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IINTI-IROIDUIQTIION Another four years in the glorious history of James Nladison has unfolded. With it has gone many great memories. Some of the most wonderful have been recorded in the field of sports. Long will we remember the figure of Frank Torre -- one of Madison's greatest baseball players, pitching no-hit ball . . . and the tremendous roar that greeted the final buzzer of the Far Rockaway grid game, with the scoreboard telling of the great upset, MADISON 25: FAR ROCKAVVAY 20. Vvho can forget Captain Fred Lane, at the Basketball Dance, introducing the lwladison basketball team, division champions, or the baby-faced star of the hoop- sters, Frankie King? Yes. the past four years have certainly been great ones in Black and Gold ath- letics. VVin, lose or draw, James Madisori is and always will be a name to respect. MADISON BASKETBALL 1951-52 was a season in which basketball highlighted the sports scene as Niadi- son capped the Brooklyn P.S.A.L. Division Il crown. Led by its sensational scoring ace, Frankie King, Madison ran up a string of 14 consecutive victories to earn a playoff position in the borough eliminations. Although beaten by Boys High, the Black and Gold nevertheless proved itself to be one of the finest aggregations ever assembled by Coach Jammy Moskowitz. A will to win combined with Fiery hustle and aggressiveness enabled Madison to provide the school with its first champion- ship team since the 1943 season. This was not a team composed of individual ball- players: it was a well-balanced, closely knit unit concerned mainly with team victory, not individual glory. Jammy lVloskowitz's 1-ive featured a blazing fast break on offense, backed up by a sterling defense, limiting opposition to a scant 44.6 points a game. This proved to be the best defensive record in Division Il competition. in addition, Madison ranked third in team scoring with an average of 54.5 points per ball game. Frankie King broke all existing Madison scoring records as he rolled up a total of 260 points in P.S.A.L. competition while also producing a record breaking 30 points in one ball game. Quite a feat lor a 15 year old sophomore. Backing up King in the scoring department were Roy Kieval with 129 points, Fred Lane with 126, and Milt Winawer with 110. This combination, along with King, was one of the most dangerous offensive units in the league. Greatly contributing to the effectiveness of the team were four seniors, of whom we can well be proud: Fred Lane, Johnny Graziadei, Stu Sperling, and Donald Bender.
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FOOTBALL TEAM in 1948 Al Caruso, one ol ixladisons all time greats, took over as head football coach. This year marks the end ol' his coaching career at ixiadison, and taking over next year's team will he Mike and Sam Torgan. Sam was assistant coach under Al Caruso while his father coached iV1adison's hest teams of past years. Under Mike Torgan, Niadison produced some of the greatest foothall stars ever to play in New York City. Together this fine father and son com- hination should once again hring hack the championship to Madison and help estahlish the Golden Tornado as one of the hig foothall threats in the city. Madison hegan its 1948 season hy crushing a weak ixfiidwood team 19-6 at the Brooklyn College Field. The next game saw iviadison lose to a good Erasmus squad, 13-7. in the first night game in ten years at Ehhets Field. Madison lost its second straight game to Brooklyn Tech 20-6. The next two games with Tilden and New Utrecht hoth resulted in ties. lV1adison's record for the 1948 season was one win. live defeats, and two ties. in 1949, Niadison once again hegan its season hy defeating ixiidwood, this time 12-6. in the next game, for the second straight year, ixfiadison and New Utrecht finished the game in a tie. in the game with Erasmus fthen the Borough Champs, the Madison eleven played its hest game of the season hut still ended upon the wrong end of an 18-7 score. After this exciting game with Erasmus, Madison hounced right hack with a 6-0 win over Tiiden at Madison Field. Following this win the Quentin Roaders seemed to fall apart and finished up the season hy losing three straight games to Brooklyn Tech, Boys High and Lafayette. in the last game of the season lxfiadison came from hehind in the second half on touchdowns hy Red White and Larry Vveiss to heat a favored Lincoln eleven for the first time in ten years. This game was not only one of the hest comehacks ever displayed hy a Madison team hut was also one of the most exciting games ever to he played hy the Black and Gold. As it turned out this was the last loothali game until 1951 when the han on extra-curricular activities was lifted. Madison opened up its 1951 season hy heating Tilden 12-0 at Tilden Field. Touchdowns were scored hy quarterhack Hanratty and fullback Nicholsen. Another star of this first game of the season was hiark Strausherg who set up one of the touchdowns hy intercepting a Tilden pass and running it hack forty yards. The next encounter of the season saw an underdog ixfiidwood team play the stronger Madison team to a 6-6 tie. Under the lights at Ehhets Field Madison heat New Utrecht for the first time in three years hy the score ol 19-6. in their first real test oi the season to prove just how good they were. an inspired Madison team heat Far Rockaway 25-20 at Madison Field. Prior to this game Far Rockaway was undefeated and had only heen scored upon once. Due to injuries to three key players Madison finished up the season hy losing to Lafayette 27-6 then to Lincoln 58-0 and finally to Erasmus. The Seniors who played for the Carusomen were: Harry Nicholsen, Don Wachtell, Mark Strausherg, Sherry Postal, Ronnie Sher, Murray Gross, ixfiarty Brownstein, Joe Lamana, Dave Ravin, Don Bender, Billy Geller, Murray Alias, Arnie Levine, Captain Stan Mazer, Fred Girsky. Les Xvallace and lwleyer Smukler.
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