Northwestern State University Athletics

Also honored with the inaugural “Dream Team” award will be the members of the Demons’ 1955-58 mile relay team in track and field. During those seasons under legendary coach Walter Ledet, Northwestern won all but one race among around three dozen it participated in, including sweeping the Gulf States Conference championships all four years.
 
There were a total of nine athletes who ran on the mile relay team during those four years:  Jack Bice, Don Dean, Charlie Hennigan, Don Hill, Sylvester Jimes, Jack Rogers, J.P. Self, Harold Gene Smith and Murrell “Sister” Walker. The University of Houston was the only team during that four-year stretch to outrun the Demons’ quartet in what remains often the signature event of any track meet.