“But there was a wink in his eye,” Bertagna said.
Later, Bertagna knew Cloney through the Varsity Club’s Hall of Fame Committee. Cloney continued coming to the meetings until two months before his death.
Bertagna recalled how Cloney was able to keep a level tone despite the heated nature of the conversations over whom to honor.
“He was a walking historical factbook of Harvard athletics,” said Bob A. Glatz ’88.
A funeral mass was held Monday at Holy Family church in Duxbury. Cloney is survived by his wife Arline and two children.
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—Staff writer Andrew C. Campbell can be reached at acampbel@fas.harvard.edu.