Passaic High School - Echo Yearbook (Passaic, NJ)

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P BASIKIETBAILIL Highlighting Passaic's l945-'46 basketball season was the great display of teamwork and spirit shown by the Indians after the graduation in january of the team's star cager, Lenny Selden. The Bramsonmen went on to defeat East Rutherford and Rutherford in well-played games and lost by narrow margins to Eastside of Paterson and to Garfield. Passaic's com- plete record in Conference competition was four wins and eight losses. Passaic's victory over East Rutherford was by a close 42-39 score, made possible by Norman Dicker- man's layup shot late in the final period. A previous victory over East Rutherford was by a more impres- if ia BASKETBALL CHU? age 104 LEADERS sive 38-27 count. Against Rutherford, Passaic won 41-26 on Lincoln's Birthday, but lost on Washing- ton's Birthday to the Bulldogs by an almost identical score, 42-27. In Passaic's game with Garfield the score was tied, 30-30, with two minutes left to play. However, Passaic faltered in the closing seconds and lost 36-30. Featuring this game was the remarkable accuracy of the Indian foul shooters, sinking 16 straight free throws. The Indians lost 32-30 to Garfield the hrst time the teams met. Passaic's game with Eastside was marked by the outstanding floor play of the Passaic cagemen. However, the more experienced Eastside team was able to win out 41-36. Passaic's flrst game with Eastside saw the Paterson team win 57-39. Other conference games played were with Pater- son Central and Clifton. The first game against Cen- tral saw Passaic completely outclass the Colts in every department of play, winning by a 35-17 count. Cen- tral bounced back, however, to defeat the Indians 54-50 in a thrilling game in which Dick Arnold netted 32 points. Clifton High, ranking best in the Valley Conference, defeated the Indians twice, 50-31 and 65-28. The only non-Conference game played was a loss to Weehawken by a 70-26 score. Passaic also played in three post-season jamboree games and in the New jersey State basketball tournament. High scorer for the cagemen was Dick Arnold with 109 points exclusive of the Conference jambor- ees and the state tourney game. Lenny Seiden scored 75 markers in the six games he played in January, many of them on long set shots. Captain Don Farinel- la netted 43 points in regular season play. john Wal- ler made 87 points, Norman Dickerman, 31, and Al Liptak, 23. Before being injured, Stuart Bierman had 53 points. Others on the varsity squadwere David Chester, Dan Piekarsky, George Bramson, and Her- man Connors. The junior Varsity squad won 6 games out of 10. On the jayvee team were Eddie Weisenfeld, Perry Richardson, Alfred Thomson, Harold Sacks, jack Nadler, Charles Zingone, Herbert Groendyke, Seymour Green, James Endler, Gus Ravelas, john Roepke, David Kennedy, and Ralph Simon. Dick Peres was manager, Robert Teitelbaum and Dick Rosenberg, assistant managers. . Y

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