Alfred M. McCoy, who has since passed away, was inducted into the Hall of Fame for his achievements as a coach of baseball, basketball and football.
McCoy arrived on Huntington Avenue in 1929 and coached baseball and basketball for eight years and after founding the sport of football at Northeastern in 1932, coached varsity for four years. McCoy himself was an outstanding football player, and played both offensive and defensive end for the 1922 Penn State team that lost to USC 14-3 in the Rose Bowl; the first game ever played in the present Rose Bowl.
He had many fine seasons as a coach of basketball and baseball. His 1931-34 basketball teams compiled records of 12-9, 10-5, 9-7 and 10-3 respectively. In baseball, his 1934 team finished 12-2, the best winning percentage in Northeastern baseball history. His first varsity eleven on the gridiron, captained by NU Hall of Famer Brad Johnson, was 1-3-1. The next year they were 6-1-1 and in 1935, the Huskies enjoyed their first undefeated season with a 5-0-3 record. His last year of 1936 they were 5-4 and already playing teams of the caliber of Boston College. In between coaching all these sports, McCoy also taught a full load of hours as an English instructor, and wrote for the popular magazine, The Open Road for Boys.
After coaching stops at Colby, Harvard, Washington and the professional Boston Yanks, it was to English he would return in the end. He wrote sports for the San Diego Tribune from 1964-1974.
