• Competed for the Golden Bears basketball team for three years.
• Named as an alternate to Canada's Olympic basketball squad in 1956.
• Offered opportunities to join the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers in baseball.
• Won the Brier championship in curling in 1957 and 1958; selected as All-Star lead in 1958.
• Inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1986.

Bill Price (BSc '49) is one of the finest athletes to have participated in sport programs in the Province of Alberta. Regardless of the sport in which he elected to participate, he was a star performer. When he arrived at the University of Alberta in 1945 to join the Golden Bears basketball team, he came with a list of outstanding athletic accomplishments. The year previous he captained his Victoria High School team to a provincial championship and he had won the Edmonton Junior Baseball League batting championship during the summer season of 1945.

At the University of Alberta, Bill played three seasons with the Golden Bears. In his final year, 1947- 1948, he captained the team to a final championship - three game series with UBC. Both teams were vying for the right to represent Canada at the London Olympic Games. As sporting fortunes would have it, the Golden Bears did not win and Bill noted that he would not have been able to participate in the Olympics had the team prevailed. The Olympic rules of his era restricted Olympic play to those athletes who fell within a constrictive definition of an amateur. Bill's basketball team lost out in Olympic playoffs in 1952. In 1956, as a fitting recognition of his outstanding basketball skills, he was named as an alternate to Canada's Olympic squad despite the issue of his status under the amateur rules of the IOC. Bill's outstanding talents as a basketball player were recognized by coaches in the USA. In 1951 the head coach at the University of Seattle (a program which featured the then famous O'Brien twins) invited him to use up his remaining years of university athletic eligibility playing for his team. But Bill had already set himself on the path to a career in Alberta's oil industry and turned down the invitation.

While Bill Price was a star amateur basketball player, he was also a highly regarded semiprofessional baseball player in Alberta. Although he did not become a full-fledged professional baseball player, the opportunity to do so was extended to him. Both the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him the opportunity to join their organizations. He elected, instead, to complete his chemical engineering degree at the University. Bill spent his professional life in the petroleum industry where he made significant contributions to Alberta's oil industries. He rose through the ranks to become President of Mid-Western Industrial Gas and, following a series of mergers, the President of Pan Ocean Oil Ltd.

This inductee's athletic career included more than the sports of baseball and basketball. In 1956, Bill turned his attention to the world of curling. Within a year he was recruited by Alberta's Matt Baldwin to play lead for his foursome. The Baldwin team went on to win Brier championships in 1957 and 1958. Bill Price was selected as the All-Star Lead as a consequence of his outstanding play during his second Brier championship.

In 1986 Bill was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and his Alma Mater is proud to recognize his outstanding leadership and athleticism by inducting him into the University Of Alberta Sports Wall Of Fame.