Robert M. 'Scotty' Whitelaw (1927 - April 2, 2016) was an American athlete, baseball and basketball coach and long serving Commissioner of the

Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from ...

. Born in

Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in ...

, he played football and other sports for

North Quincy High School North Quincy High School (NQHS) is a public secondary school located in the North Quincy neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12, and has an enrollment of over 1,200 students. It is one of tw ...

and

Springfield College Springfield College is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The institution's mission, called the Humanism, Humanics philosophy, calls for educating students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service ...

. At Springfield, Whitelaw played center field on the baseball team and was New England's

600 yards Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to . The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distan ...

champion for the track and field team. In addition to serving as the ECAC Commissioner from 1971 to 1989, he also was the executive director of the

National Invitation Tournament The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is an annual men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 2023, all rounds of the tournament are played at various sites across the country whi ...

and baseball coach, basketball coach and assistant athletic director for

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

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1927 births 2016 deaths College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Springfield Pride men's track and field athletes Eastern College Athletic Conference commissioners MIT Engineers baseball coaches MIT Engineers men's basketball coaches North Quincy High School alumni Sportspeople from Quincy, Massachusetts Springfield Pride baseball players Springfield Pride football players American male middle-distance runners {{US-baseball-bio-stub