BIRTHPLACE: Woburn, Mass.

BORN: April 1, 1926

TEAMS/ASSOCIATIONS: United States Olympic Team, Boston University, Senior Amateur Teams

Jack Garrity was an outstanding high school player who moved on to play both international and college hockey at the highest level.  After leading Medford, (Mass.) High School to a pair of state championships in 1943 and 1944, Garrity continued in Senior hockey after W.W.II service.  Coming off the roster of the Needham, (Mass.) Rockets, he was just one of three non-college players to make the 1948 United States Olympic Team, which narrowly missed the Bronze medal finishing with a 5-3 record. 

Garrity then enrolled at Boston University in 1949 and was quickly named Freshman Team captain. The following year he broke the then-existing NCAA single-season scoring record with 51 goals and 33 assists as  BU went all the way to the NCAA Finals before bowing to Colorado College.  In 1952 the co-captain led BU to another Final Four, but the team lost out in the semi-finals to Michigan. Garrity was named an All American and All NCAA Tournament Team selection in both 1951 and 1952. 

Garrity graduated in 1952 and played the following year with the senior Boston Olympics.  Over the next 13 years he played senior amateur hockey with various teams, most notably Brockton and Rockland, who both won National Senior AHAUS titles in 1959 and 1960 respectively.  During that period he began another hockey career as an official on the amateur, high school, and college levels.  He also got into coaching at the high school and senior amateur levels as well.