New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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HANDBALL The handball Team, under Coach Ed Berg, was undeTeaTed This year in The regular season games, and won The division TiTle. They were handed Their TirsT deTeaT by Lincoln in The semi-Tinal playoTTs oT The CiTy championship TournamenT. Paul Friedman, CapTain oT The Team, was one oT The mosT ConsisTenT players on The Team. ln a Tour- Team league wiTh ForT l-TamilTon, Manual, and lvlidwood, The handball Team won every maTch in The regular season by a shuTouT. Mr. Berg is very pleased wiTh The resu s oT This seasons plax and hopes his Team can repeaT Their success nexT year. GULF Avnoaoh Q- ' is ore oT The naTions mosT popular sporTs, iT is relaTively unlcnown New l.l 'eohT, Wie do, however, have a Tairly good Team, under The guidance OT N . lrs co ooefg. Thex is on Tour games and losT Three This season, Three OT The Tour - Jes oom no as shuTouTs. The big sTar oT The Team was Kenny Bensen, who re- Ma 'eo J e'fa'ea 'Vs xear. l-lis play was so ouTsTanding ThaT he was awarded a Three .-. s- e 'o Buolnell UniversiTy solely on The sTrengTh oT his playing. QTher memoefs o' e Team are: l-lowie ZareTslcy, Marshall WinsTon, Dave l-larrison, and err. fe NN ' oe. A' exoepT De Vfilde are graduaTing. 5:1 WW , A, ,,.. f 4. wg . y , W 2 W 1 Z f , , W ,V W gf? 'f ,,,,. ,T 5 Q 9 7. T ZW? Z! Tw f 4 ffffwrf nv

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TRACK The Brownies, living up To The repuTaTion They seT lasT year as Boro Champs, again did Themselves proud, placing very high in many oT The major meeTs oT The season. Jaclc Nehama and Charley MonTalbano were The sTandouTs oT The Team. Nehama, running The IZO-yard low hurdles, scored consisTenTly and placed no worse Than second all season. Lenny Gurin was anoTher sTandouT. His TirsT place in The high- iump in The SchenecTady meeT helped The Team gain a highly respecTable sTanding. The LlTes placed Third in The Brooklyn championship meeT, wiTh Jack Nehama and Charley MonTalbano boTh coming Through wi+h TirsTs in Their respecTive evenTs. The Cardinal l-layes meeT was anoTher success Tor The Brownemen as They placed eighTh in a large Tield. Joe Barone sTarred in This meeT, gaining TirsT place in The 300-yard dash. Une oT The mosT conspicuous absences was ThaT oT Phil BarneTT, who was injured in a Track meeT early in The season and was unavailable Tor The resT oT The year. Also on The disabled lisT was Phil Tesoriero, who became ill early in The season. Mr. Jaclcson Browne, coach oT The TraclcsTers, will have a large replacemenT iob ahead OT him Tor nexT year as Twelve leTTermen will graduaTe. ForemosT among Them are Jaclc Nehama, Joe Barone, and AnThony MasTronardi. CTher graduaTes are: Warren Klein, lra LeichTer, STan Schlessinger, Marv Schrager, Gary Lawson, MarTy LipschiTz, Bob Rochlin, Joe Jascewslcy, and Al Pullman. INTRAMURAL BOWLING For The TirsT Time in The hisTory oT New UTrechT, an inTramural bowling Tourna- menT was held, under The direcTion oT Mr, Leonard Mandel. The TurnouT Tor The conTesT was much larger Than expecTed, a ToTal oT TiTTeen Teams applying Tor mem- bership, alThough only Ten Teams could be accommodaTed. The winners oT The TournamenT, who were decided aTTer a playoTT, were The San- anTones, closely Trailed by The NaTionals and The Ten Pins. The highesT individual score was Turned in by AnThony MasTronardi, who bowled a Zl I. Marshall WinsTon also came close, amassing a score oT 208. Paul STingo won The race Tor highesT aver- age wiTh a l55, Trailed by George CeTalu and Howie Krauss, wiTh I5l and I47 respecTively. if-1 u -us.

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Sports Stars IT rarely occurs Thaf a school has a championship Team in every sporT. IT is also ,rare To have, iT noT a championship Team, one ouTsTanding player, or perhaps TWO, in each sporT. In New UTrechT, however, we have one oT Those rariTies. IT would noT be righT To boasT ThaT we have a championship Team in every sporT, because we don'T. BuT whaT school can boasT oT a Sl-TELLY BRODSKY, KENNY BEN- SEN, JACK NET-TAMA, and a JOE BARONE, all in The same graduaTing class? SHELLY BRODSKY, Tor insTance, is a leTTer man on The baskeTball Team and The baseball Team. l-lis baTTing average lasT year was well up in The .400's. ln The balloT- ing Tor The R.S.A,l.. all-sTar baskeTball Team, he did no worse Than make The second Team on every meTropoliTan newspaper. KENNY BENSEN, sTar oT The UTe golT Team, was voTed The ouTsTanding golTer in The P.S.A.L., and is considered The ToremosT high school golTer in The ciTy. JACK NET-IAMA, one OT The mosT TalenTed TracksTers To emerge Trom UTrechT in several years, holds The ciTy championship Tor The low hurdles, and JOE BARONE, anoTher TracksTer, is one oT The mosT consisTenT poinT scorers in The league. The baskeTball Team, which iusT missed The playoTTs by one game This year, also came up wiTh several oTher ouTsTanding players. MARTY Cl-TODROEE, co-capTain along wiTh BRODSKY, led The hoopsTers in Tield goal percenTage, and was among The league's leaders in assisTs. The surprise oT The year was The perTormance oT SANTO MORTILLARO, who because he didn'T Try ouT Tor The Team unTil his iunior year, was able To play Tor The varsiTy Tor only one season, which was a phenomenal one. The bowling Team, in iTs second year oT exisTence, also Took iTs place in The parade oT sTars. JOHNNY ACIERNO, who is one oT The mosT TalenTed keglers in The league, and GEORGE CEEALU led The Team inTo a Tie Tor TourTh place, along wiTh LaTayeTTe. In The swimming deparTmenT, BARRY WEBMAN, MELVTN BARON, and l-TOWIE GOLD were sTandouTs. AlThough There were no meeTs scheduled Toi This year, lasT year They proved invaluable To Mr. MacDaviTT. The sTars menTioned, plus such oThers as GARY CAMT-ll oT The baseball Team, STAN STOGEL oT The baseball Team, ANTl-TONY TVTASTRONARDI, Track: MAR- SHALL WINSTON, golT, eTc., sTill prove ThaT alThough we do noT have a champion- ship Team in every sporT, we sTill have more Than our share oT sporTs sTars. TwenTy-eighT