The Wenner-Wingate Memorial Lecture on the History and Literature of Sport was established by Dr. Evelyn Wingate Wenner, a professor of English at the college from 1931 to 1967, in memory of her husband, C. Malcolm Wenner Jr., and her brother, W. Wilson Wingate.  The lecture is jointly hosted by the Departments of English and Exercise Science & Physical Education.

List of Presenters
• 2007 – Dr. Michael Oriard, Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University. Click here for more information on Dr. Oriard's lecture titled “Manly Heroes, Adoring Coeds, and Dumb Jocks: The Development of Football Stories in Fiction, Film, and Popular Art.”

• 2006 – Dr. Steven N. Blair, President and CEO of the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas. Click here for more information on Dr. Blair's lecture titled "“Physical Activity: The Biggest Public Health Problem of the 21st Century”.

• 2004 – Michael Wilbon, Washington Post Sports Columnist and Co-host of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption

• 2003 – Eugene D. Orza, Associate General Counsel of the Major League Baseball Players Association

• 2002 – Dr. Bruce Latimer, Executive Director, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Curator of the Department of Physical Anthropology; also Director of the Biological Anthropology program in the Department of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University Medical School

• 2001 – Dr. Jack H. Wilmore, Distinguished Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University

• 1999 – Dr. Kenneth L. Adelman, National Editor, Washingtonian Magazine

• 1998 – Dr. Pamela Tudor-Craig, F.S.A., Scholar, teacher, and lecturer in English Art and Architecture

• 1997 – Barbara Wells Sarudy, Executive Director, Maryland Humanities Council

• 1995 – Dr. Thomas Vennum Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist, Center for Folklife Programs, Smithsonian Institute

• 1994 – Dr. William B. Briggs, Esq., Adjunct Professor, Cornell University Law School

• 1993 – Dr. Nancy L. Struna, Associate Professor, University of Maryland

• 1992 – Linda Crocker Simmons, Associate Curator of Collections, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art

• 1991 – Dr. Gerald L. Early, Associate Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, Washington University

• 1990 – Dr. Ronald A. Smith, Sports Historian and Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University