Leon Spivack
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Sport:
Football |
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Year
Graduated: 1938, '40 |
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Year
Inducted: 1965 |
A graduate of the business school, followed by a Master's
Degree at SED, Leon recorded an impressive athletic and academic
record while at Boston University. A football letterman on
the 1935 (3-4-2), 1936 (5-1-2) and 1937 (6-2-0) teams, and
Captain of the 1937 eleven, Leon was described in the HUB,
"Captain Spivack preferred the unheralded drudgery of
blocking, player and a grand leader, Spiv bowed out, as was
characteristic of him, playing a great game against Boston
College." In that game, the Terriers emerged victorious
and for the first time, "entered the game as favorites."
He was named "Athlete of the Year" in 1938.
In the classroom he earned Dean's List honors in '36, '37
and '38, as well as making the National Honor Society and
the Dean's Cabinet in 1938.
Since graduation, he served in the Army Air Corps as an athletic
instructor at OCS and Director of Physical Fitness at Hillsgrove
and Suffolk Air Force Bases. He was a partner in a wholesale
meat business in Connecticut at the time of his induction.
