Belleville High School - Monad Yearbook (Belleville, NJ)

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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

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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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CREW -gAl'0lUl'l auf fo Aea Coaches Bill BenneTT and Ray Smifh viewing The boys from The doclr of The boaT house on The Passaic River. Ready, all row! This picfure was Taken as The Bellboys were working ouT on The river. The Passaic River. The 1955 Crew, alThough lighTer Than The crews oT The pasT Tew years, has The power To win. The varsiTy eighT wiTh coaches and manager Travels all along The EasTern seacoasT Trom MassachuseTTs To Philadelphia as well as remaining on The Passaic Tor races. l-laving as iTs home dock The Nereid BoaT Club, The Crew pracTices daily on The Passaic River. The club is The place where The Belleville and NuTley crews lceep The shells and equipmenT. This year Bob BarTleTT is managing The boys and Bill BenneTT and Ray SmiTh are coaching our Team oT l-lowie lrving. bow: l-larry Glass, 2: Jack Con- nollyg 33 Harry Reynolds, 4: Bob Lane, 5: 'Tom Dolan, 61 Howie Taubin, 7g Bob Greene, sTroke: and Gene Hopper, coxswain. The Crew has raced againsT college Treshmen and oTher high schools. Among Them were M.l.T.. KenT, RuTgers and Columbia, as well as La Salle, NuTley, ArlingTon, Roosevelt and Poughkeepsie high schools. The high-ligh+ OT The season was The NaTional Schoolboy Cham ionship race on The A 'formal shoi' of The VarsiTy EighT VarsiTy Four, and subs aT The clock on Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. 4 if ,47-ti-r4M,v 'Q fi 1 , f 1, I 1 A If .' '-1 X, S. uf fi' I llj' 3 ' ,.,. Af 1- 1 v X ..,.,, , Q,L,,,,f - . ,- up-v The varsiTy 'Four shell crew wifh bowman, Gerry Gilroy Harold Hollisferg Johnny Seazholfzg sfrolce, Walfer Schick ram: and coxswain, Bob AssanTes.