University of Vermont Athletic Hall of Fame
Carroll F. "Ginny" Gooch 1929 - Football
One of the great passing quarterbacks to play at UVM, Carroll "Ginny" Gooch was an All-East football player who earned three gridiron letters. Gooch, a 1974 UVM Hall of Fame inductee, was later a teacher and coach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J.
In 1922, he kicked the winning field goal against Dartmouth, only the fourth time in 20 years that Dartmouth lost a home game. Against Springfield College in 1923, Gooch completed 19 of 24 passes and New York's celebrated sports columnist, Grantland Rice, called it a "world record" at that time. He was selected to the All-East team following the 1923 season.
A native of Manchester, N.H. and a graduate of Manchester Central, he returned for an awards banquet in 1970 and was hailed as one of the best schoolboy football players in the East from 1917-19.
