Word: healey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Jim Lightbody of track, Captain Tom Healey of baseball and Captain Howard Mendel of soccer were individual greats of the year. One of the Crimson's greatest competitors and middle-distance runners, Lightbody doubled in the 600 and 1000 to inspire the trackmen to their Quadrangular win. He set a new Harvard half-mile record, and lost to Burrowes of Princeton by a fraction in the I.C.A.A.A.A, half mile, one of the great foot races of all time...
Dick Harlow will not be confronted with the major reconstruction job that was his a year ago, but graduation will take an average toll from the Harvard football camp. Fleet Torble Macdonald will no longer grace the Soldiers Field gridiron, and scholar-athlete Tom Healey leaves a gaping hole at right tackle. Mose Hallett, another tackle veteran, graduates, making that position Coach Harlow's number one problem area. In addition to those three men, Jim Devine, Bart Kelley, Ernie Sargeant, George Downing, Bill Coleman, and Frazier Curtis will be among the missing when football season rolls around again...
Much improved in its last engagements, the injury and probation-ridden Stahlmen should, however, prove a considerable obstacle for Coach Jack Barry's charges. Brightest light of the season is the pitching of Burgy Ayres, who, with Captain Tom Healey nursing a sore arm, has borne the main brunt of the mound work...
Lanky right-hander Burgy Ayres will get the call to start on the mound for the home-guard while hurler Ed Barry should go the route for the New England College champions. Coach Stahl's forces will be at full strength except for Captain Tom Healey. A sore flinging arm will keep him from his regular job on the slope and from his auxiliary role in the vacant right field spot. As a result either Lee Hartstone or Bill Parsons will take over in the outer reaches...
Also connected with the drive are Peter E. Pratt '40, Blair Clark '40, Thomas V. Healey '40, Torbett H. Macdonald '40, Robert J. Glaser, Jr. '40, P. Loring Reed, Jr. '40, and Phillips Hallowell...