Hall of Fame
Winning has followed Ralph "Bill" Ferns '54 wherever he has gone. After being a part of a state championship baseball team in high school, he came to Buena Vista where he was a member of a total of four conference championship teams while earning eight letters as a baseball and football player in the early 1950s.
Despite not playing football until he came to college, Ferns was one of the most respected players on the first football team in school history to win the Iowa Conference championship. After graduating from Buena Vista, he coached high school athletics for eight years and had an overall winning percentage of .759.
