{"id":1319,"date":"2014-06-02T18:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T18:03:49","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-2014-joseph-lynch-1910-football-basketball-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2014\/06\/02\/athletic-hall-of-fame-2014-joseph-lynch-1910-football-basketball-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame 2014: Joseph Lynch 1910 (Basketball, Baseball)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2014\/06\/Joseph-Lynch.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1321\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2014\/06\/Joseph-Lynch.jpeg\" alt=\"Joseph Lynch\" width=\"180\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Joseph Lynch attended Williston for three years. Although he played\u00a0class (intramural) football, and excelled at baseball, where played varsity on in each of his three years, basketball was where he dominated. He scored 132 points himself in the 1908 season, which is particularly impressive given that Williston\u2019s opponents scored a total of 189 points that season.<\/p>\n<p>As captain of the undefeated championship team in 1909, he was named most valuable player. That year, he scored 152 points, and the school\u2019s opponents scored 156 points. In 1910, the team was again undefeated and won the league championship. Joseph scored 110 points versus that year\u2019s opponents\u2019 total of 115 points scored.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Joseph scored 394 career points in the 28 games he played during his Williston career. He scored in the double digits in 19 of those games. Joseph went on to play baseball as a pitcher at the College of the Holy Cross. He served in World War I with Battery F of the 51st Division of the Coast Artillery.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>The Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony, dinner, and reception will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014. Register to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=693\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Lynch attended Williston for three years. Although he played\u00a0class (intramural) football, and excelled at baseball, where played varsity on in each of his three years, basketball was where he dominated. He scored 132 points himself in the 1908 season, which is particularly impressive given that Williston\u2019s opponents scored a total of 189 points that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2014\/06\/02\/athletic-hall-of-fame-2014-joseph-lynch-1910-football-basketball-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletic Hall of Fame 2014: Joseph Lynch 1910 (Basketball, Baseball)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletic-hall-of-fame"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}