Doug Grutchfield

[SignMan]

This thread starts out with me driving by The Daily Bagel in Leominster a couple of days ago. Lorenzo was with me while I was doing a few errands near there. A couple of big store windows were boarded up, looking like someone might have driven into The Daily Bagel, so I google searched it and found...
http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/br ... el-tuesday
Owner Joe Costa and I have chatted many times re: sports, including UM and his soccer history from Italy to Fitchburg and UMaine.

An additional search led to a piece on the Fitchburg Athletics HOF. Joe was elected to it last year and we had talked about it...
The write-ups got into Doug Grutchfield...

Found more...

http://www.umassathletics.com/news/2006 ... nored.aspx
http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/hi ... -hall-fame

[Old Cage]

SM - Thanks for the S&E article. Many memories there for me:

1. Jack Conway - mentioned as FHS AD in the early 70's - was a qb for UMass while I was an undergrad
2. Peter Stephens - mentioned as an FHS HOF member - was my FHS classmate
3. Pamela Kirousis - mentioned as the daughter of a FHS HOF member - is the spouse of my baseball teammate

I could go on for quite a while about Grutch, but i have done that before in long ago threads. I hope that current UMass generations understand how really, really good he was.

[DrG]

When I enrolled at UMass a million years ago, Doug Grutchfield was the all-time leading scorer until Clarence Hill surpassed him in 1966. Five years later, Julius Erving surpassed Hill by a point (in just two years of varsity ball).

[daveyboy]

The northern kingdoms has a rich Umass athletic heritage
Leominster: Milt Morinby way of St Bernard s in Fitchburg
John Dubzinski legendary Leominster head coach
son of Walt Dubzinski Sr, John Hulecki,Dave Palazzi,
Mike Fallon , though I think he came from Clinton then ended up in Leominster

Don t forget Gardner either: Joe Sabulis football
Phil Tarpey baseball and John Awdicki baseball.