For the love of the game

It’s a cool, late autumn afternoon in 1988 with the wind brisk and the skies threatening rain when a tall, white-haired woman struts across Memorial Field carrying a fold-up chair, a blanket, an umbrella and a reporter’s notebook. Players running through warm-up drills shout, “Hello, Peg!” and she smiles and waves as she makes her way to the sideline to set up her chair and get ready to cover the field hockey game that’s about to begin.

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Peg Thurler, who passed away July 19 at the age of 92, didn’t need Title IX to tell her that girls should have equal opportunity to play sports. Because for Peg, a four-sport high school athlete herself, it was all about the love of the game — a love, she believed, that all children should have the chance to experience. And so she was there at every game, rain or shine, taking notes for her sports articles — which graced the pages of the Citizen for over a decade — and cheering for her “girls” until she was well into her 80s.

Her byline has been missing  for several years now, but Peg Thurler’s contribution to the paper — and to girls’ sports in Canton — will not be forgotten.   – Beth Erickson

NOTE: Peg Thurler was also a member of the Canton Historical Society and a strong supporter of environmental and animal welfare causes.

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