Hall of Fame
Archie Buckley won nine varsity letters at Washington State, three each in football, basketball and baseball. A quarterback and kicker in football, his 25-yard field goal beat Gonzaga 3-0 in 1928, and in 1929 he came off the bench to rally the Cougars from a 13-0 deficit to a 20-13 win over Washington. Cougar teams went 7-3 and 10-2 his last two seasons, and he kicked a school record 46-yard field goal against Oregon State in 1929. A forward for coach Jack Friel's first two basketball teams, he was the second leading scorer in the Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division his senior year. Buckley was a member of Buck Bailey’s first-four baseball teams. He coached at Chehalis High School (1930-31) and North Central (Spokane) High School (1931-42). He took a leave of absence in 1942 to fight in WWII and was killed Feb. 21, 1945, by a Japanese airstrike while aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga.
