Holy Cross legend Ron Perry Sr., who helped the Crusaders to national titles in two sports, dies at 92

Perry helped pitch the Crusaders to the 1952 NCAA baseball championship and was the starting point guard for HC’s 1954 National Invitational Tournament title team alongside Togo Palazzi and Tommy Heinsohn.

Perry returned to Holy Cross as athletic director in 1972 and held the position for 32 years, overseeing a time where the Crusaders were a perennial postseason competitor. Perry also began the implementation of women’s sports programs into the formally all-male school and oversaw the construction of the Hart Center that gave the basketball, hockey and swim teams a new campus home.

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He is a member of the Somerville, Catholic Memorial, Holy Cross, and ECAC halls of fame and in 1979 the National Association of Basketball Coaches named him to the Silver Anniversary Basketball Team — a team selected annually to recognize outstanding student-athletes from 25 years earlier who went on to distinguish themselves after their collegiate careers. Perry and Bob Cousy are the only Holy Cross athletes to receive this prestigious honor.