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He was considered a triple threat - running, passing and kicking. He was one of only two freshmen to make the 25-man roster and beat out two Virginia natives for the quarterback slot, even though he was among the smallest players on the team at 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 143 pounds.

Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary (HANDOUT) Later in high school Matsu won the national scholastic diving championship.Īrt Matsu poses for his 1926 junior class photo for the Colonial Echo yearbook. “Then when Arthur gets through doing all these things he goes home and cultivates his war garden. Purman said the 13-year old Matsu: “plays first base on a Boy Scout team, plays first base on an undefeated indoor baseball team, plays halfback on a high school football team, plays forward on an amateur basketball team, has pole vaulted 7 feet 4 ½ inches, more than a foot higher than any boy of his class, holds Cleveland junior record for the 100, 50 and 75 yard dashes, plays a fair game of tennis, is a fair broad jumper, a champion boy swimmer at Cleveland Y.M.C.A. On July 5, 1917, Purman said all-round “athlete de luxe” Jim Thorpe would have a tip of his hat “to this Japanese youth … who doesn’t balk at anything in the athletic line except auto racing and poker.” Prior to Tasker football at the school was, at best, mediocre.Īs a precursor to his collegiate athletic career, Matsu’s youthful athletic talent drew the attention of nationally syndicated sports columnist Paul Purman, whose words appeared in about 200 newspapers across the nation. Wilder Tasker as head football coach and director of athletics that W&M’s football team achieve successive winning seasons. In the mid-1920s football was still a young, brutal sport and required “manhood” to play it. It was, however, on the gridiron that Matsu made his enduring mark at W&M. In 1972 he was among the founding members of the Order of the White Jacket, those men and women who waited tables in the college dining halls as well as food establishments around town, like the Pocahontas Tea Room at College Corner. The Colonial Echo, the campus yearbook his senior year named him the “student who has done the most for the College.” Everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for purchase, use, or patronage without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical handicap, political affiliation, or any other non-merit factor of the purchaser, user, or patron.Also, Matsu was president of the Monogram (Varsity) Club his senior year and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership society of select men on campus.

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