SPORTS CATEGORY

Jennings – baseball; Bristol High School – cross country, track; CCSU – Track, cross country, baseball tri-city league (1951); basketball Bilodeau Athletic Club ’51-53; bowling – Bristol Teachers League ’55-56.

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STATISTICS

Track – Bristol High 1948-49; Captain  Coach – Scotty Carter; Hartford Invitation Indoor track meet; mile 4^th place first competitive race; Hartford Invitation Indoor track meet 8 lap relay 1^st place; CIAC indoor track & field champions mile 2^nd place; Inter-class meet mile & half mile – 1^st; In eight dual meets defeated only twice; YMCA Invitational won the mile and half mile; State Invitational mile – 5^th time 4:43.  Cross Country Bristol High School, 1949 Captain competed 1 year, coach Daniel Griffiths; undefeated in dual competition; set record for Page Park course (14:32) 2.6 mile course; team won 6 and lost 2; CIAC State meet 5^th place (140 runners from 17 high schools); Thanksgiving Day Manchester 5 mile road race – 13^th place – 3^rd in high school division – time 27:26.  Track – CCSU 1950-53; Coach – Dean Owens. In most dual meets I would run the mile, 2 miles and sometimes on the mile relay team.  Broke the mile record 1951 4:53; tied the half mile record (2:06:1) 1952; broke two mile record 10:31.5 – 1952; member of mile relay team that broke record (3:39.8); Metropolitan small college invitational – 2 miles = 1^st 10:33.3 TCC won the metropolitan small college invitational and most of its dual meets in 1952 & 1953.

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The teams I coached in Bristol did not have a practice field or gym at the school and so it was necessary to travel for all practices and games.  Coaching was done in addition to a regular teaching assignment.  I still remember most of the players I coached and see them from time to time.

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