Hall of Fame
Walter Mulvihill was Holy Cross’ first national track champion. He won both the New England and National AAU 600-yard run in 1924, becoming the first runner from Holy Cross to win either event. In 1924 and 1925, he also won the Col. Gaston 600-yard special in Boston sponsored by the American Legion.
In 1925, Mulvihill teamed with Joe Tierney, Frank Burns and Leo Larrivee to win the two-mile relay in the Loyola Relays in Chicago that opened historic Soldier Field. A year later, he anchored Holy Cross’ one-mile relay team to the IC4A championship and broke the world indoor 600-meter record.
Track coach Bart Sullivan called Mulvihill “the smartest and most courageous runner I every coached. Because he was so smart, he often whipped faster men. He was a runner who never lost a lead once he got in front.”
After graduating from Holy Cross, Mulvihill coached three sports at Portland (Maine) High School for six years before earning a medical degree from the Boston University Medical School in 1939.
He passed away in 1969.
