Larsen Wagner was elected in to the Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1976.

Few coaches in the history of Baldwin-Wallace have groomed as many successful athletes as Lars Wagner. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1926 he served the B-W athletic program in a coaching capacity for 23 years, assisting former head coach and athletic director Ray E. Watts in football and basketball, while heading the direction of the baseball program.

Lars master-minded the Yellow Jackets cagers to a third place finish in the NAIA basketball championship in the mid-fourties, after an illness sidelined Watts, and recorded a 28-19 record in his three year tenure between 1944-46. 

Credited with rebuilding the B-W baseball team and making it a recognized varsity sport, Lars' illustrious career was climaxed on January 5th, 1967, when he received the 25-year distinguished service award, presented by the American Association of College Baseball Coaches of the NCAA. He also organized 16-activity intramural program in 1947, with 78% of the male campus body participating in the program, and conducted the Cleveland high school sectional, district, and regional basketball tournaments at B-W.

Lars coached for 36 years in all, including stops at Oberlin, Waite and DeVilbiss High Schools and a three year stay at ohio-Wesleyan between 1941-44. A member of Oberlin's championship football teams in 1924 an 1925, the ALL-OAC football center earned his master's degree in health and physical education from Columbia University in 1935 and began to work on his doctorate at the University of Michigan.

Lars and his wife Ruth lived in Saraosta, Florida and had one daughter, Constance, '59.