David Bosworth, Jr.
Graduating class: 1931
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2010
Hall of Fame Category: Athlete
David played football, baseball, basketball and ran track in his freshman year, settled into football and track in his sophomore and junior years, and added baseball again in his senior year. Football was his best sport and as a senior, he was selected as the left halfback on the All-Bristol County Team in 1930. He led all of Bristol County in touchdowns with 13 while helping Fairhaven craft a record of 8-1, the lone loss coming to a strong Boston College High School team, 26-9.
Bosworth was a workhorse running back on the 1930 team that stunned a heavily-favored New Bedford High team, 18-6 before a crowd of 6,000. The win was called “one of the biggest in school history.”
The Fairhaven Star newspaper noted in its reporting of Fairhaven’s 31-6 win over DeLaSalle Academy of Rhode Island: “Red Bosworth, veteran halfback, gained the most ground for yardage either off tackle or around the ends. On a number of occasions he out-sprinted the opposing ends and halfbacks by sheer individual effort to make 10 to 15 yards and he also scored the first two Fairhaven touchdowns.”
In being selected to the All-County team, the New Bedford Times write-up said, (lining up) “beside (quarterback) Steminski is placed Coach Wells’ red-headed blue streak, Dave Bosworth. The fact that he scored 13 touchdowns to lead the county in scoring alone would make him a good choice for the mythical eleven but he has other qualifications in that he is an excellent thrower of the short, deceptive variety of forward passes. As a hip-shaker, Red is in a class by himself."