A Museum that Celebrates Beating the Odds

Former pro football player and lawyer Harrison B. Wilson III '77 is drawing on his passion for athletics and his persuasiveness as a lawyer to build the Hard Road to Glory Sports Hall of Fame in Richmond, Virginia. The idea: a hall of fame celebrating against-the-odds triumphs. "What we're trying to do is document a struggle." says Wilson, who left his job as a senior associate at Wilson, Woods, Battle & Bootheto implement the project, originally conceived by tennis great Arthur Ashe.

Critics call it a pipe dream. But Wilson knows something about odds-beating himself. He moved up from third string on Dartmouth's freshman football team to All-Ivy League wide receiver, served as president of his class at the University of Virginia Law School, rebounded from his release from die San Diego Chargers to become comanager of product liability at Procter & Gamble, and headed McGuire, Woods's fledgling sports-law team. So, hey, a beating- the-odds museum? Piece of cake. All he has to do is raise $20 million and then market the concept nationally.

Wilson's museum is for odds-breakers.