Athletics Hall of Fame
Martin Kenney '36 was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987. Kenney was the captain of the 1937 football team, leading the Hawks to a 5-2 record. The campus newspaper described his performance with the following write-up:
“Marty climaxed a grand season, with a grand performance. Wherever the pigskin went that Saturday, there was always a black helmet and nose guard hovering about, and under that black nose guard and helmet stood a six-foot-tall real Irish football material. Martin J. Kenney is just as good as that name would lead you to believe.”
His coaches called him the perfect player and one of his teammates in describing him said that he was a “peerless leader and shining star of the football team; you could always see him in there tackling and blocking with equal facility.”
He was, as his College yearbook describes him, an example of the mental, moral and physical perfection which athletic competition can produce.
