Late Barrington resident Buster Clegg will be inducted into the RI Hockey Hall of Fame posthumously.

Clegg, who helped co-found both the East Providence and Barrington youth hockey organizations, will be a member of the Class of 2025, which also includes Bill Army, Ross Brooks, Bob O’Connor and Tom Woodcock. It is the Hall’s eighth class of inductees. A special enshrinement celebration and dinner is scheduled for Aug. 21 at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet in Cranston.

An All-State defenseman at Burrillville High School, Clegg was voted team captain at the University of New Hampshire. After college, he became publicity director and then general manager of the AHL’s RI Reds. He later helped co-found both the East Providence and Barrington youth hockey organizations and, in 2000, he founded the RI Reds Heritage Society. In 2023, he was awarded the RI Hockey Hall of Fame’s prestigious Malcolm Greene Chace Trophy for “Lifetime Contributions of a Rhode Islander to the game of Hockey.”

Buster was also a member of the founding board of directors of the Rhode Island Hockey Hall of Fame. 

The founding chair of the Hall of Fame, Vin Cimini noted that the five new inductees-elect are “among the most accomplished hockey figures our state has produced. Each has distinguished himself as a player and then gave back to the game in an important leadership capacity that has brought great honor to themselves, their teams, their communities, and our state.”

This is the eighth class of inductees since the Hall of Fame’s charter class of 2018. The Class of 2025 was elected during thorough review and anonymous balloting by the Hall of Fame’s nine-member selection committee. The selection process includes a public nomination feature that provides community participation.

Clegg passed away in 2024.