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Inspiring leadership may come from offensive threats, great defenders, great hearts, or on rare occasions from someone who embodies all three. George Hayward proved himself a winner by combining great athletic skills with inspiring leadership even when he played only twice for a winning team during his Drew career. Hayward received the inspirational Leader Award as a junior for his contributions to the basketball team and was team captain as a senior for a squad that won twice in 20 games.

He averaged 10.3 ppg. that season and scored 601 career points (8.8 ppg.) in 68 games. Hayward's will to win -- and his speed -- were more apparent in baseball, where he started every game for four years and never hit less than .327 in any season. As a freshman he managed two home runs and a triple in a memorable game against Rutgers-Newark, and as a sophomore he stole 18 bases in the 12-game season.

For his career he batted .330. A Morris and Somerset League all-star, Hayward went on to summer tryouts with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1958. This 1960 baseball captain even added one season with the fledgling soccer program, and captured the College's 1959 Albert Ben Wegener Award. Also a strong student, Hayward won the Ciba Award in botany at graduation and went on to a graduate teaching fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a master's degree and was elected to Sigma Xi, the national science research honor society.