Belleville High School - Monad Yearbook (Belleville, NJ)

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A Newark News phoTographer cafches Richie VeiTh going beTween a pair of SeTon Hall players for a TwisTing lay-up and scoring Two poinTs in The quarfer- 'Final round game of The Essex CounTy Baskefball Tournament Belleville won 72-60. BASKETBALL . . . Coach Herman Ji'Hy Wische is shown working wiTh VincenT DenTe, The varsiTy manager of Belleville's Baskefball Team. Richie Hangge makes a fufile a+TempT To reTrieve a ball while a NEWARK NEWS phofographer Takes The picfure. Belleville l-ligh's i954-I'-755 baskeTball Team was one oT ouT- sTanding abiliTy. Three seniors and eighT iuniors Tormed The VarsiTy. Headed by CapTain Richie VeiTh, The high scorer, The Team leaves behind Them a proud record oT eighT wins and seven losses. Our Richie also has The honor oT making The all-Essex TirsT Team. Belleville enTered The Annual Essex CounTy TournamenT un- seeded Tor The TirsT Time in The TournamenT's nine-year hisTory: buT Belleville upseT lrvingTon Tech by one poinT in an exciTing game in which Frank Csaszar, in The remaining seconds oT The game wiTh The score Tied 55-55, scored a Toul shoT To win The game. ln The guarTer-Tinals The Cinderella Bellboys Trounced Tavored SeTon Hall 72-60. The Team was picked by many coaches To win The TournamenT aTTer This second upseT. The Blue and Gold faced WesT Side in The semi-Tinals: and aTTer Three overTime periods, a Tap-in goal by WesT Side gave The Rough Riders a 55-54 vicTory. Richie VeiTh piloTed The squad back Trom a seven-poinT deTiciT in The TourTh guarTer To Tie The score aT The end oT regulaTion Time. Tricky VeiTh Tied The score wiTh a drive-in baskeT wiTh only nine seconds leTT To play. ln The over- Time, neiTher Team scored in The TirsT Two overTimes, buT VeiTh hiT Tor a Toul shoT To sTarT The Third and Tinal sudden deaTh period. WesT Side Then Tollowed wiTh The game-winning goal. AlThough The Bellboys did noT Tinish TirsT in The Tamed Tourna- menT, The Team was one which will long be remembered. fp le ' VARSITY The l955 Varsiiy Baskefball squad is pic+ured above. They are Frank Csaszar. Joe PrieTo. T0fY1 Cullen, Roger Weinsfein, Richard Hangge, George Mamunes, John Barfell. Jim l-df1d0f1- CaPfa'n Richie VeiTh, Ronald KaboT, and Joe Long.

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llfwflz who anal feam Le dorfevl auf flume of flue far-geaf daze FRESHMEN Here is The Freshman Team coached by Wilho Winika. These boys worked hard This year and have plenTy of size and poTenTial possibiliTies To give Belleville The Top-nofch varsiTy we wanT in I959. puT The damper on Orange I9-6. which was en- hanced by a Tremendous 85-yard run by quarTer- back Frank Puleo. NexT year's Team will miss such players as Dolan. Olphin, McCabe. Mignon, Dal Bon, Lilore, Berga- mini, BenedeTTi, and Macaluso. Richard Macaluso was named by The Newark News and The Newark STar Ledger as a member of The all-counTy Team. We would like To Thank JiTTy Wische, Ray SmiTh, Ed Berlinski, and Wilho Winika Tor all The hard work They did as coaches. Much crediT should be given To The avid Tans who, despiTe The losses, followed The Team from game To game. The kickoff aT The Kearny game. Go! Man! Go! Rre Bob F el' keep fhe mana fcfufed jirecfor. 'sieve are H, ichfe M rederick ings r Qerg and l vefi.-ms' My Ellignrgng smoomufpmen, I effy Rho Y. des 6 ev I nd

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h lr + B ll 'll d ' The Junior Varsify Tournameni' Joe Long driving around Nu+ley's defense for an An aclion s oi' fa en a e ev: e urmg . easy lay-up. Piciure was loaned +o us ihe courfesy of The NEWARK NEWS. 340 gfea JUNIOR VARSITY The Junior Varsiiy +eam, under +he iraining of Coach Ray Smiih, had a successful season wiih 8 wins and 7 losses. ff 3- FRESHMEN Coach Herman Knuppel was ihe di recfor of 'this impressive Freshman Bas- lcefball Team. 67 fhrough Belleville losi' fo Orange, 65-bl. f won er id fhaf fierce id anyone LH ague. i I - 3 Ji 1 1 is i 1