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

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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

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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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basketball l.eT us seT down here The sTory oT our baslceTball guinTeT, Their Triumphs and Their deTeaTs during our Tour years sTay aT JeTTer- son. Vifay baclc during The season oT IQ43-44, The sTarTers on The JeTT hoop sguad were Mac ZasloTslci, Jack Williky, Jack Gordon, Irv CuTTy Rosenberg and T-lerby Novaclc. ZasloTslci's shooTing, iumping and all around drive made him one oT The besT ballplayers in ciTy scholasTic baslceTball. lvlac piloTed The squad on The courT, seTTing up plays, Teeding and passing. Top man in The scoring column well inTo The laTTer parT oT The season, Mac iusT missed gaining The crown Tor The mosT poinTs scored in ciTy-wide compeTiTion during The year. Jaclc Williky will be remembered Tor his unusual dead seT shoT. Though only 5 TeeT 9 inches Tall, Jacks drive and deTensive lcnow- how made him a perTecT man on The deTens sive, while his seT shoT accounTed Tor many JeTTerson Tallies. AT cenTer Jaclc Gordon was a valuable man on The Team, under The boards and in The pivoT sloT. The amazing one- handeid push shoTs neTTed by popular CuT- Ty Rosenberg placed him second in The scor- ing ToTals. CuTTy will long be remembered as The boy ThaT clinched The division TiTle Tor JeTT wiTh a lasT minuTe one-handed Tield goal againsT Boys. AT The season's end our squad boasTed seven wins and one loss in PSAL compeTiTion. ln The Brooklyn championship playoTT be- Tween JeTTerson and Erasmus, our slowness in geTTing our aTTaclc sTarTed cosT us The game and so ended JeTTerson's never dying hope Tor a ciTy crown in I943. JeTTerson came ouT wiTh renewed hopes in '44, The Team Tailed To place second in The division aTTer a hearT-brealcing one poinT loss To EasTern. LasT year's rosTer included Rosenberg, Ro- sen. WiTkin, lvlessinger, Seymour Ooshie ReiTT, Joe PasTuch, Murray RosloTslcy, Marvin lvlahl, and Shelly Berl4owiTz. Rosen, WiTl4in and Messinger were all comparaTively liTTle men, buT Their brillianT seTshoTs and clever ball handling enabled The squad To worlc per- TecTly as a well-TuncTioning uniT. The Team en- ioyed a highly successTul season in T945 AT-