Richard Roy
Year Inducted: 2005
Birthdate: September 18, 1935 -
Town/City: Berlin, NH
His hockey career began in grammar school where he starred on the Angel Guardian team and won two Parks and Recreation League titles in 1948 and 1949. Dick played defense on the Notre Dame’ varsity team during four seasons from 1949 through 1953. Notre Dame won four state championships during his tenure and Dick also participated in four New England High School Championship Tournaments held in Providence, RI.
From 1953 to 1967, Dick played fourteen consecutive years as a defenseman for the Berlin Maroons, he was a key defenseman and instrumental on the teams in 1954 and 1967, that won two New England Championships and two Senior Amateur Hockey Association’s United States National Championships.
After his playing career ended in 1967, Dick continued his involvement in ice hockey as a registered referee with the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association and the United States Amateur Hockey Association from 1967 to 1973. Dick refereed games throughout New England at the senior amateur, collegiate and high school levels.
In 2000 because of his playing abilities in High School Hockey, Dick received the honor of being given honorable mention on the All New Hampshire Millennium Team as a defenseman.