Hall of Fame
Roy "Pooch" Petragallo was a member of the National Championship WSU boxing team of 1937 and one of the finest intercollegiate fighters of his era at 118 pounds. Pooch won the Idaho Golden Gloves title in 1933, the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate title in 1935, Washington and Pacific Coast AAU Golden Gloves titles in 1936, and both the Pacific Coast and National Intercollegiate titles in 1937. He was WSC's first national boxing champion. Petragallo was beaten only three times in 115 collegiate fights and came back to defeat all three of the boxers who had previously beaten him. He was named to the Hearst Newspaper All-America boxing team in 1937 and inducted into the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.
