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Rev. Canisius Connors

Rev. Canisius Connors, OFM

  • Class
  • Induction
    1987
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Basketball , Administrator
Over a 26-year span his interest in the St. Bonaventure University student-athletes set the standard for all who followed him.

Fr. Connors served as freshman basketball coach (1948-1949), director of athletics (1962-1966), and moderator of athletics (1966-1974). 

He entered the Franciscan Order in 1921, was professed as a friar in 1927 and was ordained a priest in 1933. He joined the St. Bonaventure faculty in 1938.

His tireless work and commitment to St. Bonaventure University and the department of athletics, place Fr. Connors among the legends of SBU.
 
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