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In Memoriam: Squash Champion and Cartoonist Germain Glidden
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Feb 26, 1999, By SquashTalk Staff © 2004SquashTalk
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| Photo by Bachrach for Life Magazine |
Germain Green Glidden died February 9th in Norwalk, CT USA. He was 85 years old. Mr. Glidden was an enthusiastic squash player for much of his life; initially he played squash at Harvard (class of '36) and was up to the present a member of the Friends of Harvard Tennis and Squash. He was an amateur squash champion, winning the Intercollegiate Squash crown in both 1935 and 1936; and the US National Amateur crown three times, in 1936, 1937, and 1938, after which he retired undefeated. Later, he won the U.S. amateur veterans titles in 1953, 56, and 57, again retiring undefeated.
Germain Glidden often attributed much of his success in life to the lessons he learned from the game of squash. However, he certainly gave much more back to the game of squash than he ever received himself! Mr. Glidden is probably best known to squash players throughout the USA and in fact worldwide, because of his wonderful, insightful, and distinctive squash cartoons that grace the walls of squash clubs everywhere. Mr. Glidden was the originator of the famous squash cartoon "Let Please" which has been copied many times by other cartoonists.
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| Germain Glidden Self Portrait © 2004 Christine Glidden |
In addition to his squash playing and squash artwork, Germain Glidden founded the National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS) which is now housed at University Place at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (I.U.P.U.I.), Indianapolis, Indiana. He also founded a much less-known entity,known as the "300 Club", an informal club relating to the love of baseball and baseball statistics.
Beyond squash caricatures, Glidden was accomplished as an artist, having been commissioned for portraits of a number of sports figures as well as US President's Reagan and Bush. Mr. Glidden's love of squash and sense of humor about the game will live on in his squash art. The game of squash will miss a sportsman and pioneer.
[See also: "The Man Who Won the Squash Grand Slam, by Jim Zug"]
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