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danny williams
This former Mountaineer quarterback is the only
scholarship athlete to be selected
as a Rhodes Scholar from
West Virginia University.
Who is he?
As the state's best high school football player in 1972 and 1973, Belle's Danny Williams became the first player in West Virginia prep history to win the Kennedy Award twice. At WVU, the DuPont High School graduate saw varsity action at quarterback, but he eventually lost out to Dan Kendra as the Mountaineers' starting signal caller. Williams' calling, however, would come from off the football field. Daniel Walter Williams III was a chemistry major planning on attending medical school when he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study abroad. After earning his BA degree from WVU in 1978, Williams spent two years at Queen's College in Oxford. In 1984, he earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina and spent a year as a faculty member at UNC. He then accepted a fellowship to study neuroradiology at Wake Forest University, where he became a professor of radiology.
West Virginia University has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars throughout its history, and Williams is the only one who came to Morgantown on an athletic scholarship.
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