BOILING SPRINGS - Gardner-Webb will name its football field after former coach Norman Harris, one of the founding fathers of the athletics program at GWU.

Sports writer Richard Walker details Harris' career at Gardner-Webb in an article posted on the Shelby Star's website. Click here to read the entire story.

From Wednesday's Shelby Star:

BOILING SPRINGS – When Norman Harris came to Gardner-Webb Junior College in 1949, the college had no lighted facilities and a gymnasium that would be condemned three years later.

So if Harris were still alive – he died in 2003 – he would've been thrilled to know school officials were naming the field at its recently-renovated state-of-the-art football facility after him. He also would've been pleased to see an impressive basketball arena a few hundred yards away and hear that future college building plans call for a new Bulldogs' baseball stadium.