Washburn University Athletics

Gary Yager - Football (1972-75)
Gary Yager was a four-year member of the Washburn football squad, missing just one season due to injury. He was a first team all-CSIC selection as a senior after wrapping up his career with 1,297 rushing yards which was the fifth-highest at the end of his career. He has 12 career touchdowns and four 100-yard rushing games while leading the Ichabods in rushing as a junior and senior. He rushed for 784 yards as a senior with eight touchdowns and his rushing total would have been the third-highest single-season total in school history. He rushed for a career-high 135 yards on 28 carries against Pittsburg State as a senior. His junior season, he rushed for 439 yards on 119 carries with three touchdowns. His 862 all-purpose yards led the Ichabods as a senior as did his 54 points scored on nine touchdowns. He led the team in rushing during the 1974 Boot Hill Bowl in a 21-7 win over Millikin with 57 yards rushing on 22 carries. The Boot Hill Bowl win is also his top Washburn sports memory.

Yager graduated from Washburn in 1976 and he is a graduate of East High School in Kansas City. He is the president and CEO of Vision Bank in Topeka. Yager and his wife Widge (also a Washburn graduate) have two sons, Tyson and Tab. He was inducted into the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.