Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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4 5 QE, ft Q we 4' g 0 Q 5 2' Z 'Q sl if f 5 1 . 5, . Q 1 9 pyzhxvl League Schedule Brooklyn Tech Opponent 2 Bushwick, Oct. 9 ............... ................ 0 7 Westinghouse, Oct. ll ...... 0 5 Automotive, Oct. 'I6 ....... 0 ll Jefferson, Oct. '19 .......... ...... 0 2 Boys High, Oct. 23 ...... ...... 0 2 Bushwick, Oct. 26 ........... 0 5 Westinghouse, Oct. 30 ...... 0 6 Automotive, Nov. 2 ..... 0 2 Jefferson, Nov. 6 ...... 0 3 Boys High, Nov. 8 ........................ 1 QUARTER-FINALS 'I Lafayette, Nov. 20 ..................... l 2 Lafayette, Nov. 27 ..................... 'I SEMI-FINALS 4 Commerce, Nov. 30 ..,................ 0 FINALS 2 Columbus, Dec. 7 ........... 2 2 Columbus, Dec. ll ....... 0 RALPH SWANTEK SUEEEH The road leading to the city championship started as far back as 1948, when the soccermen were still under the guidance of Mr. Dorin. Soccer was at that time com- paratively new to Brooklyn P.S.A.L. competition. There was just one division which contained all the Brooklyn teams. During the course of this season, the Tech squad compiled an ll-1-2 record, enabling them to finish in a three-way tie with Lafayette and Fort Hamilton. In the resulting play-off game for the borough championship, Tech was defeated by Lafayette 1-0, the tilt going six overtime periods before a decision was reached. The 1949 campaign saw a great increase in the num- ber of schools supporting soccer teams, necessitating the formation of two divisions. The Engineers, placed in Division 1, began to romp over all t11e other teams and finished with a 10-0-0 record. During the course of these games, the soccermen picked up 44 goals with not a single tally scored against them! In the resulting play-off game, pitting the winners of both divisions against each other, Tech once again encountered Lafayette. After a hard furious battle, Lafayette came out on the long end of a 2-0 score, to become the Brooklyn champions. sos Roomeusz GERRY DeLACE ED LEITGEB RALPH SWANTEK

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in Q M 3 IS oach CONNELL and Manager DON McLELLAN clocking Tech's mermen. Co-Capt. BOB KIM and Capf. JOHN APMANN relax after a race Tech's swimming team has become addicted to chlorine. They'1'e part fish. Look closely at them, and you'd see fins. as these spread all over Tech as its chlorinated herrings compiled a straight victories. However, in the last meet of the season, Tech lost by a of 37-30. At the P.S.A.L. City Cham held University, the team, paced Captain john placed third. Bob Kim, ' yd. breaststroke, butterfly si Iohn Apmann, Tech's 200 yd. in the 220 yd. freestyle. Joe Holbrook, one ist 1n the one-meter dive. -Iohn Huson, Jim Ted Bob Byrnes, Jim Metropole and Bob Jung, showing A Everyone on the team to Don McLellan who managed the team during the past running smoothly at all the meets. Next year's team for borough and city titles will be supported by the Jung, Bob Bailie, Ted Blumenstock and Marty Maloney and Frank Wedl and breaststrokers Al YVashower and F help to keep Tech ranked among the best in the city boys great competitive spirit and should be individual e VVith the able coaching of Mr. Connell, the team will come top.

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iHAMPlONSHlP TEAM I95I RODRIGUEZ and MATACIA ag Cf ig fl' x . il l. ll .Lie .ALE il..Qf.,i.L, Due to the curtailment of extra-curricular activities, there was no organized soccer team in 1950. The team had to wait another year to avenge their defeats at the hands of Lafayette. YVith the coming of the new season, Mr. Peck succeeded Mr. Dorin, as coach. ln order to get the team functioning properly. many preseason encounters were played, with Tech victorious in all of them. During the regular league play, the Peckmen won handily over all their opponents, racking up 45 points against one for the opposition. For the Borough crown, Lafayette, winner in Division 2, was again their opponent. The two teams met on a raw and windy day in the middle of November and after completing two overtime periods, the match was called a draw, with the score knotted at 1-I. A week later, the two teams met again, this time the decision going to Tech by means of a 2-1 count after two overtime periods. Tech drew Hrst blood midway in the hrst period when Captain Richie Matacia tallied, with assists from Bill Schlegelmilch and John Kelly. Lafayette retaliated in the next quarter as their center-forward headed in a corner kick. The deciding marker came in about the first Hfty seconds of the hrst overtime period when Schlegelmilch passed to Matacia who booted the ball past the Lafayette goalie. Gaining revenge on Lafayette and at the same time getting through the quarter-finals, the soccermen found their next obstacle to be Commerce H.S., victors in Manhattan. This game also went to the Engineers, with Bob Rodriguez the point scoring ace, getting one goal and assisting on two others. Two points were tallied in both the third and fourth periods. Rodriguez registered the first goal, Matacia, on an assist from Harold Magneson, accounted for the second, and Rodriguez assisted on Magneson's and Donny Foh's four period scores. The only one left to beat was Christopher Columbus, winner of the Bronx division. In their first encounter, Tech and Columbus battled through four over- time periods to a 2-2 stalemate. This was the first time in sixteen games that the Discoverers had been scored upon after racking up fifteen victories i11 a row. The Peckmen scored Grst in this tilt with Rodriguez finding the range on an assist by Freddy -Iaeck. Columbus bounced back with two successive goals to take the lead and hold it for most of the game. But a lighting Tech team was not to be defeated that easily. So with less than a minute to play, Richie Matacia knotted the count, with an assist going to Steve Chirogianis. Since it was so late in the season, a co-champion proposition was made to both schools-Columbus refused. The two teams met for the last time on December l lth at Forest Hills High School Field. The fray was about live minutes old when Bob Rodriguez, who scored the initial goal in the Hrst encounter against Columbus, came in and booted the ball past the goalie to give Tech its hrst score. Approxi- mately fifteen minutes later, Steve Chirogianis capitalized on a penalty shot from the 11-meter line for l1is fifth straight penalty shot of the season to give Tech a 2-0 edge. Tech proceeded to hold this lead for the remainder of the game. Thus the Brooklyn Tech soccer team won their first City Championship in their entire existence. i . A MR. ARTHUR PECK . Q cg K W 1 1 I I 1 .T e 1 . 5 S l A Y - Q .ft 'Q N at-r A 73. , , t -51:'5imi2A'i' s ' p ' ' , j-'sQaf4v:,.,..aa?4.as.i.v,.fa.aaf...M..t.,.w....,..... ct 1.4 +, -wsfzciif ny yi 'Q fffew5:f '15:'3 it ., . 3...-3,i,ggg,g ,v fs,ixS.v.-.Q 1 .7 'M vi e,3'1fca 33 L, sw - ' , ' arte.-iafsw-,if.s,aswSw'ar -www-W..M.Wf.v.....t...,.N.,.,..