• John A. Lester, Sr. Class of 1896 - Cricket and Football
• E. Hambleton "Ham" Welbourn, Jr. Class of 1938 - Soccer and Baseball
• James R. Grosholz Class of 1949 - Cross Country and Track & Field
• Philip "Phil" D'Arrigo Class of 1956 - Football, Basketball and Tennis
• Lydia A. Martin Class of 1986 - Field Hockey and Lacrosse

John A. Lester, Sr. Class of 1896 - Cricket and Football

Called "one of the great figures in American cricket" by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Lester was born in Penrith, England in 1871. He attended Ackworth School in his native Cumberland, but was invited to attend Haverford by President Isaac Sharpless upon their chance meeting in Yorkshire in 1892. Listed at 5' 9 1/2" and 169 pounds as a senior, Lester was a star of Dr. James Babbitt's incipient athletic program. In addition to his varsity exploits, he played baseball, wrestled, won the college singles and doubles tournaments in tennis, and established school records in the hurdles, long jump and shot put. A guard and field goal kicker in football, as a senior he helped shut out Swarthmore, 24-0, snapping his team's five-game losing streak versus the Garnet in which it had been outscored, 196-18. In cricket he averaged 100.5 runs per innings as a freshman, the first of four years he won the Cope Prize Bat. In 1896, he scored 1,185 runs and took 40 wickets for averages of 79 and 23.2, respectively. He captained the college XI on its first overseas tour that year, and averaged over 84 runs including 105 against the MCC on his first appearance at Lord's. Lester was the top batsman of a local all-star tour of England in 1897, scoring the Gentlemen of Philadelphia's highest totals in their wins at Sussex and Warwickshire. From 1897-1908, he played in 53 matches for the GOP and captained two English tours plus all international home matches. His top "first class" performance was 126 not out, then 64 in two innings at Leicestershire in 1903. Before his death in 1969, the pavilion at Cope Field was renamed in Lester's honor. Earlier, as author of the 1951 book, "A Century of Philadelphia Cricket," he had proposed the library annex that was eventually dedicated in honor of his fellow Haverford cricketing great, C. Christopher Morris 1904.

E. Hambleton "Ham" Welbourn, Jr. Class of 1938 - Soccer and Baseball

In an era when soccer and baseball teams rarely played more than 10 games in a season, Ham Welbourn starred on the mound as a sophomore, winning four of his team's five 1936 victories against St. John's (Md.), Stevens Tech, Guilford and Swarthmore. He limited both the Johnnie and Garnet nines to a team-low two runs in those season-opening and seasonfinale wins. Pitching nearly half his team's innings in the field, he sported a 7-2 record over the next two regular seasons, with wins over Johns Hopkins and Swarthmore as a junior, and Lehigh as a senior and captain. He was the winning pitcher in 11 of the Fords' 15 wins during his three years as a baseball letterman. In his soccer career, Welbourn and his teammates were undefeated against Lehigh and notched winning marks against Princeton, Navy and Cornell. As a sophomore in 1935, he scored against Navy and Penn as the team struggled under first-year head coach Jim Gentle. Welbourn's lone goal in 1936 came in the season-finale versus Cornell, but the Fords counted Princeton (4-2), Lehigh (6-0) and the Big Red (2-1) among their four wins that season. He scored three of his five goals as a senior in consecutive wins over Ursinus (6-0), Lafayette (6- 0) and Lehigh (6-1). The team, captained by Welbourn's classmate and All-America selection Hubert R. Taylor, went 7-2 against college teams, including wins over current big-league foes Navy (2-0), Penn (2-1) and Cornell (3-0). The victory over Penn was the first for Haverford since a 4-1 victory in 1928.

James R. Grosholz Class of 1949 - Cross Country and Track & Field

Jim Grosholz showed promise in his initial year at Haverford with a 10th place finish in the 1942 IC4A freshman cross country run. His academic and athletic career interrupted by World War II, he lowered the college records in the mile and half-mile upon his return to college as a 22-year-old sophomore, new husband and father. After overcoming an Achilles tendon injury, he didn't win the 1947 Middle Atlantic Conference cross country championship "mainly because of straying off the course," according to his legendary coach, Alfred W. "Pop" Haddleton. Grosholz avenged his missteps by winning the MAC harrier title in 1948, then recorded the year's fastest intercollegiate 1,000-yard run time at the Boston AA Indoor Meet. Outdoors, he tied and later lowered to 49.7 seconds the HC-record in the quarter-mile held by Walter Palmer since 1910. Grosholz (1:53.3) held off Michigan State's Jack Dianetti at the wire to win the IC4A 880 at Randall's Island in New York City. Grosholz saved his best for last, however, winning his preliminary 880 heat (1:54) in the all-divisions NCAA Track & Field Championships on June 17, 1949, at the Los Angeles Coliseum. He placed fifth in 1:51.2 in the 880 final behind Olympic champion Mal Whitfield (Ohio State) and fellow Olympian Herb Barten (Michigan) the next day to come within three seconds of the then-world record. Over the last 60 years, Haverford's only better times in the half-mile's metric-equivalent, the 800 meters, have been recorded by NCAA Division III champions Kevin Foley '83 (1:49.9) and Karl Paranya '97 (1:48.26).

Philip "Phil" D'Arrigo Class of 1956 - Football, Basketball and Tennis

Phil D'Arrigo lettered in football his first three years at Haverford, scoring two touchdowns in 1952 and another in 1954. Emerging as a basketball star, he set a Haverford single-game record with 41 points against Drew early in his junior season. With Alumni Field House still under construction, and the Fords playing their final season in the old Gymnasium (now known as Ryan Gym), then-senior and team captain D'Arrigo reset the standard to 48 points in a 132-91 win over Pennsylvania Military College (now Widener U.) on Feb. 15, 1956. Three nights later, he then upped his game-mark to 52 points in a 115-89 win over the University of Delaware. D'Arrigo's 100 points in the two games combined, and his team's 247 points, are likely to stand as Haverford consecutive-game records for many years to come. His 21-of-37 shooting from the floor against the Blue Hens, meanwhile, and his 18- of-25 free throw shooting versus the Cadets, remain the most highest-ever totals at Haverford in those categories, as does his 27.8 points per game season scoring average. D'Arrigo's 1,300 career points, the college record upon his graduation, still ranks sixth all-time, and his career scoring average of 23.2 is second only to the 23.4 average of Dick Voith '77. A three-year tennis letterman, D'Arrigo had a 9-2 singles record for the 9-3 Fords in 1954, then won the Virginia Cup as tennis' top player despite a 7-8 record in 1955. The team, captained by his junior classmate Geoff Steere, won 11 matches, and lost four. Reversing their 8-1 loss to Swarthmore in 1955, the Fords capped a 12-match winning streak following an opening loss at the University of Virginia with a 5-4 win over their Quaker archrival. D'Arrigo went 7-1 in singles as a senior, with his captain Steere and Middle Atlantic Conference singles champion Bob Pratt '58 having undefeated records on the season.

Lydia A. Martin Class of 1986 - Field Hockey and Lacrosse

The college's first female All-America selection, Lydia Martin was lacrosse's Most Valuable Player all four years she played and Haverford's first female Varsity Cup winner (recognized as the sole outstanding athlete in her class – regardless of gender). She recorded 19 goals, 13 assists and 186 ground balls in lacrosse, and was the team's leading scorer as a freshman. A team captain and Philadelphia Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women all-star each of her last three lacrosse seasons, she was all-Middle Atlantic Conference, all-region and first team Brine and United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-America as a senior. Playing defensive wing, she led the Fords to an undefeated regular season, MAC and PAIAW championships, and the NCAA Division III tournament in 1986. First-year head coach Deb Gallagher's team was in the Brine Division III Top 10 the entire season, and was ranked fifth in the final poll. Martin was field hockey's MVP and a repeat PAIAW all-star in 1984 for posting eight defensive saves and one assist on coach Penny Hinckley's PAIAW Division III championship team. The 18th-ranked Fords defeated the University of Maryland-Baltimore County in the ECAC Division III first round before falling in the Mid-Atlantic championship game at the University of Rochester. She had scored a goal with three assists and four defensive saves on field hockey's nationally ranked ECAC tournament team that went 11-2 in 1983.