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SHS Athletic Hall Of Fame Inductee Alvin Mawson
Stonington High School Will Induct Eight Graduates And One Coach Into The Stonington High School Athletic Hall Of Fame
will induct eight graduates and one coach into the Stonington High School Athletic Hall of Fame at a ceremony on .
Over the next week Stonington-Mystic Patch will publish the biographies of each inductee that were compiled by the SHS Athletic Hall of Fame Committee.
Alvin Mawson, Class of 1916
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Alvin Mawson participated in football and baseball at SHS.
As a member of the football team, he started at tackle as a sophomore, and as a junior captained the team, starting at fullback and handling the kicking duties as the team went 7-1-1 and won its first Eastern Connecticut Conference championship. He also served as co-captain as a senior.
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He had a 6-0 record as a pitcher for the baseball team as a sophomore, and went 9-1 as a junior, batting .388, as the Bears won their first ECC championship with a 11-3 overall record. As senior captain, he batted .386 and was 5-2 from the mound.
He later served in the United States Navy.
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