University of Vermont Athletic Hall of Fame
John T. Conway 1928 - Baseball, Football
Jack Conway, a 1974 UVM Hall of Fame inductee, was considered one of the most honored athletes ever to attend Vermont. Conway, who passed away in 1963, received letters in football and baseball, playing both sports on the varsity level for four years.
Labeled the "iron man" of UVM, Conway played in all 102 contests in baseball from 1925-28 and missed only one period in four years of varsity football. He was a shortstop in baseball and quarterbacked the football team, serving as captain in baseball his senior year.
After graduation in 1928, Conway began his teaching and coaching career in New London, Conn., at Chapman Tech, serving as its athletic director form any years. Conway remained at the school as its business manager and baseball coach after the school changed its name to New London High School. A year before his death, he picked up his 300th win in baseball. The New London High School gymnasium is named after Conway.
Conway's coaching mark is unmatched in Connecticut high school sports and as Jack Cruise wrote in the New London (Conn.) Day shortly after Conway's death, "If ever a man rated a place in a Hall of Fame, it's this man. He gave his life for the young men who played for him."
