For a hurler who lost his first four games, Hec McLeod of the Regina Nationals gave a pretty good impression of a staff ace. Especially in the playoffs.
After his slow start to the season, the Right-hander went on to compile an 8-1 record for the rest of the regular season then in the playoffs put on an iron man display of epic proportions.
The club played 24 post-season games. McLeod pitched in 22 of them, 18 as a starter, each one of them a complete game.
During the playoffs, he threw complete games on three consecutive days, then topped that performance by first hurling BOTH games of a playoff double-header BEFORE pitching on three consecutive days.
McLeod (later known as Norman W. McLeod), with degrees from the University of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the University of Michigan, went on to become a world-wide expert in asphalt pavement.
After senior positions with the Saskatchewan Department of Highways, Imperial Oil and the Canada Department of Transport, McLeod was recruited to join the staff at the University of Waterloo as a professor.
Author of dozens and dozens of technical papers and recipient of awards in both Canada and the United States, McLeod was a frequent visitor as a consultant in South America, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe.
A former colleague noted :
Of the many awards and honours received, only a framed newspaper clipping marking his selection as the most valuable athlete for Saskatchewan in 1933 claimed space on the office wall of this modest gentleman. (E.B. Wilkins)