Boston University

He is John J. O'Hare, Jr., Esq., but to the members of the Boston University Hall of Fame he is known as "Brick." He earned this sobriquet as a youth at English H.S. prior to World War I, and prior to the lethal helmets used in modern day football.

Brick was a dash man on the track team and was able to outrun the defenders. In football, the quarterback knew that he could depend on Brick's sure hands. He played with Mickey Cochrane, Spike Carlson and Moose Washburn and was included on the Boston Post (1947) All-Time BU Football Team.

Although Brick was studying law at BU School of Law, he managed to find time for football, track and baseball. He also was a hockey buff, and the present hockey program can thank Brick O'Hare for founding hockey at BU. For several years he tried to get President Daniel L. Marsh to permit the Terriers to field a hockey team.

He found a sympathetic ear in the then-Athletic Director George V. Brown, father of Walter Brown Arena, for whom the BU hockey rink was named. The team of O'Hare and Brown finally got their way, and BU was on its way to become the hockey power it has been over the years, with Brick as the first BU hockey coach.