For more than four decades, Father George Kehoe was in the mainstream of sport in Nova Scotia, earning himself distinction as a player, coach, and administrator.

At Sydney Academy, Kehoe became prominent in rugby, basketball, and hockey. In the fall of 1948, he arrived at St. Francis Xavier University where he soon won recognition as a member of the varsity basketball, rugby, and hockey teams.

Although he played only one year of basketball, it was a memorable one in which St. F. X. won the Maritime Intercollegiate and Canadian Intermediate championships. Kehoe’s natural skills, as well as his versatility, were amply demonstrated in rugby where he was an important factor in the success of St. F. X. teams from 1948 to 1951, capturing intercollegiate and senior titles.

Father Kehoe reserved some of his best talents for hockey as a stalwart defenseman on X-Men teams of exceptional quality, winning Maritime Intercollegiate, and Maritime Senior titles. On his return to St. F. X., he served as hockey coach for a ten-year period and, in 1967, he was named Director of Athletics.

Kehoe had an enormous influence across the entire Maritime intercollegiate scene where he helped bring sport to the high level it now occupies. He has demonstrated wise counsel as the former vice-president of the CIAU and president of the AUAA.