Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-24
Many Star Athletes
In 1922 Graduating
Class Holy Cross

Worcester, Mass, June g.
Among the 120 students who received
sheepskins for which they have been
toiling these last four years there Will
pass a list of athletes that have made
the name of Holy Cross sung far and
wide. An even dozen will be plucked
from the football, baseball and track
teams and their services will be miss
cd severely in days to come.
Numbered among them there pass
G into history one of the greatest
of Holy Cross list of super stars,
Chick Gagnon, who has scintillated
on the baseball diamond, the football
field and the basketball court with
reckless abandon for the past four
years, is at last out of the Purple
picture.
The name of GaSnon has a magic
sound to Holy Cross men. lie has
been the Eddie Mahan, the Ted Coy
the Ralph Glaze of Nj. st. James.
With the close OF the great war
came Gagnon to Holy Cross out of
the service. He had made n name as
a baseball star at Worcester Acad-
envy.
With the call to baseball in the
spring he was out there and from
the start he made good.
For four years Gagnon has starred
in the Holy Cross infeld He has
been acclaimed the best college
shortstop in the east for the past
two years.
On the football field his name was
Fnu ct
strong Harvard teams in the Stadium,
despite the most extreme vigilance On
the part of the Crimson defence, made
him mentioned for all-American hon
ors for three years.
Holy Cross did not have varsity
basketball team until his third year,
but he Immediately proved the best
player at the college and was elected
captain. Single. handed he beat Bos-
ton College at Boston in the first game.
Holy Cross never lost baseball
game to Boston College during Gag
mons four years. In three attempts
at football Gagnon was on the win
ming team against his old rival, and
in basketball Holy Cross won every
start while Gagnon was at the col
lege.
Gagnon's loss is particularly severe
on account of his participation in three
sports. but there are a number of 9TH
ers in the graduating class whose
places Will be most difficult to fill.
Gagnon has represented the Purple
varsity for three years at football,
four years in baseball and two years
in basketball, S much in each sport
as it was possible for him.
Take DEM. Gildea, captain of last
years football team; Art Wallingford.
the brilliant quarterback on the team
that beat Boston College 41-O; Freddie
NJ; .suire, the greatest second baseman
in the college world; Leo Dugan, lett
fielder on the crack baseball team; Bill
Case and Truck Milan. two of the
mainstays of the football line; Capt.
Ferris of the track team and Steve
Wackell, the local boy. who has been
one of the big point winners in dual
Laughlin. forward and center. respec-
lively, on the basketball team that won
the college championship of New Eng
land last year. That represents some
tall athletic timber.
Freddie Maguir@ made the second
base berth his first year aid has re-
manned there ever since. Baseball
was the only sport that Freddie went
in for
Leo Dugan subbed on the baseball
team his first year, due to tn pres
ence of Jiggcr STATE. Capt. Chick
Brown and Till DAILY. The next three
years saw young Dugan patroning
the garden next to the river and per-
forming spectacular stunts both a.
field and at bat
Football was pretty near the ex-
tent of Gildea's labors, although he
played on the freshman baseball
team and in his second year took
part in several minor games with the
varsity.
Wallingford played at quarterback.
Gildea was regular center his entire
four years.
Although inland was with the
squad his whole four years, it was
not until the final two that he be-
came a full -fledged regular lineman.
Bill case started playing football
at Holy Cross and developed into one
of the best college guards in the
country. His ESQ pounds of beef ~-ns
a great help to the light Purple line.