Linton High School - Lintonaire Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Tha If Wing Qpinilb Coach William Eafon came To LinTon This year faced wiTh reconsTrucTion problems and few holdovers from lasT season. Through his leadership, LinTon's Foofball Team is now on The road back To success. Lending a helping hand were new assisTanT coaches, Dominick Denio and Richard Lalla, wiTh refurning line coach William Purdy. Eafon, in his firsT year as coach, had The fellows moving ouT of a Two plaToon sysTem, which seemed To wear The opposiTion down. Under The reviTalizaTion program of Coach Lalla, The backfield picked up speed and disTance. A solid line was developed under The waTchful eyes of Coaches Denio and Purdy. These facTors added up To a powerful Team. which began To show Tremendous power near The end of The season. Senior Co-capfains Dave Torre and Claude Guerra led The backfield as well as The line To firsT downs in every game. The iunior-dominaTed squad received fighfing spiriT from fasT and lighf backs as Dick McNeal, Nick Capra. VARSITY FOOTBALL ' ijfwr 7 www Sepf. I9 LinTon 0 La Salle I3 Sepf. 26 LinTon 0 Amsferdam 6 OCT. LinTon 20 Troy 7 OCT. I0 LinTon O N. Y. MiliTary Academy O OcT. I7 LinTon O Newburgh 7 OCT. 26 LinTon O Albany 26 Nov. LinTon 0 Monf Pleasanf 33 . gg A h ' lv LC was Foofball Varsify-Fronf Row, leff To righT: Bezio, Brady, DeFeIippo, Trapini, Raefhka, DiLallo. Hucker, King, BernadT, Carpenfer, Guerra. DeMaTTeo. Second Row: Tuccronia, Eglenfine, Torre, Marshall, Capra. Dick STipano, George Hollenbeck, Joe Crow, Frank Trzeciak. Eddie LonTraTo, Mike Killion, Joe TannaTTa, PeTer Maioriello, and Jerry Appley. Special menTion should be given To The Top senior Iinemen who kepf The from' wall solid from end To end. The rampaging line consisfed of Angelo DeFeIippo. Carmen DeMaTTeo, Gary DiLallo. and Bill BernadT, who received sfrong backing from Jim Trapini, Larry Zeglen, Tom Kelly. William King, and Tom Bezio. Filling in aT cenTer was experienced senior George Gufhinger who alTernaTed wiTh fellow iunior Teammafes John Robillard and Dick Hucker. Holding down The end posifions were Tall Allan RaeThka. Mike Marshall, Allan Carpenfer, and Ron lovinella. Suspense and mysTery were seldom absenT from any of LinTon's games. And all hearTs felT warm on The cold Safurday affernoon lasT Ocfober when The LinTon eleven rode To vicTory over Class-A TiTIe-conTender Troy High, 20-7. LinTon is looking forward To many fufure vicTories over her opponenTs. Nobody quife realized iusT whaT Coach EaTon's flaming spiriT could do for The Blue Devils. I-Ie Took an inexperienced line and a lighT backfield, igniTed Them wiTh his own compeTiTive spark and senT Them charging Through The opposiTion lines. WiTh so much promising maferial refurning nexT fall, no sTudenT aT LinTon can have buf an opTimisTic ouflook for The I96O fooTball season. Loyal managers PaT Marfin and Dave Pepin sum up The Thoughfs of all associaTed wiTh our fooTball when They say. NexT year's fooTball Team will be The greaTesT LinTon has ever seen! Third Row: Feldman. Morriello, Biscossi, Kehoe, Mqljpal, Peroffi, Sfipano, lovenella, Bricocolli, Lonfrado. F0UlfTI'1,'lRUN5l Gufhinger. EeckerI,Appley,Zeglen, Robillard, Killian, Ryan,LKelly, ,J -1 If ' .i ' .

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JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL In Their opening game, LinTon's yearlings were held To a scoreless Tie by AmsTerdam. Sparking LinTon were sTrong eTTorTs by Ernie MaroTTa, Joe Ruzzo, and Bill Ivlakofski on oTTense and Tine deTensive play by Dick Farone, I-'Iowie Lorch, and Jerry Zimolka. The Blue Devils nexT Traveled To Troy and reTurned wiTh a I3eO vicTory. Dick Wilgocki and Dan Delvleo scored Touchdowns Tor LinTon, Then LaSalle invaded LinTon and evened ouT our record by inTlicTing a 6-O loss on The hosTs. In a conTrolled scrimmage wiTh Bishop Gibbons, we held a deTiniTe edge in Touchdowns, 4-I. Lou Gregory, Bruce Rees, Paul Bricoccoli, Dan Delvleo, and Dick Wilgocki led The way Tor LinTon. Then our boys rose To The occasion by whipping The Albany Team 33-6. The Team climaxed a successful season wiTh a I4-O vicTory over rival IvlonT Pleasant IT was LinTor1's TirsT win over The Hill in Three years. Ronnie Greco and Bill Iv1akoTski scored Touchdowns Tor LinTon. Gregory, BuTTer, VendeTTi, and Trapini also gave solid eTTorTs as The Blue Devils closed wiTh a 3-I-I record. Dick Farone was eIecTed capTain. This year's Junior VarsiTy managers were John PeTerson and John Choiecki. my T 'll lfyodif 1 X 0 - ' T , 'IXA ov ' , c -M JUNIOR VARSITY-I959 X, . Linfon ix Q O Amsjrerdam iiiiix-off ' O La Salle Ts XX 33 Albany 6 I4 MonT Pleasanf O ff yi FOOTBQUQ nior VarsiTy-FronT Row, Idff To righT: Makofskf Clem- ,Q 'Q Qrhjhbeo, Trapani, Gidley, Farone A Gregory, BuTler, 4 ocki. Second Row: Greco, Fyvie, Reese, Wag- ner, MaroTa, VendeTTi, Zimolka STe ShaTTer, Corbef. V- gl