{"id":2533,"date":"2004-09-21T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2533"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:10","slug":"bates-is-their-hallmark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/summer04\/departments\/sports-notes\/bates-is-their-hallmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Is Their Hallmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/Summer04\/hatch.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Hatch in 1977.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sport legends induced into the world of fame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By H. Jay Burns<\/p>\n<p>Two sports legends whose Bates careers overlapped were recently\u00a0inducted into local halls of fame. Bob Hatch, longtime Bates football\u00a0coach and athletic director, joined the Maine Sports Hall of\u00a0Fame in June.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Harkins \u201953, who played football and baseball\u00a0for Lewiston High School and at Bates,\u00a0entered the Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall\u00a0of Fame in April.\u00a0As Harkins looked on, Hatch spoke\u00a0at his former Bates quarterback\u2019s induction\u00a0ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I talked to some of his former\u00a0teammates before coming here tonight,&#8221;\u00a0Hatch was quoted in a <em>Sun Journal <\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 124px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/Summer04\/harkins-01.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Harkins.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>story.\u00a0&#8220;I asked them to describe him, and the words that came out most\u00a0often were modest, intense, intelligent, loyal, tough, and a true\u00a0friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Football coach from 1952 to 1972,\u00a0Hatch became Bates athletic director in\u00a01974, right away facing the challenges\u00a0of Title IX. &#8220;The steps that women have\u00a0made in just the 25 to 30 years since\u00a0then have been amazing,&#8221; Hatch told\u00a0the <em>Sun Journal. <\/em>&#8220;That changed everything\u00a0at the time, too, from recruiting to the physical layout of a\u00a0campus. Everything was really set up for men, even though we were\u00a0a co-ed campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport legends induced into the world of fame By H. Jay Burns&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2529,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2533\/revisions\/13729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}