Cliffside Park High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Cliffside Park, NJ)

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X ' :li Jyyi lv '. 'I' . A 1 --'Jil q AT' fu' ' .T ' , 'MJ .avi NX 42 FUJI ww Seberl, Ackerzmzfz, Mr. Milfzer, Hazmzzhmz, Zimmer. Second ww Zire, Gozdezmzficla, Duym, Calebrefe. Baigefgaff Having been crowned 1941 State Champions, Cliffside Park High School eagerly looked forward to the new season. Through graduation, Cliffside had lost two of its hrst stringers, Ulrich Kaiser and flashy Dick Birdsall. The call for basketball players was answered by many promising hopefuls. Coach Milner's work began right in the beginning in having to cut the squad. After much hard work and practice, Cliffside was ready. After disposing of the Alumni, Cliffside entered league competition by playing Hackensack. When the smoke of battle had cleared away, our rooters went home confident of the team's prowess, be- cause Cliffside had beaten Hackensack 42 to 27. Calebrese showed he meant business by scoring eleven points, followed by nine from Duym. In the encounter with Englewood, Cliffside again emerged victorious by the score of 37 to 23. This time Calebrese and Zirk both scored twelve points. At last Cliffside made its home debut, with Tenafly as its guests, Cliffside put on the pressure, bringing the total score to 49-27, with Frank 'KSuperman Sebest scoring the sum of seventeen points, followed by Eagle-eyef' Calebrese with fourteen. The next game with Teaneck promised to be, and was a real thriller, nip and tuck from the starting whistle, but toward the end Cliffside drew away, ending up on the long side of a 39-29 score. Sebest again showed the way by scoring twelve points. After this it was comparatively easy sledding over Ridgefield Park and Leonia by the scores of 43-29, and 43-26, respectively. As we looked about for new foes to conquer, Rutherford loomed as our most formidable foes, having been beaten only once by Hackensack. The game was played before an overflowing crowd on our home court, but the Red and Black passers of Cliffside came to grief after winning twenty-one straight games. It was a close game X 4,

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all the way, ford's zone c Cliffside waz: ner had a ha Cliffs 55-39 in a he final score being 35 to 29. Cliffside's fast breaking attack had Ruther- ense alert throughout the entire game, but to no avail. Another loss to i ef the ineligibility of Bob Zirk who played his last league game. Coach Mil- td time finding a replacement for him. i now bounced back into the win column by defeating East Rutherford de :Con-league game. jerry Calebrese almost set a new scoring record for the Cliffside gy for almost a did not alfec In o Hackensack sack came E the scores bei Cliffs Cliffside a l nothing abo when he netted twenty points! In this game our second stringers played half and held the south Bergen team on even terms. However, the game ur standing in the league. pning the second half of the current season, Cliffside played host to id promptly succeeded in handing them a 39-29 loss. Following Hacken- lewood and Tenafly, both going down to defeat before the Cliffdwellers, Ig 36-19, and 48-30, respectively. e now succeeded in toppling Teaneck by the score of 36-23. It took le while to get started, but once they did the Teaneck Five could do it. Next to be added to Cliffsides victims were Leonia and Ridgeield t O L7 l Park by the cores of 60-27, and 51-27. Once again we were to meet Rutherford at Rutherford, this time for the League Championship. Both teams were dead-locked in first place, each having lost a game. This was th number of st so, hundreds the losers by with a defea had a field d e last game of the basketball season. That February 25th, a surprising ents became ill, but all appeared at the game, miraculously cured. Even :ere turned away. The game was hotly contested, but Cliffside came out ie score of 34-27. It was a hard game to lose, but we ended the season over East Rutherford, 59-33. jerry Calebrese, CliPfside's great forward, ud V lil lf ay, scoring twenty-two points. So ended Cliffside's regular 1941-1942 season with the enviable record of fifteen games won, ar two lost. Cliffside finished in second place in the Northern New jersey Interscholastic eague.