ULDERIC “SHEIK” DALLAIRE (Athlete, Class of 2000, Posthumous

A member of Warren High School’s 1929 Class B Basketball Champions, Sheik Dallaire was named All State in basketball and All Class in baseball and football during his high school career.

An All Class B catcher for Warren High in his freshman year of 1928, Sheik hit .586 for Warren Post’s American Legion Baseball 1929 Division Two Champions and State Runner-Up nine.

As noted above, he was a member of the school’s Class B Basketball title team of 1929.  This team consisted of only seven players and outscored neighboring Barrington and Colt Memorial by a total of sixty-eight points.  In the fall of that year he was named the All Class B quarterback after his touchdown helped shut out Barrington.

In 1930 he scored one hundred and thirty-four points for a basketball team that lost a chance at a repeat title in a one-point loss to Burrillville.  He was named All Class B and All State.  That fall “the Phantom Red Grange of Warren High” again was a thorn in the side of Barrington as he caught a seventy-five yard touchdown pass (the game’s only score) from Milt Johnson.  Once again he was given All Class B honors, this time as a halfback.

Unfortunately an infected foot hampered his efforts in his senior year winter and spring.  He played for the Warren Basketball Townies between 1932 and 1934 and was a member of the 1934 Warren Twilight League Champions Centrals and Massasoits.

In 1936 the Warren and Barrington Gazette put together a list of Warren High School Football All Stars from 1929 to 1936.  Along with fellow Hall of Fame member Duke Abbruzzi, Sheik was named one of the team’s halfbacks.

Picture from Hall of Fame archives