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).