A photograph of the track and field team of Springfield College, in 1971. Coach Vernon Cox is seen kneeling at the center of the photograph. Two other student athletes are seen kneeling on each side of Coach Vernon, Larry LaCroix (class of 1970) and Steve Smith (class of 1970). Standing left to right, appear an unknown student-athlete, Harry Merrifield (class of 1971), Bob Kitchen (class of 1970), Roger Moffat (class of 1971), Bill Olson (class of 1973), Ed Walkwitz (class of 1972), an unknown student, Dick Mailloux (class of 1971), Brad Kron (class of 1971) and two other unknown student-athletes.
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Vernon W. Cox graduated from Springfield College in 1944 and immediately joined the Army Air Corp, where he fought in the Pacific Theater. In 1947, he joined the Springfield College faculty as a physical education instructor, where he coached soccer, basketball, tennis, lacrosse, cross country and track and field. In 1977, Cox became the college’s alumni director. He passed away in 1991, after forty-four years of serving the college community.
