# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-halas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:33.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-halas"
name: "Walter Halas"
slug: "walter-halas"
description: "Walter Henry Halas was an American baseball player and coach of American football, basketball, and baseball. He played college baseball at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1914 to 1916 as a pitcher for the Fighting Illini. Halas later pitched in minor league baseball for the Davenport Blue Sox, Moline Plowboys, and Rock Island Islanders of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. In 1924, he pitched a no-hitter for the Hanover Raiders of the Blue Ridge League."
tagline: "American football coach, basketball coach, and baseball player and coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1892-01-15"
deathDate: "1959-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.03
  momentum:             2.384615384615385
  historical:           1.539129333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Halas"
    title: "Walter Halas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18125414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations