Bentley University

When Bentley College Athletic Director Al Shields first approached Lou Flumere about coaching the college's golf team, Flumere wasn't sure if he could handle kids anymore.
 
After much prodding. Lou finally to take the position on a two-week trial basis. The two weeks turned into two decades. and in May 1987, the  veteran coach was inducted in the college's  Athletic Hall of Fame.

Quite an accomplishment for man who nearly died after being stung by a mosquito on the Saturday before Mother's Day in 1961. "It carried encephalitis, which killed a lot of horses that year." Lou told the Milford Daily News in a 1981 interview. The Hopkinton resident was in a coma for a month and paralyzed for four years as doctors attempted to determine what the problem was.
 
Lou was no stranger to coaching when Shields contacted him in 1967, although he hadn't  done any since his illness. As a result, he didn't know if he could physically handle it, but eventually agreed to give it a shot.
 
Lou's tearns struggled during the early years, but he gradually built a team which would compile an overall record of 283-208-16 in his 20 years at the helm. Then in his seventies, he stepped down in the summer of 1996.
 
Under his guidance, Bentley dominated the Little Four Tournament, winning nine titles between  1973 and 1985, and finished in the ten at the  New Englands three-times.
 
Lou had his top team during the 1975-76 season when the Falcons won the ECAC Qualifying Tournament, edging Dartmouth by a stroke, and finished third in a 42-team field at the Fall New Englands. That same year, both John Janangelo and Jeff Tardif were selected to compete in the NCAA Division Il Golf Championships in Youngstown. Ohio.
 
Prior to his illness, Lou had been the head football coach at Marlboro High School during the late fifties. He had also coached football at Beverly, Milford, Framingham and Hopkinton High School, and had an undefeated AAU girl's basketball team in 1948.
 
Lou was a 1934 Northeastern University graduate, where he had majored in engineering and had participated in hockey, baseball and football.
 
His involvement in golf dated back a half-century to when he taught golf and operated a pitch-and-putt course and a driving range in the thirties.