Maurice Villeneuve
Inducted October 29, 1988

Maurice "Frenchy" Villeneuve was dubbed by Murray Armstrong, a former Minnesota hockey coach as "one of the best college hockey players I have seen." That was in 1940 and those words still hold true in 1988.

Villeneuve captained the 1940 Huskies hockey team, playing center for coach Ed Maki. He not only gianed what was then called the College Newsstand Award, significant of the outstanding player in the annual Winer Carnival series, but he was also named a first team Collegiate All-Star selection. Another familiar name joining Villeneuve on that first team was Minnesota's John Mariucci.

On the ice Villeneuve was described as one who plays the type of game everyone likes to watch -- fast skating, clever stickhandling, and numerous spills.

But it was not just hockey that Villeneuve participated in while at MTU. He was a member of the Varsity Club for three years, serving as vice president his sophomore year. In addition, "Frenchy" also helped coach youth at the local level.

Villeneuve spent most of his professional life in Great Falls, Montana, working 35 years for Anaconda Company as a metallurgical engineer. He is now retired and still, as he puts it, "keeping a sharp eye for hockey prosepects for Michigan Tech."