JOHN C. FOLEY: When you think of athletics at Plymouth State College, the name of John C. Foley immediately comes to mind. This popular and extremely talented individual served as coach, teacher and administrator at Plymouth from 1946 until his retirement in 1978.
Foley, whose players still refer to him as “Coach,” was the head mentor of men’s basketball at Plymouth from 1947 to 1965, and during that span compiled a successful 107-136 career record along with a New England small college championship in 1959.
He also coached baseball for 15 years at the White Mountain campus and many of his former basketball and baseball players are coaching throughout New Hampshire and the rest of New England.
The highly-popular coach also served as athletic director, English professor, director of the physical education department at PSC, and from 1965 until 1978 was Dean of the College. In 1969 the new gymnasium was dedicated in his name.
Foley was an outstanding football and basketball player at St. Anselm College where he graduated in 1943 before entering the U.S. Army during World War II. Four years ago (1981) he was inducted into the St. Anselm College Hall of Fame.
John Foley is synonymous with everything that athletics at Plymouth State stands for. His family consists of wife Marilyn, sons John, Bob and Bill, plus daughter Martha.
