Lorin F. Deland

Biography

Lorin F. Deland combined literary talent with a strong advocacy for athletic pursuit, writing essays, plays, and manuals that supported both creative expression and physical vigor. His experiments with football strategy and physical training, especially in connection with the Harvard squad, brought fresh thinking to the sport's early years.

Deland also championed cultural institutions, founding clubs and programs that balanced mind and body, and the community remembers him at Forest Hills Cemetery as a quiet architect of modern leisure.