Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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TooTball Team TooTball revengel revenge and a grand exiT Trom The lincoln scene. These were The aims oT The seniors who sparked The I957 lincoln TooTball Team To an unoTTicial ciTy championship by deTeaTing brooklyn Tech by a score oT 33 To O in The winTer's TirsT snowsTorm aT lincoln Tield. The seniors on The Team are only Too eager To heap all The crediT and honor upon The shoulders oT coach-oT-The-year mr. vin gargano. seldom in The hisTory oT lincoln sporT has a Team menTor combined such depfh oT skill and experience wiTh The amazingly rare giTT oT being able To inspire his Team To TeaTs oT superhuman sTrengTh and endurance. here we Tind no dearTh oT greaT TalenT To speak oT. capTains iay goldberg and phil sTeinberg grew up wiTh The Team, suiclered Through The besT-To-be- TorgoTTen I956 season: and Then, wiTh The cry remember I956 as Their waTchword, sparked The gridders To an unblemished 7-O-O record. since iT is impossible To menTion The names oT all The graduaTing grid sTars, we are relucTanT To name any. however, leT iT suTlice To say ThaT such backTield greaTs as goldberg and sTeinberg musT share The TooTball glory wiTh such line sTalwarTs as carmine parisi and al elkin. ' Theinames and picTures oT The oTher members oT The graduaTing TooTball Team appear on anoTher page OT This book. They made up a Team which dis- Tinguished iTselT as much by iTs spiriT and loyalTy as iT did by iTs unsurpassable record.

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i baskeTball our Tour years aT lincoln have seen Tour Top-noTch baskeTball Teams repre- senT us. Three OT These have gained play-OTT berThs in The ciTy championships. in our Treshman year I954-I955 we saw The baskeTball Team, under mr. b. kirsner's TuTelage, bring home TirsT place in brooklyn division wiTh a Tine I4-4 record. led by capTains sTockTedder, villamina and lassman, The l955-l956 ediTion wound up iTs season wiTh a I3-6 mark and a Third place in iTs divisions. in our junior year I956-T957 a new coach, mr. william maccaTTrey and capTain mark reiner led The hoopsTers To a second place Tinish. reiner's back- courT maTe was danny liebowiTz. chuck TeinsTein, lou desillas and anTon muehl- bauer operaTed up TronT. in The play-oTTs an inspired porT richmond upseT The Tavored lincoln Tive 5l-50. as seniors we saw our cagers run up a Thrilling I3-7 record. in The backcourT, along wiTh marTy schulTz, was capTain and all-ciTy sTar, anTon muehlbauer. aT The Torwards were dave sinclair and ieTT kirsch. dav and ieTT coupled wiTh sTu singer aT cenTer provided lincoln wiTh a very Tormidable Torward wall. milT klein, anoTher senior, was singer's replacemenT and probably would have sTarTed on a weaker Team. lincoln sTarTed The season wiTh a win over erasmus, 70-68. The Team Then proceeded To rip Through laTayeTTe, TorT hamilTon, new uTrechT, and madison, losing only To manual. some Tough breaks in The Tinal porTion oT The season pushed lincoln down inTo a Three-way Tie Tor second. lincoln's I2 poinT vicTory over uTrechT puT Them in madison square garden: They were going againsT clinTon. iT was a rough game Tor The cagers who couldn'T come up wiTh Tor. clinTon won, 65-54. This was a good year Tor The baske- Teers. coach mccaTTrey made Them inTo a uniTed Team, a Team To which every game was a vicTory, win or lose. any oT The scoring They were known baske+balI Team

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baseball Team Track doc schecTer, coach OT The Track Team, has The uncanny abiliTy OT spOT- Ting pOTenTial in spindle legged Tresh men and developing Them inTo hardy, award-winning Trackmen. among The seniors doc has raised are capTain larry bussey, co-capTain lenny lclepaclc, bob hOlTzman, sTan saTOwiTz, ernie alleva, herb TersTandig and ciTy champ pole-vaulTer herman carr. highlighTs OT The currenT campaign were numerous, uppermosT being The 3:29.6 mile relay, which was Turned in aT The iona-queens meeT. This was The besT Time Tor a mile relay in The pasT TiTTeen years OT lincoln hisTOry. iT was run by lclepaclc, bussey, saTo- wiTz, and a promising junior, ernie zeh. anoTher memorable momenT was The bishop loughlin meeT OT lasT de- cember in which lincoln's half mile relay Team finished Third in a Tield OT l4O. also broughT To mind is The Tine perTOrmance OT herman carr in Tinish- ing in Third place among all easTern pole-vaulTers. 26 Track Team basebaH during The pasT Two years The lin- coln baseball Team has had an OTT- and-on success. in l956 The nine cap- Tured a ciTy crown To celebraTe mr. abe plauT's Tinal season as coach. l957 was a rebuilding year. The Team had iusT secured a new coach in The person OT physics Teacher mr. herb isaacson. TurThermore, iT had been hard hiT by l956 graduaTion. no ciTy championship was won in l957. neiTher was The Team disgraced. They Tinished OTT wiTh a respecTable record and aT The same Time laid The ToundaTiOn Tor a powerTul l958 squad. wiTh The advenT OT The presenT sea- son The lincoln baseball Team once again has come inTo iTs own. mr, isaacson had no Trouble insTilling con- Tidence inTo his boys. now, wiTh a year's experience behind him he has become, according To The players, The greaTesT coach in The ciTy. OT course, spiriT and a TirsT-raTe coach are noT The only asseTs which our baseball Team can boasT OT. as Tar as acTual baseball TalenT is con- cerned They are also preTTy well seT. all OT The sTarTing nine, and more, are deserving OT menTiOn here. how- ever, as we do nOT have The space To include all The names we will menTiOn only The Two capTains. ioe marcucci and richie malone-consider your- selves menTioned.