Sandy Somerville

Sandy Somerville was member of Varsity Blues championship teams in three sports: Football(1921), Hockey(1921-22) and Golf(1924). He played on the Blues for three seasons in both Football(1921, 1922, 1924) and Hockey(1921-2, 1922-3, 1923-4).
Somerville is best known as one of Canada's greatest golfers, as he won six Canadian amateur titles between 1926 and 1939, and in 1932 he was the first Canadian to win the U.S. Amateur title. He won two Canadian Seniors titles and was President of the Royal Canadian Golf Association in 1957. He was selected the 1932 Canadian Press Athlete of the Year and in 195O was named the CP Golfer of the Half-Century. He also one of Canada's top cricket players and set the highest score in school cricket of 212
runs, not out.

Somerville is a member of the RCGA Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of
Fame. A retired life insurance executive, he lived in his hometown of London, Ontario.

Born London, Ontario 19O3
Died summer 1991

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