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Robert "Rabbit" White

  • Class
    1932
  • Induction
    2003
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Baseball, Men's Basketball, Men's Track and Field

Football, Baseball, Basketball, Track.

- All New England quarterback in 1931 (scored 72 points).

- Established an SC record for the longest kickoff return for a touchdown (96 yards - stood from 1930-1975).

- Coached football, basketball and baseball at Proctor Academy (VT) for two seasons.

- Coached football, basketball, and baseball at Bellows Free Academy (VT) for 36 years.

- His Bellows Free Academy football teams compiled nine championships (1933, '40, '52, '53, '54, '58, '59, '60, '61), while his basketball teams had three consecutive championship seasons (1958, '59, '60).

- Named Vermont coach of the year five times (1951, '53, '58, '59, '66). 

- Selected as head coach for Vermont in the first annual Vermont vs. New Hampshire Shrine Game (1959).

- Bellows Free Academy renamed their mascot the "Bobwhites"

- In 1968, the city of St. Albans proclaimed a "Bob White Day" in his honor.

- Became known as the "Dean of Vermont Coaches," by the Vermont Sports Writers Association.

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