Championship Stories

Episode 19: 1946 Harry Agganis and Lynn Classical


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Harry Agganis quarterbacked Lynn Classical High School to a de facto national football championship on Christmas night, 1946, at the Orange Bowl. A year later he refused to play in the same championship game as a protest against racial segregation. Agganis was a two-sport star who later played with the Boston Red Sox but whose career was cut short, tragically, by his death at age 26.
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Championship StoriesBy Steve Marantz

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