Thomas Jefferson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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I916' 'Nc X you 'ro got lo be a hero ATTer a war-Time pigslrin absence oT Three long years, JeTTer- son once again has iTs huskies wearing The orange and blue on The gridiron. STarTing Trom scraTch, we've builT an aggregaTion ThaT The school has reason To be proud oT. ATTer pracTicing arduously Tour and Tive hours a day under The slcilled direcTion oT lvlr. ArThur Goldman, The TaculTy coach, The squad learned oTTensive and deTensive TooTball, and aT The season's opener on OcTober I2 emerged againsTlV1idwood a balanced and TighTing aggregaTion. ATTer dropping The iniTial conTesT 6-O, The boys bounced back, Turning in consecuTive wins over Teams ThaT mosT experTs gave us liTTle chance oT beaTing. Coming Trom behind in all Three TilTs, The niclaelmen emerged The vicTors againsT Poly Prep, Seward Parlc, and STuyvesanT, The Tinal scores reading l9-I4, I2-7, and I3-I2 in The respecTive conTesT. The TJ baclcTield, led by Al C5ursTein, PeTe Karaban, Sonny Gold, WhiTey Kobran, Larry Chizener and lVlarTy Jacobs, has Turned in perTormances They have iusT reason To be proud oT. Karaban, aT righT halTbacl4, has repeaTedly brolren away Tor long runs, cuTTing around would-be Taclclers and slipping elusively ouT oT The hands oT opponenTs. PeTe's speed, shiTTiness, and his abiliTy To sTop and cuT malce him him a naTural Tor oTTeTacl4le and end runs, and once away in a brolcen Tield, he can usually carry The ball To pay dirT.

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S fr X S X S Sonny Gold aT leTT halTback does mosT oT The passing Tor The Team and has demonsTraTed his skill aT hiTTing his receiver wiTh well-Thrown heaves. Gold can carry The pigskin Too, and wheTher passing or running, has whaT iT Takes. On The line, sTarTing sloTs belong To CapTain Mike Paladino aT cenTer, Jerry KurTz and Dave FerTig aT Tackles, Meyer Diller and WhiTey Weiner aT guards, and Jerry VapniTsky and George Beansy Rosenbloom aT ends. Working smooThly wiTh The backicield, Time and again The line has opened up huge holes in The opposi- Tion's deTense Tor oTT-Tackle runs and line-bucks. On passing and kicking plays, The boys have held like a sToneiwall, giving The bac:kTield plenTy oT Time To geT The ball away. . T The currenT season will be The lasT Tor seniors Paladino, KurTz, FerTig, VapniTsky, and ends Gene ChesTer and Fred Shapiro. AT The end posiTions, lanky VapniTsky has shown a remarkable abiliTy To gaTher in diTFiculT passes, while ChesTer and Shapiro have played Their posiTions wiTh The sparkle and drive Typical oT The enTire squad. The graduaTion oT The seniors on The squad will undoubTedly weaken The Team considerably, buT given a chance, The Ripper and The remaining boys will Turn ouT a pigskin eleven nexT year ThaT will do honor To The Orange and Blue. Phil Brogadir jeff downed tilden in turkey day ganna I3-6