The late Larry Elliott will be one of the inductees, along with former Nashua Athletic Director Al Harrington and the late former Nashua Parks-Recreation director Noel Trottier, into the Nashua Lions Club's Holman Stadium Sports Legends Hall of Fame on July 4. (Photo courtesy of Bishop Guertin High School)

NASHUA — The Nashua Lions Club this year is going behind the scenes for its annual choices to join the Holman Stadium Sports Legends of Fame.

Set to have their names on the plaque at the entrance to Holman Stadium in a ceremony on July 4 are the late Larry Elliott and Noel Trottier, as well as the retired former Nashua Athletic Director Al Harrington. All did the important work off the field to pave the way for student athletes to shine at the Stadium.

Elliott’s impact on Nashua sports and teams that played at Holman needs no introduction as he was called “the Father of BG Athletics”, a huge benefactor to the school who has an award, a sportsman’s dinner, and the school’s athletic fields named after him.

Not only that, he was a huge supporter of youth sports, especially local Pop Warner football and Little League baseball.

Harrington was the picture of stability for the Nashua athletic department that current AD Lisa Gingras is today. Harrington, hired in the late 1970s after serving as an assistant AD at what was then Bentley College (now Bentley University), served in the position until retiring in 2000. After Harrington retired, the position was held by five different people – one on an interim basis – before Gingras was hired in 2013 to begin a tenure that is closing in on 10 years.

He presided over one of the most glorious eras in Nashua athletics – the Nashua girls basketball dynasty orchestrated by the Panthers late coach, John Fagula. Harrington was also a teacher and coach at Fairgrounds Junior High.

Noel Trottier, who passed away at the age of 70 in 1994, was the longtime Parks-Recreation director in Nashua as well as a longtime sports official and also the public address announcer at Holman for Nashua and Bishop Guertin High School football. He became the city’s recreation director after a career in insurance.

The induction will be held at Holman on July 4, prior to the city’s annual fireworks celebration.