NORFOLK, Va. – Former Norfolk State University athletics director, track and football coach William “Dick” Price will be one of six inductees in the 2011 class of the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame.

Price, who passed away in 2009, and the other five inductees will be honored at an Oct. 18 banquet at the Norfolk Scope. The other members of the class are former NFL players Roger Brown and Dwight Stephenson, former Norfolk Admirals owner Blake Cullen, and Old Dominion coaches Beth Anders and Wendy Larry. Inductees were selected by a committee along with input from previous inductees and online fan surveys.

Price will be the first sports personality associated with NSU to be inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, which opened in 2008 and will be inducting its fourth class this fall. Reservations are now being accepted for the induction banquet. Tickets are $60 apiece of $400 for a table of eight. Call (757) 622-2222, extension 101.

Price, a Norfolk native, was a 1957 graduate of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). He came to NSU as head track coach and assistant football coach in 1964. Price coached the Spartans to two Division II national track championships (1973 and 1974), and was named CIAA Track Coach of the Year each year from 1971-74.

Price was elevated to head football coach in 1974 and promptly coached the Spartans to three consecutive CIAA championships from 1974-76. He was named CIAA Football Coach of the Year in 1974 and 1975. Price retired from coaching in 1983 and remains NSU's winningest football coach with a career record of 62-41-4 (.598). Fifty-three of Price's former football players entered the ranks of professional football.

After his retirement from coaching, Price became an associate athletics director at NSU. He was named the school's athletics director in 1989, a post he held until 1999. The school's current football stadium, which opened in 1997, is named in Price's honor.

Price is also a member of the NSU Athletics Foundation Sports Hall of Fame, the CIAA Hall of Fame, the Hampton Roads African American Sports Hall of Fame, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. In 1979, he was named the Virginian-Pilot's “Sports Figure of the Decade.”

Price was also a past chairman of the Hampton Roads African American Sports Hall of Fame and became the first African American president of the Norfolk Sports Club in 2003. Price received the Norfolk Sports Club's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.