Inductees

One of the few to “challenge the color line” in athletics; baseball at PA; dubbed by Boston Globe as “one of the most prominent Negro members of the bar in America;” 4-year varsity baseball at Harvard; played professional baseball in the summer of 1905, in Vermont's "outlaw" Northern League; worked closely with Booker T. Washington, black separatist Marcus Garvey, and President Calvin Coolidge.

Played basketball, track, golf, and tennis at Andover; Athletic Council; golfed and sailed at Harvard; first tried sailing when he registered in Marblehead Race Week, one of the oldest and most prestigious regattas in North America (in the sailing world, this is akin to learning how to drive by entering the Indianapolis 500); national and world sailing champion; Yacht Racing Hall of Fame;returned to Andover as director of admissions, instructor in mathematics, coach for Yacht Racing Club and golf teams; retired from PA in 1972; long-time supporter of Massachusetts Audubon Society; honored by Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for his work in this field.

Youngest-ever men's AAU swimming champion when he won the National Long Distance title at 13; coached at Yale by legendary Robert Kiphuth; U.S. team's oldest Pan American champion at 24; won 21 national swimming competition titles, 3 Pan American Games gold medals, 3 Olympic gold medals (one of which he won at the 1948 London Olympics while a student at Andover); International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Varsity soccer and ice hockey at Andover; Phillipian writer; Secretary of the Philomethian Society; president of Student Congress; Ice hockey at Princeton for 4 years, broke 3 scoring records; Hobey Baker Award; U.S. Hockey Team in 1961, and by 1966 had retired from his own hockey career in order to pursue coaching; board of the Wildlife Conservation Trust and  Worldwatch Institute; founded the Sopris Foundation; HeritageAspen’s Hall of Fame.

Beloved football and track coach at Andover from 1936 – 1977; as head football coach, led teams to  five undefeated seasons (including the 1952 season), and six more seasons with only one loss;  came to Andover from Fordham University, where he played running back with Vince Lombardi on the most successful Fordham football team in the history of that university; namesake for the Sorota Track Award; Andover's Sorota Track was named in his honor; Special Recognition Award from the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association; NCAA award for 35 years of coaching; lifetime member award for the American Football Coaches’ Association.

4-year Phelps Scholar and Tri-Varsity athlete, captaining field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse as a senior; Blue Key leader; Phillipian writer; played ice hockey and lacrosse at Princeton, captaining both teams as a senior; Second Team All-Ivy (Defense) for ice hockey.

Came to Andover as a new Upper; football, basketball, track, honor student, National Merit Semi-Finalist; “Athlete of the Term;" as a senior, Pittman ran for 1,067 yards in 139 attempts with 9 touchdowns; 7.5-yard average per rush; played at Penn State University under coach Joe Paterno, who also coached Pittman’s father, Charlie; as father and son, Charlie and Tony started a combined 46 games under Paterno, with a cumulative record of 45 wins, 0 losses, and 1 tie (believed to be  most successful record of any father/son pair in college football); wrote Playing for Paterno.

Under coach Stephen S. Sorota, this was the first undefeated season since 1948; amassed 194 points while allowing 38 points totaled by their opponents all season; held Exeter to a rushing total of eleven yards in their 59-0 win, the greatest Andover slaughter in the 72-year series.