Godfrey, William S.
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All-Round Athlete
William Stephen (“Bill”) Godfrey (1890 – 1983), class of 1914, grew up in Chatham, New Brunswick. He finished high school in Sackville at the Male Academy and continued to study at Mount Allison University for the next four years, beginning in 1910. While attending school, he was an all-round athlete and respected team leader. Mount Allison’s teams won intercollegiate championships in each sport that Godfrey competed in, including rugby football (1910), track and field (1912 and 1913), and hockey (1914).
His first significant mark as an athlete came in his freshman year when he scored the winning try to claim the 1910 Maritime intercollegiate rugby football championship for Mount Allison. Perhaps his greatest achievement as an athlete, however, came in 1914 when he played centre and was captain of Mount Allison’s varsity hockey team. That year, he scored 21 of his team’s 50 goals, and his team won its first Maritime intercollegiate championship. Mount Allison’s hockey team did not repeat as Maritime intercollegiate champions until Godfrey coached the team to victory in 1931.
In October 1977, a trophy was offered in his name at Mount Allison to a male hockey player who best displayed leadership on and off the ice and who also displayed gentlemanly conduct throughout the season. In February 2000, Bill Godfrey was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
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Mount Allison University rugby football team, 1913
Mount Allison University hockey team, with coach William S. Godfrey, 1931
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