Varsity Club Hall of Fame Induction Class of 1987, David R. Poile

Philip R. McCabe David R. Poile Philip R. McCabe has been elected to the Hall of Fame for his David R. Poile has been elected to the Hall of Fame for his accomplishments ccomplishments in the sport of football and his contributions to the in the sport of ice hockey. Jniversity as an administrator. Poile was a high-scoring centerman for Jimmy Bell's Huskies of the late McCabe, Class of 1963, captained the 1961 Husky grid squad as an sixties and early seventies. He was a multiple All New England and All East >ffensive and defensive tackle. As Dean of Admissions for the past 11 years, selection and finished his Northeastern hockey career as the University's ticCabe has been instrumental in shaping a steady course for the world's second all-time leading goal scorer. :ader in Co-operative Education. After graduating in 1971 with a degree in Business Administration, Poile A native Bostonian, McCabe emerged from an extremely athletic family to :xcel in his own right as a .football, baseball, and track letter-winner at Boston went on to a meteoric professional career in Sports Administration. For the lnglish. He was one of the City's outstanding scholastic linemen under the past five years he has been Vice President/General Manager of the listinguished tutelage of Coach Bill Stewart. Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. Northeastern loomed large and near at hand for the Roslindale product, but As a college player, Poile was unmistakably a goal scorer in the division 1 o did the mandatory draft in the post-Korean War days. After graduating ranks. He wound up with a University-record 11 career hat tricks from 1967 rom English in the spring of 1954, McCabe got ready for a year at Newman through 1970, and 82 goals in just three varsity seasons. 'rep in Cambridge prior to a government crewcut in 1955. As a precocious NHL Executive in Washington, Poile engineered one of the McCabe spent the next three years just above the 38th parallel in Seoul, ballyhooed hockey trades of the decade. In a deal with Montreal, Poile Corea with the 24th Infantry Division. Like many of his high school :lassmates, a college career would have to wait. swapped Ryan Walter and Rick Green for defenseman Rod Langway and McCabe enrolled at Northeastern as a cosmopolitan freshman in the Brian Engblom, along with forwards Craig Laughlin and Doug Jarvis. tutumn of 1958, and along with classes began practicing what would become Twice, Poile was named National Hockey League Executive of theYear , in :ommonplace for he and his football contemporaries: 50 minutes of football 1982-83, and in 1984-85. Jer game on defense, offense and special teams. His ability to deposit the puck behind goaltenders distinguished Poile as an Husky mentor Joe Zabilski would use McCabe at every position in the athlete at Northeastern, where he captained the hockey team as a senior in renches except center, where the Red and black had the services of All New 1970. As a senior, Poile tallied 37 times in 23 games to produce the England snapper Dick McPherson. At 6'1, 205 pounds, McCabe showcased University's second-leading season goal total and per game goal average lis athleticism at tackle, middle guard, end and even linebacker on defense, md at tackle and guard on offense. (1.63). Wanting for the services of the typical battering ram Zabilski fullback, the Poile endured a bout with mononucleosis at the start of his first varsity fiuskies of McCabe and company managed to post some impressive victories season as a sophomore in 1966-67 to record an aggregate of 14-13-27 in 18 :0 1961, when the Huskies went 4-4-0. The Huskies destroyed Rhode Island contests. From then on, he accepted the role as the Huskies offensive hub with lnd Norwich in the openers, and also handled western Massachusetts arch relish, potting 31 and 37 goals the next two campaigns. rivals Springfield and American International. Poile was the Team Most Valuable Player in two of his three varsity Playing hurt but effectively much of his senior season, McCabe was seasons, and won the prestigious Paul Hines Award for the Most Improved rewarded for his efforts with the prestigious Outstanding Senior Award in Player in New England as voted by the Hockey Writers Association in 1961. The same players who were understudies to McCabe on Husky squads 1967-68. of 1960 and '61, would be the interior line nucleus to the heralded undefeated Joe Zabilski squad of 1963. Poile, who grew up in California as a scholastic tennis player in search of An outstanding academic record and co-op position in the guidance offices ice, would skate three varsity seasons for Bell and Company and graduate as at Northeastern prepared him for a career he had chosen by his junior year on the second leading goal scorer (82) and fourth-leading point man (118). Huntington Avenue. Professionally, McCabe would concentrate on Education • Professionally, he launched his hockey management career with the Atlanta after graduating with his degree in Psychology in 1963. Flames, where he was Assistant General Manager for six years before taking McCabe taught and coached three sports at Milton High School from over with the Capitals. 1963-67 while earning his M.Ed at Northeastern before being enticed back to His father, Norman "Bud" Poile, was a former player and General Manager Northeastern by current Executive Vice President Jack Curry. of both the Philadelphia Flyers and Vancover Canucks. At Northeastern McCabe charted an inexorable path up the administrative ladder, while maintaining strong ties and support to the Northeastern athletic Poile and his wife Elizabeth make their year-round home in Maryland with program. He rose from Assistant to Associate Director of Admissions to their children Brian and Lauren. · Director to Admissions in 1976. His total immersion in Northeastern athletics led to his election as Varsity Club President in 1973 and he still serves as an officer on the Executive Board of the University's primary athletic support group. He is also the founder and director of perhaps the Varsity Club's single most popular event, the annual Varsity Club Golf tournament. Phil and his wife, the former Beth Bangs of Machias, Maine, make their home in Pembroke. They have raised four children: Cathy Lynn, Beth Anne, Debra Lea, and Philip, Jr. .

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