| 2009 |
William Clarence Mathews 1901 (d) |
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.
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| 2009 |
Robert W. Sides '34 |
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.
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| 2009 |
James P. McLane Jr. '49 |
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.
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| 2009 |
John P. McBride '56 |
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.
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| 2009 |
Coach Frank F. DiClemente (d) |
Beloved teacher, coach, mentor from 1935-75; helped build athletic curriculum that emphasized physical fitness and body conditioning; developed intramural team sports program; co-organized Andover Press Club |
| 2009 |
Coach Stephen S. Sorota (d) |
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.
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| 2009 |
Daniel G. Bolduc '72 |
All-time leading scorer in hockey; first freshman ever to make varsity hockey team; played hockey at Harvard; 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics; New England Whalers; Detroit Red Wings |
| 2009 |
Martha Hill Gaskill '78 |
Overcame leg amputation; Ayars Award; silver medalist in slalom in U.S. Disabled Nationals; Sportswoman of Colorado; honored at White House; starred in "The Second Voyage of the MIMI;" twice carried torch at opening ceremonies of Olympic Games |
| 2009 |
Eleanor Tydings Gollob '86 |
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.
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| 2009 |
Tony Pittman '90 |
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.
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| 2009 |
The Football Team of the 1952 Season |
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.
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