While a student-athlete at Warren High School, Lester Burdge was a member of three championship teams: the 1933 Class B football champions; the undefeated 1935 Class C football titlists; and the Class C baseball championship squad that reached the 1936 state finals before losing to Cranston.  He earned All Class C honors in the latter two years.  (All three of these championship squads were coached by fellow Hall of Famer Jim McGeough.)

During the 1934 football season, Les threw a thirty-two yard touchdown pass to Donat Brochu in the Redskins’ 6-0 defeat of Barrington, while the following year his touchdown run helped shut out Colt Memorial, 19-0.

In college he played center for the Providence College football team and caught for the Friars’ baseball nine.

Les wore “the tools of ignorance” for Warren in the Warren/Bristol Little World Series both before and after World War Two, helping the Townies win two and tie one of five series.  He batted three for five in Warren’s only 1940 victory.  And he was the captain of the Standard Pharmacy nine that just missed capturing the Providence Amateur League title in 1949.

He was a player-coach for the Warren Narries 1940 football eleven and suited up for the 1942 Dairy Bar semi-pro basketball five.

Off the field Les served as a Little League baseball umpire, starting in the inaugural year of 1952; served as treasurer of the St. Mary’s Golf League;  captained his team in the Knights of Columbus bowling league; and served as president of the Warren Alumni and Booster Club for four years in the nineteen sixties.

In 1969 the Warren High School Athletic Department honored him for his service to both the department and the Alumni and Booster Club.

Picture from Hall of Fame Archives