Clayton Conn

MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS, Class of 1941

Basketball, 3 years

Track, 2 years

Football, 4 years

Clayton Conn was a two-way player in the era of single wing formations, and helmets without face guards. In a time when 200 pound players were rare, Clayton was a 155 pound guard who also played End and Linebacker. Then, as now, Lineman get rare notice but the Boston Globe called him "155 pounds of dynamite" and the Boston Post cited him as being"a scrappy 155 pound guard you could wish for." Conn was one of Melrose's Eleven Iron Men. In the 1940 Thanksgiving game Coach Poole played 11 men for the entire game, without substitution which was unheard of in high school football before or since. The game was won on a safety by Clayton Conn and Bob Ford and Melrose Melrose beat favored Arlington 8-7. Clayton was also a Football Line Coach for three MHS coaches, assisted in basketball and started the first Melrose High School Soccer team.

COLLEGE ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS, University of New Hampshire

Football: Unenrolled to enlist in the service during WWII

Tufts University

London University

MILITARY SERVICE

WWII - European Theater of Operations, 39 months

Induction Year, Class of 2013