Looks can be deceiving. And, when you look at the numbers compiled by Al Boucher in his high school coaching career you may have to look twice.

Unlike football and basketball, where wins and losses generally define a coach, only a segment of the sports world are probably awed by the numbers accrued by the Boucher-coached teams in the 1950s and 1960s. Track, cross country and gymnastics weren‘t nearly as popular as the ‘ball’ sports in those decades but to the followers of New Bedford High School, Boucher’s numbers meant everything back then.

Here are just a few of the highlights from the early 60s:

*Won numerous Greater Boston Interscholastic and/or St. John’s Relay Championships.

*Won the Class A Outdoor Track Championship outright in 1964 and were co-champions in 1965.

*Beat Newton in a dual meet, handing the perennial track power its first home loss in 20 years.

*Captured the New England Open Track Meet at the Boston Garden in 1964.

*Clinched the Class A Indoor Championship in 1966.

Over Boucher’s 12-year career in winter track, his teams lost one dual meet and, in cross country, his teams were Class A champions in 1958 and 1961; state champions in 1962 and 1963 and ran to a New England Championship in 1960.

Boucher tendered his resignation following the 1965 school year to accept the position of director of physical education at Old Rochester Regional High School the following year.