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

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GULF A X J- 'M V 4 .f L. Io R.-Top Row: STUART PERLMAN, COACH JOHN BALSAM, WILLIAM PETER Bot. Row: SAM LaPLACA, CAPTAIN ARTIE GREEN- BERG, and WILLIAM CARDONE Due to the curtailment of extra-curricular activities, Brooklyn Tech's tennis team has been almost inactive. Two years ago, when the team After a lapse of two years the Tech golf team is once again on the scene. This is the I st year since 1949 that the team has been abl lefend its City Championship title. It was 4 that the fabulous team, co-captained by tole and Wfalter -acobson, swept to victory ve their competition to cop city champ h honors. Although most of the veterans have w d uated the teams looks pretty good Back with Coach john Balsam 1 Captain Artie, a good, steady golfer, is being h WYTPW relied was still in competition under the coaching of V, . . lv isberger Ken Abere the Captain and star Q E - fzgzggjginx won many local tournaments. - D D , . . 'Z:iig:,fi,v.'Q' at time a lreshman by the name of Hank coming up. through the ranks. Though :'Q:.,,:A,,: . xpcrience in competition Hank has 0 SSIIJIIILICS Because of this talent hc has 'ghfxggt oscn captain of the 1952 team 'llfiyl ' ecently Mr Martin Lefkowltz Chairman .O of thc n alth Education department and the all 'Iech tennis coach llus year with the re upon to take over the number one slot. ., vival of a full schedule of activities, Mr. Lefko seniors and Sam LaPlaca and Stuart Perlma ' lg with other teams for inter-scholastic two lower termers, go the remaining four be AI 5 ' ,U l- X fi fs . f:,.I .1 Upvc 0 ' m t 1 X M .gwfm me . J. ,ye 4 He., ,,.,, - '-' . A. -, , , .. .Q 'f' A 4 . ' - -.. 4 'tv . r ' V. ' I . - -g: , . I. , ' K 1 r - t J I. H J I - Artie Greenberg, a veteran of the 194 paign. X roun ete of that department, has become . g m? A . i t , . 7 Q, . Q - With PSYC DCMHY0 and Bill Peter, twf hopes to see the tennis team successfully com- , . , -S .' -2 - -. S55 'K h I .h ' s. on the team. None of these four have previo la 'ed on the team, but the' are bein ' counted P 7 . l 3.. on to shoulder the rest ol the responsibility. ll 'I 'I ag, TENNIS L. +0 R.-Top Row: COACH MARTIN LEFKOWITZ, JOEL ALBERT, CAPTAIN HANK SOBELL, MARTY ROSINSKYp Bo++om Row: ARNIE MESSER, JERRY MUSHER, IRA POLEVOY

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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.,.,..

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fifvff EB B SHETBZ-lLL After going through a dismal hrst half season, the leeh eagers came roaring back with live straight wins over 'l'ilden, Automotive, Eastern District, Alexander Hamilton and George XVest- inghouse to end the season in third place ahead of Tilden in the Brooklyn Division l hoop raee. '1'he streak saw the Engineers avenging defeats suffered in the first half of the season at the hands of Tilden, Automotive, and Eastern District. The Tech hoopsters all through the streak were led by flashy srorer, eo-Captain Nelson Osa. .X consistent twenty-point man all through the season, Osa really hit his stride in this finishing streak. He racked up twenty-four points against Tilden, twenty-seven against Eastern District, sixteen against XVestinghouse and twenty-six against Hamilton for a blazing twenty-four series average. Although 'l'eeh's 8-6 season record belies it, they had a good team. The team led Iefferson, division champs, at hall' time and were .not over- eome until the end of the third quarter. They held Boys High close until the end and in pre- season play they defeated Seward Park, Man- hattan ehampions, by 8 points. Coach Goldman feels that next year 'l'eeh's team will be a tough contender for the Brooklyn title since they will lose but two players, Co- eaptains Bob Miller and Nelson Osa.