named after him. He is a member of the District II NAIA Hall of Fame and the Eastern Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. He was also a director for 16 years of Perry’s Basketball Camp.  Wilson was inducted into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.