WALLY RIGHTON
Gateway Football Conference

Football official for 38 years; college official since 1979. Referee in the Gateway Football Conference since 1986. Has worked eleven I-AA (now FCS) playoff games including the 1989 I-AA National Championship game in Statesboro GA.

Inducted into the Central Officials Association Hall of Fame in 2001; member of the COA Board of Directors 1981-84; Football Committee member, 1979-97; Football Committee Co-Chair, 1984-89; presenter at Mid-Continent Officials Clinic, 1985-92 and CFO Clinic since 1993. President of the Gateway Football Officials Association, 1988-91.

B.S. from Chicago State University , 1970; M.S. from Northern Illinois University , 1974. Retired educator of 34 years; currently employed as the Superintendent of Parks & Recreation for the Village of Willowbrook . Married to Joan; 2 daughters; 1 granddaughter.