ITT Tell Us Your High School, Principal's Name, and Disciplinarian's Name
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I'm happy to hear Rich Luzzi went to Clemson instead of Wichita St...in the early sixties no one much cared or followed FB recruiting like we have since guys like me and Mel Kiper nerds realized how big it is. Your right..3-2..a soccer type score...greatest win in my memory for Belleville IIRC!?! I loved fall Saturday mornings as a kid..we'd hop the fence to get in the game during the national anthem. Would you believe Ironhead wanted to come to RU but Dick Anderson wouldn't take him!?! I remember the quote.."I'm not going to argue with a 17 yr old"!!Unreal....I guess you never missed a game being you went to number 5 school?
What are you talking about? That quote isn't from my earlier post.
Uncle Tony. He was a great RB at Newark West Side H.S back in the day.Tom Higgins ,current Coach's Dad was the HC at that time.Bob Sterling was the AD.For a period of time I used to get Trophies for their programs. Was reimbursed of course. Nice people.I wasn't a student there so the perspective would be different in a student's eyes.
An old friend of mine,gone now,Donato(Pete)Del Guercio was FB HC at Newark South Side when Lonnie Wright played against Belleville.Lonnie had a great day. He was IMO the greatest all time athlete to ever play in NJ.Could do anything at a superb level.Example:He was introduced to the 12lb shot put on a Friday night. The next day at Rutgers Stadium no less, he threw it 56'.He was 6'2" and about 210 at the time.I was there with Pete ,who was also the Track Coach.We dropped Lonnie off at the shot put area and an hour or so later when I went there to check on him ,I asked what he had done. I thought that he had said fifty six and I said wow ,Lonnie, 50 feet six inches .That's great! He politely said No Mr. W-------------,FIFTY SIX FEET. I nearly fell over.That was the winning throw.Over on the side I could see many of the "whales" Huge guys,many of whom were FB linemen, looking over at Lonnie.They knew who he was and were really shaking their heads in apparent disbelief.That's only one example of his abilities.He played Hoops in College but was drafted as a DB in the NFL. Just a great athlete and person.Lonnie died a number of years ago.
Yes I was only 12 years old or so IIRC but I never forgot what I saw him do against a very tough Belleville squad...I think we lost twenty to zip? Amazing athlete who alone made the difference. Usually we breezed by the city HS teams but not that day. I still don't think he gets the credit due to him! I'm pretty sure he was 1st team all state though and had to be the number 1 athlete in NJ that year. Was South Side in the top 5 statewide that year? Rare occurence in FB for any inner city school non Catholic outside of hoops though undoubtedly some freakish athletes like Kemoko Turay of Barringer play there...Del Guercio? Lots of them in Belleville..I remember a Pete and Ted IIRC? Good athletes ...also remember a guy named Bill Rush played hoops..6'5" if i remember right and Bobby Beyers...not to forget another local kid...6'7" Abdel Anderson..few yrs younger than me.
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South River High School.
Principal Al Losiewicz was a legend who would sing the Victory song (for football victories) on the P.A. on Monday mornings. He also was a great story teller. He was as old school as it gets.
Vice principal Mr. Pope took over when he retired my Junior year.
Principal Al Losiewicz was a legend who would sing the Victory song (for football victories) on the P.A. on Monday mornings. He also was a great story teller. He was as old school as it gets.
Vice principal Mr. Pope took over when he retired my Junior year.
Lonnie was great but Milt Campbell would get my vote as the greatest NJ HS athlete. All-state in three sports and eventually won a silver medal in the Olympics (Decathlon, figures being such a great athlete)
Statute of limitations has passed. No worries. I'll just catch you in "a mood" at a tailgate, and beans will be spilled.
St. Peter's Prep
Disciplinarian was Mr. Dandorph. Too many stories to recount. He was army Special Forces in Viet Nam. I still use multiple Danorph-isms till this day.
"Guys, you gotta pay the price. You can pay it now, or you can pay it later...but you will pay it."
The Monday after the State Championship football game.
Mr. Dandorph we won the states Saturday...how about no homework?
"You won the states? But you lost to Middletown South in September. Get back to me when you go undefeated"
LIKE. IT. WAS. YESTERDAY.
Disciplinarian was Mr. Dandorph. Too many stories to recount. He was army Special Forces in Viet Nam. I still use multiple Danorph-isms till this day.
"Guys, you gotta pay the price. You can pay it now, or you can pay it later...but you will pay it."
The Monday after the State Championship football game.
Mr. Dandorph we won the states Saturday...how about no homework?
"You won the states? But you lost to Middletown South in September. Get back to me when you go undefeated"
LIKE. IT. WAS. YESTERDAY.
It won't be difficult. Consider two facts:
He can't handle brown liquor.
He talks in his sleep.
Very few have complied so far, so I'm gonna enlist the help of my colleague in the cubicle next to mine. I mean, not cubicle, heck, there aren't even any colleagues OR cubicles next to me in the data collection--err, I mean, the spa--that I work at part time just to pass the time away and not to collect data of any sort. So nobody has complied, which makes it difficult to do my spa work.
