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Bane humbled by New England Intercollegiate Player of the Year honor | The Salem News

October 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | No comments

Bill Beaney could write a book about Harry Bane. The Middlebury College men’s golf coach calls the 22-year-old from Marblehead, Mass., ”one in a million.”

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Bane has accepted a number of tournament awards and has been cited many a time for overcoming adversity. He has been a profile in courage to all those acquainted with him and his esteemed golfing family for bouncing back from 11 cancer procedures on his left leg from ages 4 to 17.

However, no individual recognition in his young life could surpass the Guy Tedesco Award he received as New England Intercollegiate Player of the Year Sunday night at the Irish Village Restaurant in South Yarmouth.

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