inductees

Class of 1989

	Richard "Dick" Fletcher Dick Fletcher is one of the truly outstanding sports celebrities in the history of Virginia Sports. He attended Penn State University and the University of Chattanooga. He had just turned twenty-one when he signed on as head football coach at Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia. His Maury Commodores won two state high school championships in 1932 and 1935. They tied for another state championship in 1929. Fletcher’s 1935-1936 baseball team won the Tidewater Interscholastic League Championship and the state title. His baseball team had a 58-24 win-loss record. In 1935-1936, Fletcher’s basketball team won the eastern district title. Over an eight-year span, he accumulated 91 wins and 40 losses; he had only one losing season. Fletcher coached the University of Virginia freshman football, basketball and baseball teams from 1936 to 1956. His coaching career was interrupted in 1943 when he joined the U.S. Army. Fletcher spent two years in Europe, where he won a Bronze Star and five campaign ribbons. He was discharged as a Major in 1945. When he returned, Fletcher was chosen to serve as Executive Secretary of the Virginia Literary and Athletic League, today’s Virginia High School League. He left this position to become the University of Virginia Associate Director and Director of Admissions. After 20 years of coaching at the University, Fletcher then turned his attention to one of the largest college fraternities at Virginia, Sigma Nu, for whom he served as Executive Secretary. He helped move the headquarters from Indianapolis to Lexington, Virginia and developed a $400,000 headquarters at Charlottesville. Fletcher was named to Sigma Nu’s highest honor, the Hall of Honor. He was subsequently elected president of Sigma Nu’s Educational Foundation. Fletcher also was the prime mover in raising funds for the restoration of Stonewall Jackson’s house in Lexington, Virginia. (To Sports Inductees List)