Chuckbits In the 2020 Calendar Year and Forward As provided by Chuck Langerman , noted South Jersey sports historian and a graduate of Cheltenham High (Montgomery County, Pa.) Chuck's email . . . chucklang@hotmail.com
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July 22, 2022 CHUCKBIT
STATE
RECORD-HOLDER"
Dr. Rachel Laws Myers
(pictured
here
), a
2002 graduate of Cheltenham High School, can easily
rattle off the games she lost in her storied four-year
scholastic basketball career since the losses are few
and far between. With 125 team victories from 1999 to
2002, Rachel holds the
Pennsylvania state girls'
scholastic record for most wins by a four-year starter
.
The Cheltenham High Lady Panthers went (31-2) in 1999,
(32-1) in 2000, (31-2) in 2001, and (31-2) in 2002 for a
combined record of (125-7) during Rachel's four years as
a starter. That computes to over 31 wins-per-year and a
win percentage of .946. Rachel scored over 1,000 career
points and grabbed over 1,000 career rebounds in helping
the Lady Panthers win one state title and three District
One crowns. After graduating from Cheltenham in 2002,
she matriculated at Binghamton University in New York,
and was inducted into the university's Athletic Hall of
Fame in 2016.
July 18. 2022 CHUCKBIT "Monday Flashback"
Last night, was the start of the 57th
annual Major League Baseball Draft which began in 1965.
In the 1966 draft, with the second pick in the first
round, the Kansas City Athletics chose an outfielder
from Arizona State by the name of
Reggie Jackson
(pictured
here
).
The 1964 Cheltenham High School graduate was chosen
second overall in the draft, behind 17-year-old
California high school catcher
Steve Chilcott
who
was chosen by the New York Mets. Steve Chilcott played
in the minor leagues from 1966 to 1972, but never made
it to the big leagues. He is one of only three players
drafted first overall in the Major League Baseball Draft
to never play in the major leagues. Reggie Jackson and
current Philadelphia Phillies TV announcer
Ben Davis
are
tied for the distinction of being the highest draft pick
of a Philadelphia-area player. Ben, a Malvern Prep
product, was chosen overall number two by the San Diego
Padres in 1995.
July 13, 2022 CHUCKBIT "COACHING IS A FAMILY BUSINESS"
Laura Harper
,
a 2004 graduate of Cheltenham High School and a 2008
University of Maryland alumna, was recently named the new
head women's basketball coach at
Towson University
in
Towson, Maryland. A rising star in the coaching profession,
Laura comes to Towson after a two-year stint as head coach
at
Coppin State University
in Baltimore. In
2021-2022, she guided Coppin State to one of the largest
turnarounds in the nation and earned Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference
"Coach of the Year"
honors in just her
second year at the helm. Laura is pictured
here
on the right with her father
Haviland "Biff" Harper
,
the former Central High boys' basketball coach, and her
brother
Will Harper
(Central High "Class of 2000).
Haviland, a 6-7 forward at both Central High and George
Washington University, racked up 17 double-doubles in his
career at GW from 1972 to 1976, scoring 1,050 points and
grabbing 547 rebounds. His son Will played for him at
Central High, while his daughter Laura is the all-time
leading scorer, boys or girls, in Cheltenham High history
with 2009 career points. At Cheltenham, Laura was All-Area,
All-State, and an All-American selection. She matriculated
at the University of Maryland where she led the Terrapins to
the 2006 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball championship
with a 78-75 victory over Duke. She was named
MVP of the
Final Four.
After graduating Maryland, Laura went on to
play professionally in the WNBA and overseas.
Jun
21, 2022 Chuckbit
Sixty-eight years ago, in June of 1954,
Gene Orowitz
(pictured
here
,
more commonly listed as Horowitz), an athlete at
Collingswood High School in Southern New Jersey, uncorked a
javelin throw of 193 feet, 4-inches to set a state-record at
the New Jersey Track and Field championships. In 1954,
Gene's throw was the
longest by a high schooler in the
entire United States.
Orowitz's athletic prowess earned
him a track and field scholarship to the University of
Southern California, but he tore his shoulder ligaments,
putting an end to his days as a college athlete and student.
Gene then took a job as a gas station attendant opposite
Warner Bros. Studios where he was noticed by a local talent
agent. The agent convinced him to give show-business a try.
Following the agent's advice, Gene selected a new name from
the phone book and became known as
Michael Landon
(pictured
here
).
And as they say, "The rest is history!!" Landon is best
known for his acting roles as little Joe Cartwright in
"Bonanza" (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in "Little House on
the Prairie" (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in "Highway to
Heaven" (1984-1989). Michael Landon appeared on the cover of
"TV Guide" 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball,
June 10, 2022 Chuckbit "A Rising Star" It's always very difficult to predict the manifest destiny of one so
young, but 5-9, 170-pound Millville High School freshman wide
receiver Lotzeir
Brooks (pictured here )
appears to have the right stuff. In his inaugural season, the
speedy ninth-grader caught 36 passes for 957 yards, breaking the
Philadelphia-area (southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey)
freshman receiving mark of 861 yards set by Pennsauken High's
Ejani Shakir in 2019. Brooks caught 14 touchdown passes last
season in addition to rushing for three TDs and returning one
kickoff for a score. The 14-year-old led his Millville football
team to the South Jersy Group 4 Regional Championship, while
securing a spot on the All-State team as a freshman. The best
is yet to come!!!
May 18, 2022 Chuckbit Reggie Jackson, Cheltenham High School's most well-known alumnus,
celebrates his 76th birthday today (May 18). The 1964 CHS
graduate ,who grew up at 149 Greenwood Ave. in Wyncote across
from the Jenkintown Train Station, is pictured here talking to members of the Cheltenham High football team. Reggie
Jackson is an intelligent, outspoken, and often controversial
figure who was highly recognizable, whether it be for his famous
left-handed swing or from his candy bar. He is an inspiration
that a baseball player can be respected, successful, and clout
563 home runs without the aid of anabolic steroids or other
performance enhancing drugs. The legacy of the Major League
Baseball and Cheltenham High School Alumni Association Hall of
Famer is that of a winner. Reggie played 21 seasons in the Big
Leagues and reached the post-season in 11 of them, winning six
divisional pennants and five World Series. Happy Birthday
Reggie!!!!
May 16, 2022 Chuckbit Pictured here in this 2014 photo at a Serbia market is Denver Nuggets Director
of Scouting Jim
Clibanoff with
then unheralded European basketball player Nikola Jokic (left)
and his brother Nemanja. For the second consecutive year, Nikola,
the Denver Nuggets 6-11 center, was named the 2022 NBA MVP last
week. With vision like Magic Johnson, offensive tricks like
Larry Bird, and a humble confidence like Tim Duncan, Jokic has
morphed into one of the most complete players in the game. As
the Director of Scouting for the Nuggets, Jim Clibanoff, a 1985
Cheltenham High School graduate, was instrumental in bringing
Jokic to the United States and Denver. "Clib," a lifelong
hardcore basketball junkie, ran a private college hoop scouting
service for 17 years, evaluating future NBA players, before
joining the Denver Nuggets front office in 2013. Jokic and New
York Knicks living legend Willis Reed are the only
second-round draft choices ever to win the NBA MVP. The last
Philadelphia 76er to win the coveted award was Allen Iverson in
2001, while Overbrook High product Wilt Chamberlain won
it four times in 1960, 1966, 1967, and 1968. The record for most
NBA MVP awards is six by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who was
known as Lew Alcindor when he attended elementary school at the
now defunct Holy Providence Boarding School in Bensalem,
Pennsylvania.
May 2, 2022 CHUCKBIT "A NATURAL RIVALRY"
On Thursday, September 1, 2022, the
Cheltenham
High
School football team will play at
Northeast High
in
Philadelphia. Even though Northeast High is located on Cottman
Avenue, less than two miles from the Cheltenham Township border,
the Panthers and the Vikings have not met on the gridiron in
64
years.
In 1958, Northeast defeated Cheltenham, 40-14. The
last and only time the Panthers have beaten the Vikings was in
1936 when they won, 7-6. Back then, Northeast High was located
in North Philadelphia at 8th Street and Lehigh Avenue. Northeast
High, which has been playing interscholastic football since
1892, leads all high schools in the Philadelphia area
(southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey) with
15
graduates
who have gone on to play in the
NFL
.
April 27, 2022 CHUCKBIT The greatest
football player in Paulsboro High School history is replacing the
greatest coach in program history. Kevin Harvey (pic here ), considered
by many to be the most accomplished player ever in South Jersey
gridiron history, will succeed Glenn Howard , his former head
coach at Paulsboro. Howard, a Paulsboro graduate himself, who played
in the USFL, compiled a career record of 316-70 (81.9 %) with
14 sectional titles in his 35-year career. At Paulsboro, Harvey
started at quarterback and defensive back all four years. His record
in those four years was (43-1), only losing to Sterling, 14-13,
during his freshman season in 1992. Kevin, a former Temple
University quarterback, netted 101 touchdowns and 656 career
points at Paulsboro, including 4,016 yards rushing and 3,844 yards
passing. For the past 14 years, he has been an assistant at
Paulsboro to his mentor Glenn Howard.
April 12, 2022 CHUCKBIT
H
ow
many high school football players can say they played for their mother
in high school? Such is the case of Cheltenham High School junior
defensive end Kion Wright who is coached by his mother and Panther
defensive line coach Star Wright (pic
here
).
The 6-3, 230-pound Kion, who played for Northeast High last season, is
one of the top edge rushers in the state and is being recruited
nationally with already close to 20 Division 1 scholarship offers. His
mother, Star, was hired last season by head coach Troy Gore after he was
selected to head the Panther football program. Star is the first female
football coach at CHS since the inception of the program in 1901. Star
lettered in swimming, basketball, and track at Simon Gratz High and
competed in track and swimming at the Ohio State University. She
currently owns and plays defensive end for the Philadelphia Phantomz, a
professional women's tackle football team. Star also founded the Star
Wright Foundation whose mission is to offer sustainable programs that
impact socio-economic advancement, human rights, education and gun
violence protection. Star has travelled to Africa and taught American
football to both men and women.
April 3, 2022 CHUCKBIT On March 25, it was reported on Ted's website that Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart, a small Catholic school from suburban Pittsburgh, defeated
Constitution, 92-71, in the Class 2A final, tying West Philadelphia
High's state record of 68 consecutive wins from 1976-1978. The
Speedboys were coached by former West Philadelphia High and Temple
University guard Joe Goldenberg (pictured here ).
Here are the 12 longest win streaks in Pennsylvania high school boys'
basketball history:
Longest Pennsylvania Win
Streaks
68---West Philadelphia from
1976-78
68---Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart from 2020-2022
(active)
66---West End St. James from
1950-52, school closed in 1991
61---Allentown High from 1946-47,
now William Allen
61---Chester High from 2010-12
59---Carbondale Area from 1993-94
57---York Catholic from 1989-91
56---Glen Mills School from
1923-1926
54---Darby-Colwyn from 1961-63,
now Penn Wood
53---Montrose High from 1963-65
52---Uniontown from 1964-65
52---Washington High from 1983-85
(western part of state, not Philly's Washington)
April 1, 2022 CHUCKBIT According to Ted's stats, Overbrook High's Wilt
Chamberlain scored
844 points during the 19-game, 1954-55 season for a scoring average of 44.4 points-per-game.
Wilt had the highest scoring average per game in the city and in the state,
but he didn't lead the country in scoring. He was second to Dr.
Larry Huston (pictured here )
of Savannah High School in Ohio. The 6-6 center scored 1,221 points in 27
games for an average of 45.2 points-per-game
to lead the nation. Larry graduated from Savannah High in 1955 as
valedictorian of his class and matriculated at Ohio State University. Larry
was a four-year starter on the freshmen and varsity teams at Ohio State and
served as team captain in 1959. At Ohio State he played with former Boston
Celtics great Larry
Siegfried and Frank Howard, who
was an All-American in both college basketball and baseball before starting
his Major League Baseball career. Dr. Larry Huston went on to become a
pharmacist and earned his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from Kansas
University in 1974. He passed suddenly on July 30, 2007.
March 30, 2022 CHUCKBIT
Pictured
here
is
Cheltenham High School
head boys' basketball coach
Patrick
Fleury
. In just four years at the helm, the former Cheltenham High
point-guard has taken the boys' program to new heights. This past
season, the Panthers won the overall Suburban One championship, set a
boys' school record of 30 wins, went unbeaten at home, and were the
first boys' team in school history to advance to the Elite Eight of the
PIAA tournament since the 1994 squad. In four seasons, Patrick has
coached the Panthers to
87 wins
. By comparison, the legendary
Paul
Westhead
, who attended both West Catholic and Malvern Prep, coached
for four years at Cheltenham, compiling
66 wins
from 1964 to
1968. Fleury currently has a record of
(87-17)
which computes to
an
.837
winning percentage. He has the highest winning percentage
of any
active boys' coach
in the Philadelphia area (southeastern
Pennsylvania and South Jersey) who has coached
at least 100 games
.
March 28, 2022 CHUCKBIT
This past scholastic
football season, Woodrow Wilson senior quarterback
Devin Kargman
(pic
here
)
threw for 2,800 yards to finish his career with
8,005 yards
, the
third best in South Jersey history. In 2018, Devin's big brother,
Nick
Kargman
(pic
here
),
finished his career at Pitman High and Woodrow Wilson with
8,136
yards
which is second best in South Jersey history behind Timber
Creek's
Devin Leary
who threw for
9,672 yards
from
2014-17. The Kargman brothers are the
first brother duo
in
Philadelphia area history (southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey)
to
both throw for over 8,000 yards
. In fact, they are only the
11th
brother combination in USA history
to accomplish that feat. Devin
has signed with Kent State, while Nick has just transferred from Western
Kentucky to Wagner. Even the
Manning brothers, Peyton and Eli
,
didn't each throw for over 8,000 yards. Peyton Manning threw for
7,190 career yards
at Newman High School in New Orleans from
1991-93, while kid brother Eli threw for
7,268 yards
at Newman
from 1996-98. The national record for brothers is held by the Mauk
brothers from Kenton High in Ohio.
Ben Mauk
threw for
17,364
career yards
from 1999-2002, while younger brother Maty threw for
18,932 yards
from 2008-11. They are number 1 and number 2 on the USA
career passing yardage list.
Feb. 27, 2022 CHUCKBIT Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (21-0)
defeated Sto-Rox High, 87-44, on Friday night to run its winning streak to 61 straight
games. They have the longest
active boys' win streak in
the USA. The small Pittsburgh-area Catholic school has won back-to-back PIAA
Class 2A championships (pic here )..
The Chargers' 61 consecutive victories ranks third
all-time in
state history behind West
Philadelphia and West
End St. James High of Pittsburgh .
West Philly holds the state record, winning 68 straight
from 1976 to 1978 and West End St. James won 66 games
in a row in the early 1950s.
February 10, 2022 CHCKBIT Egg Harbor Township High pounded previously unbeaten
St. Augustine, 76-51, last night. This means Cheltenham
High (20-0) is
the only
unbeaten boys' basketball team in
the Philadelphia
area (southeastern
Pennsylvania and South Jersey). According to Max Preps, they are one of
only six high school boys' teams in Pennsylvania with a perfect record.
Cheltenham has two games remaining, against Springfield Montco tonight and
Lower Moreland tomorrow. With victories in those two games, the Panthers
will have their first undefeated regular season in 54
years .
In 1968, Cheltenham went 21-0 during the regular season. That team starred Craig Littlepage and
was coached by West Catholic and Malvern Prep graduate Paul
Westhead .
February 1, 2022 CHUCKBIT The Bengals' Eli
Apple ,
formerly known as Eli
Woodard at
Eastern High, becomes the second All-South
Jersey defensive back from Eastern
High to
make the Super Bowl. Former defensive back Logan Ryan from Eastern
played in Super Bowls XLIX and LI for the Patriots, winning both games.
Logan was All-South Jersey first-team DB in 2008, while Eli was first-team
DB in 2011. Both played for then-coach Dan Spittal . Pic taken in 2018, when they hosted a clinic at Eastern. Click here .
January 10, 2022 CHUCKBIT Last March, Constitution
High of
Philadelphia lost to Our
Lady of the Sacred Heart from
Coraopolis, Pa., 62-49, in the PIAA
Class 2 state final in
Hershey. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart is a small Catholic school outside of
Pittsburgh. They have won 47
straight games
and currently have the longest
active win streak in the USA .
They might even challenge West
Philadelphia's state
record of 68 consecutive
wins. In last year's state final, junior Jake
DiMichele of
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was high scorer with 21 points. He recently
went over 2,000 points this season. His name might sound familiar to
Philadelphia sports fans. His cousin, Adam DiMichele was
a former star quarterback at Temple University and captained the Owls in
2007 and 2008. Finally, the team with the second longest active win streak
in the nation is a local team---- Camden
High with 43 straight
victories. They should beat Eastern Regional for Number 44 on Tuesday, but
will likely have a difficult time against national power Montverde Academy
who they play Thursday night in Trenton.
JULY 29 CHUCKBIT
"WEDNESDAY REWIND"
Fifty years ago, in
September of 1970, rising junior pitcher
Brad Tanner
of
Germantown Academy won the
Blue Cross Pitchometer championship
at
Connie Mack Stadium. Tanner, a 6-4, 180-pound righthander, bested six
other finalists with his winning toss of 81.8 miles-per-hour and was
presented the Herbert Pennock Memorial Trophy and a wrist watch by
Philadelphia Phillies manager Frank Lucchesi. Brad Tanner and
Tim
Lewis (pictured here )
were
the star pitchers on the
1972 Germantown Academy baseball team, as
coached by former Phillies star Robin Roberts,
that went
22-1
overall
(1-0 loss to North Catholic in late March) and
10-0
in the
Inter-Ac League. Tanner and Lewis each had a 5-0 pitching record in
1972. The G.A. offense was led by "Jr. Whiz Kids"
Tom Simmons (Curt's
son)
and
Dan Roberts (Robin's son),
who combined to hit over
.500 in league play. Five players from the 1972 Inter-Ac champions went
on to play at Division One baseball schools.
JULY 20 CHUCKBIT
From 2008 to 2011, Allentown
Central Catholic quarterback
Brendan Nosovitch
(pictured
here
)
put up mirage-like passing and rushing statistics. For his
record-breaking career, he passed for
9,249 yards
and rushed for
3,628
yards
, good for
12,877 yards of total offense
. He threw for
106
touchdowns
and rushed for
62
scores. In his sophomore and junior seasons,
he
threw for over 2,000 yards and ran for over 1,000 yards
. In a
2010 PIAA Class AAA semifinal against Archbishop Wood which was covered
by Ted, (Website report is
here
under Dec. 10). Nosovitch was a one-man wrecking crew in Allentown
Central Catholic's 49-27 victory over Wood. Accounting for
602 yards
of total offense
, Brendan was
17-for-28 for 419 yards
and
five
touchdowns
through the air. On the ground he rushed
21 times for 183 yards
and
two
touchdowns.
Brendan Nosovitch matriculated at the
University of South Carolina
in
2012, where he played sparingly at quarterback, before transferring to
Boston
College
where he saw limited action as a tight-end. An excellent
student, Brendan earned both his Bachelor of Science in Finance and MBA
from Boston College. He is now a wealth management advisor based in the
Allentown area.
Bonus Nugget:
At last night's Phillies-Orioles exhibition game, the
home plate umpire might have looked familiar to some people. He was 1995
Hatboro-Horsham graduate Alan Porter (pictured
here
),
who was a first-team All-Area baseball player in 1995. He went on to
play for former Upper Dublin High School history teacher Lou Lombardo at
Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell where he was the team
MVP.
JULY 11 CHUCKBIT
Pictured
here
is former
St. Joseph's Prep
and
Timber Creek High School
record-breaking
wide receiver
Cameron Chambers
. Cameron graduated from Michigan
State University early in three years, and is now attending the
Michigan
State College of Law
. In his scholastic football career, he
accumulated
3,084 career receiving yards
. Cameron is one of only
five
receivers
in Philadelphia-area (southeastern Pennsylvania and South
Jersey) to attain over 3,000 yards of career receiving yardage. The
3,000-yard career receiving list is here:
1.Dapree Bryant,
Coatesville, 2019,
3,579 yards
2.Justin Jaworski, Perkiomen
Valley, 2016,
3,270 yards
3.Kennedy Poles, Penn Wood,
2018,
3,102 yards
4.Isaac Irby, Holy Cross,
1999,
3,088 yards
5.Cameron Chambers, S.J.
Prep, Timber Creek, 2015,
3,084 yards
JULY 10 CHUCKBIT
"FRIDAY FLASHBACK"
Thirty years ago, on
October 6, 1990, senior quarterback
Gabe Infante
(pictured
here
)
rushed for three touchdowns and returned an interception for another to
help lead
Memorial High School
of West New York, New Jersey past
Emerson, 28-8, in a Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association
football game. Infante scored on runs of 28 yards and 1 yard to give
Memorial a 13-0 lead at halftime. Gabe added a 1-yard touchdown rush in
the third quarter and capped his efforts with a 20-yard return of an
interception for a score. Infante finished the game with
165 yards on
10
carries
. Gabe was a
three-sport athlete
at Memorial
High, playing football, basketball, and baseball. Even though he was the
best quarterback in Hudson County his senior year, he was selected to
the New Jersey All-State team as a defensive back, the position he
played in college at Holy Cross. Gabe, the former head coach at St.
Joseph's Prep is now the running backs coach at Temple University. He is
also a graduate of New York Law School and is a licensed attorney in New
Jersey. So was the Prep's previous coach, Gil Brooks. How many high
schools can make that claim: Two straight lawyer/coaches?
JUNE 30 CHUCKBIT Pictured here is former LaSalle
High School ,
Syracuse University, and current Indianapolis Colts linebacker Zaire
Franklin .
Zaire, who graduated from LaSalle in 2014, was drafted by the Indianapolis
Colts in the seventh round, 235th overall in the 2018 NFL draft. He made his
first NFL start at linebacker for the Colts on September 23, 2018 against
his hometown Philadelphia
Eagles .
The Eagles won the game, 20-16, when Derek Barnett tripped up Colts'
quarterback Andrew Luck in the red zone to secure the victory. In his rookie
season, Zaire appeared in all 16 regular season games. At Syracuse
University, Zaire was a two-time
All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection ,
and he was only the second
three-time captain in
Orange football history and the first since 1896. Ted;s Note :
Zaire began his high school years at Franklin Learning Center. The
Bobcats had no footbal; team. He was a sub on the baseball team. Click here for a page that includes FLC's team pic. Tenth team down that page.,
JUNE 26 CHUCKBIT
"
IN REMEMBRANCE"
(April 19, 1935----November
19, 2019)
Pictured
here
is 1952 Cheltenham High School graduate Lieutenant Colonel Tony
Stremic. The Glenside native is one of the greatest two-sport
athletes ever to come out of Cheltenham High. After graduating CHS
in 1952, Tony prepped at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania,
before matriculating at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Tony participated in both wrestling and football at the Academy.
Wrestling at 191 pounds, Tony came within a whisker of winning an
NCAA Division I wrestling championship in 1957. In the 191-pound
final, he lost to the University of Pittsburgh's Ron Schirf by the
slimmest of margins. Tony and Schirf wrestled to a draw through two
overtime periods, and Schirf was declared the winner on a
controversial 2-1 split referees' decision. On the gridiron, Tony
was an Honorable Mention All-American at the guard position, leading
the Midshipmen to a (8-1-1) record in 1957 and an invite to the
January 1, 1958 Cotton Bowl game against Rice University. Before a
crowd of 75,500, Navy defeated Rice, 20-7, on New Year's Day, and
Tony was named Cotton Bowl MVP. Navy finished ranked fifth in the
nation for the 1957 college football season. Tony graduated from the
U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree in
engineering in the top 10% of his class. At his graduation, Tony
was selected as the top athlete in the Naval Academy's senior
class. Mr. Stremic also attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, CA where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering in 1966. Upon retirement from the Marine
Corps, Mr. Stremic was a program manager and professional services
consultant in Weapons Systems Acquisition and Information Systems
for several firms in the Northern Virginia area until full
retirement in 2002. Military awards include the Meritorious Service
Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal,
Vietnam Service Medal, and Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation
Gallantry Cross. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Stremic was also inducted
into the Naval Academy Athletic Hall of Fame for both football and
wrestling. R.I.P. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Stremic!!!
JUNE 21 CHUCKBIT
"MORAL VICTORY FOR CHELTENHAM"
Almost exactly 100 years ago on Saturday, September
25, 1920, the Cheltenham High School football team travelled to
Harrisburg's City Island Park Field to play powerful Harrisburg Tech in
the season opener for both teams. In 1919, Harrisburg Tech (pictured
here
)
finished the season with a (12-0) record, outscoring their opponents an
amazing 701 points to 0. Harrisburg Tech defeated Portland, Maine, 56-0,
in a post-season game, and Tech was declared the national
champions after the 1919 season. The last time Harrisburg Tech was
scored upon was in 1918. They entered the Cheltenham game with a 24-game
winning streak, outscoring their opponents, 1,378 points to 16.
Cheltenham lost the game, 31-6, but ended up with a moral victory,
scoring a touchdown on a passing play and becoming the first team to
score on Harrisburg Tech in two years.
JUNE 15 CHUCKBIT Congratulations to
1972 Cheltenham High School graduate and Montgomery County coaches Hall of
Famer Virginia
"Ginny" Hofmann (pictured here )
on her retirement from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington. Ginny has been
a teacher, coach, and athletic administrator at Germantown Academy for the
last 44
years. She
started there as a coach and teacher fresh out of West Chester University in
1976. Ginny, who played field hockey and lacrosse at Cheltenham High in
addition to b eing
a member of the swim team, coached field hockey and lacrosse at Germantown
Academy. She coached field hockey for 36 years, winning 363 games and five
Inter-Ac League championships. As the head lacrosse coach for 39 years,
Ginny won 370 games and seven Inter-Ac titles in addition to producing 16
All-Americans. Her record as a two-sport coach, a rarity in today's world,
remains unmatched. Happy Retirement Ginny!!!
MAY 26 CHUCKBIT Sixty years ago on Friday, November 11, 1960, Archmere
Academy from
Claymont, Delaware blanked Friends
Central ,
28-0, in Wynnewood to record their first unbeaten-untied season (8-0-0) in
17 years. The Archmere Academy Archers were the only scholastic football
team in the state in 1960 to finish the season with an unblemished record.
Senior halfback Joe
Biden (pictured here )
was the standout star in the Archers' final game of the season. He tallied
three touchdowns on runs of 4, 12, and 45 yards. Joe, who finished the
season one of the leading scorers in the state with 60 points, matriculated
at the University
of Delaware in 1961 where
he played freshman football. -- APRIL 19 CHUCKBIT
"SUNDAY FLASHBACK"
Fifty-one years ago in 1969,
Northeast High graduate
and former
Cheltenham High School physical education, health, and driver's
education teacher
Steve
Kolinsky
(pictured
here
)
led the Double-A level Eastern League with a .335 batting average, but
because of a season-ending shoulder injury, Steve was 35 at-bats short
of being eligible to win the batting title. In fact, if it had not been
for the shoulder injury which
required
surgery, Steve Kolinsky, an outfielder/first baseman for the Reading
Phillies, would have made it to the "Big Leagues." As it turned out,
Major League Baseball's loss would enormously benefit the students of
Cheltenham High School for over 30 years. The always affable Kolinsky
coached the Panther baseball team for 14 years and was an assistant
football coach at Cheltenham for many years. Steve played shortstop at
Northeast High and centerfield for James "Skip" Wilson's Temple
University Owls before playing in the minor leagues from 1964-1971.
-- APRIL 16 CHUCKBIT
"THROWBACK THURSDAY"
Forty-three years ago on
Sunday, April 3, 1977, the Publics and Non-Publics played to an 8-8 tie
in the
Philadelphia High School Football City All-Star game
at
Northeast High before an announced crowd of 13,402. History will show
that it's the only tie in the 45 games played in the series, but more
importantly
Mike Paulone
(pictured
here
)
of the
Pennsylvania School of the Deaf
became the
first
deaf athlete to quarterback a hearing team in USA high school football
history
. Paulone, the MVP of the Non-Publics, completed 5-of-10
passes for 46 yards including a 17-yard touchdown to Father Judge's
Paul
Lafferty
for the touchdown that cut the Public League's lead to 8-6
with 8 minutes left to play in the game. Mike then calmly stood in the
pocket and hit Bishop Neumann's
Jerry Smith
for the two-point
conversion that tied the score. Paulone completed a high school athletic
career at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in which he won
16
varsity letters
, was a
third-team All-City Philadelphia "Daily
News"quarterback,
an
outstanding hurdler
, and a
2,000-point
scorer
in basketball. He was a Deaf High School All-American in
football, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Paulone
matriculated at
Gallaudet University
in Washington, D.C., for the
hearing impaired, where he played both football and baseball. Mike chose
to labor in the field of education, where he is a physical education
teacher and coach for several sports at the
Indiana School for the
Deaf
in Indianapolis.
- APRIL 14 CHUCKBIT
"THEN AND NOW"
Forty-nine years ago on Cinco de Mayo May 5, 1971,
Eastern Regional
High School
pitcher
Dave Wyche
(pictured
here
)
pitched the
first
perfect game in Eastern High history
and
only the
fourth
ever reported in the South Jersey area. Dave, a
1971 graduate of Eastern Regional, struck out five and aided his own
cause with a double in Eastern's
16-0 victory over Pennsauken Tech
.
The game only went five innings, because Pennsauken Tech manager Pete
Ehrmann requested that home plate umpire Larry Mauriello call the game.
Wyche, a 1975 graduate of then Glassboro State, where he majored in
Journalism/Communications, covered high school sports for many years in
the South Jersey area. Dave was a scholastic sportswriter at the
"Burlington County Times" and the "Camden Courier-Post" in addition to
being Sports Editor at the "Gloucester County Times." Dave (pictured
here
)
is now the Shared Services Coordinator and Economic Development Manager
at the Burlington County Bridge Commissi
on.
- APRIL 10 CHUCKBIT With the post on Tuesday, April 7 about the thoroughbred
Secretariat (pictured here in the forefront) being an early adopter of social distancing, several
readers inquired whether Secretariat ever raced in the Philadelphia area. The
answer is yes!! On
November 18, 1972, Secretariat made his first and only Philadelphia-area
appearance, winning the Garden State Futurity Stakes by almost four lengths
at Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Close to 20,000
horse racing fans braved the rain and cold on that day to see Secretariat do
his thing. After the Cherry Hill victory, Secretariat was named the two-year
old "Horse of the Year." After 58 years of thoroughbred and harness racing,
Garden State Park closed on May 3, 2001. It is now the site of a high-end,
mixed-used "town center" development of stores, restaurants, apartments,
townhouses, and condominiums. Click here for a video from the 1973 Belmont Stakes. - APRIL 8 CHUCKBIT
"QUITE A FEAT"
Richard Zindel
, a 1925 Cheltenham High
School graduate, was captain of the school basketball team and a Panther
baseball legend. In one game, Cheltenham was losing in the fifth inning
when Mr. Zindel was sent in as a relief pitcher. He proceeded to record
21
consecutive strikeouts
, setting not only a school and Pennsylvania
state record, but also a national mark for consecutive strikeouts in a
game. This amazing feat earned him the nickname
"Smoke."
His
national standard lasted for
48 years
until 1973 when
Jim
Peterson
of Sonora High School in Orange County, California struck
out 22 batters in a row.
- APRIL 3 CHUCKBIT
"IN MEMORIAM"
(1953---2013)
Pictured here is the late Central Bucks East High teacher and football coach
Larry Greene
,
a 1971 graduate of Cheltenham High School. Larry passed on this date
seven years ago. Until he saw a horse in the hallway during his first
year as a special-education teacher at rural CB East, Larry considered
his most acute moment of culture shock to be his first day as a student
at Cheltenham High in 1968. He had moved to Che ltenham
from the town of Marshfield on Massachusetts's Irish-heavy South Shore
after his father Dr. Lawrence Greene had taken the job as Cheltenham
Township School District's new superintendent. From a small-town school,
Larry felt overwhelmed at first by Cheltenham's size and diversity when
compared to Marshfield. But Larry found his niche on coach Harry
Hollihan's football team as a three-year starter at defensive back. High
school football gave him an identity, a way to adjust to his new school
and to form and sustain friendships. He never forgot that. Larry won 125
games as a football coach at CB East and Pennsbury High, but the wins
were secondary to him. Larry believed that football taught many life
lessons and his passion for coaching and teaching were evident in
everything he did. Larry passed on April 3, 2013 after a valiant
eight-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. He
touched a lot of people's lives in a very special way for many years.
R.I.P. Larry!!
APRIL 2 CHUCKBIT
"THROWBACK THURSDAY"
Forty-nine years ago on September 18, 1971, Cheltenham High School
running back
Calvin Christopher
(pictured
here
)
rushed for 183 yards and two touchdowns in Cheltenham's 15-14 victory
over Bensalem. Of historical significance, it was the first high school
football game ever covered by
Ted Silary
who was working for
Montgomery Newspapers back then. Calvin Christopher was the first
football player Ted interviewed in his "storied career." Later that
season, Calvin became the first running back in Cheltenham High history
to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season, breaking baseball Hall of
Famer
Reggie Jackson's
single season record of 953 yards set in
1963. In fact, "Mr. October" would have broken 1,000 yards in 1963, but
he was stretchered out and taken in an ambulance to the hospital after
he broke his collarbone in the first quarter of the season finale
against archrival Abington High.
MARCH 27 CHUCKBIT
Pictured here is Cheltenham High School senior point guard Zahree Harrison who is the first
boys' basketball player in southeastern Pennsylvania history to be a member
of both a PIAA District I and District 12 basketball team that reached the
district championship game . The first game of this season, Zahree went
down with a knee injury that required season-ending surgery, yet he still
has m ade
a huge contribution to the District I runner-up Panthers this year, becoming
a student-assistant coach for Cheltenham High head coach Pede Fleury. As a
freshman in 2017, before transferring to his hometown Cheltenham High,
Zahree played on the District 12 and state champion Archbishop Wood High
basketball team that featured current Villanova University star guard Collin
Gillespie. Even though he was unable to perform this season, Zahree's name
is still entered in the official scorebook every game. In fact, the coaching
staff honored him for all that he has done for the program by inserting him
in the final regular-season home game against Hatboro-Horsham. The Panthers
purposely took a 10-second violation to get him safely out of the game. The
Division I St. Francis Loretto University signee only played two seasons for
the Panthers, but he will go down as one of the best ever to put on a
Cheltenham uniform.
MARCH 23 CHUCKBIT Pictured here is Rancocas Valley grad Franco Harris, the most accomplished NFL player from South Jersey.
Updated NFL Players List from South Jersey
Flipper Anderson β Paulsboro (LA Rams, Indianapolis WR)
Clifton Anderson-Cape May City (NY Giants, Chicago Cardinals,
OE)
Ryquell Armstead β Millville (Jacksonville, RB)
Anthony Averett β Woodbury (Baltimore Ravens DB)
Eli Apple - Eastern (NY Giants CB)
John Aveni β Glassboro (Chicago K)
Rashad Baker β Woodrow Wilson (Buffalo DB)
Brandon Bell β Oakcrest (Cincinnati LB)
Bob Bell - Bordentown Military (Detroit, St. Louis Cardinals
DL)
Randy Beverly β Wildwood (NY Jets DB)
Cory Bird β Oakcrest (Indianapolis DB)
Gary Brackett β Glassboro (Indianapolis LB)
A.B. Brown β Salem (NY Jets RB)
John Brown β Camden (Cleveland T)
George Burrell β Kingsway (Denver DB)
Greg Buttle β Mainland (NY Jets LB)
Damiere Byrd β Timber Creek (Carolina WR)
Joe Callahan β Holy Spirit (Green Bay QB)
Chris Canty β Eastern (New England, Seattle, New Orleans DB)
Sean Chandler β Camden (NY Giants DB)
Deron Cherry β Palmyra (K.C. DB)
Stan Clayton β Cherry Hill East (Atlanta OL)
Corey Clement β Glassboro (Eagles RB)
Avon Cobourne β Holy Cross (Detroit RB)
Andre Collins β Cinnaminson (Washington, Cincinnati LB)
Doug Colman β Ocean City (NY Giants, Tennessee LB)
Wayne Colman β Atlantic City (Saints, Eagles DB)
Bill Conaty β Camden Catholic β Buffalo C)
Paul Costa β Bordentown Military (Buffalo TE-T)
Phil Costa β Holy Cross (Dallas OL)
Brad Costello β Holy Cross (Cincinnati P)
Damien Covington β Overbrook (Buffalo LB)
Jack Crawford β St. Augustine (Oakland, Dallas, Atlanta DL)
Dave Crossan β Collingswood (Washington C)
Mike Curcio β Oakcrest (Eagles LB)
Mike Daniels β Highland (Green Bay DL)
Donovin Darius β Woodrow Wilson (Jacksonville S)
Julβien Davenport β Paulsboro (Houston OL)
Ron Davis- Deptford (St. Louis Cardinals DE)
Ron Dayne - Overbrook (NJ Giants, Denver RB)
Jamil Demby β Vineland (LA Rams OL)
Lee DeRamus β Edgewood (New Orleans WR)
Mike Devlin β Cherokee (Buffalo, Arizona C)
Ryan DβImperio β Washington Township (Minnesota FB)
Darren Drozdov β Oakcrest (Denver DL)
Willie Drewrey β N.Burlington (Houston, T.Bay WR)
Joe Duckworth- Bordentown Military (Washington O-end)
Bill Duff β Delran (Cleveland DL)
Doug Easlick β Cherokee (Miami FB)
Chuck Faucette β Willingboro (San Diego LB)
Joe Fields β Glo. Catholic (NY Jets C)
Joe Flacco β Audubon (Baltimore QB)
Glenn Foley β C.H. East (NY Jets, Seattle QB)
Gene Foster β Pennsville (San Diego RB)
Lorenzo Freeman β Woodrow Wilson (Steelers DL)
Walter French-Moorestown (Pottsville, Rochester, RB)
Irving Fryar β Ran. Valley (N. England, Miami, Eagles, Wash.
WR)
KaβLial Glaud β Winslow Township (Tampa Bay LB)
Matt Gono β Cinnaminson (Atlanta OL)
Bubba Green β Millville (Baltimore DL)
Ron Gassert β Rancocas Valley, Bordentown Military Institute
(Green Bay T)
Jamaal Green β Woodrow Wilson (Eagles, DE)
William Green β Holy Spirit (Cleveland RB)
Shonn Greene β Winslow Township (NY Jets RB)
Anthony Griggs β Kennedy (Eagles, Browns LB)
Billy Griggs β Pennsauken (NY Jets TE)
David Griggs β Pennsauken (Miami, S. Diego LB)
Jonathan Grimes β Paul VI (NY Jets, Houston RB)
Chris Hall β Pemberton (Dallas S)
Dino Hall β Pleasantville (Cleveland RB)
Roscoe Hansen β Holy Spirit (Eagles T)
Kelvin Harmon β Palmyra (Washington WR)
Marvin Hargrove β Willingboro (Eagles WR)
Al Harris β Rancocas Valley (Chicago, Eagles DL)
Franco Harris β Rancocas Valley (Pittsburgh RB)
Mike Haynes β Northern Burlington (Chicago DL)
George Hegamin β Camden (Dallas, Eagles, Tampa Bay OL)
Nate Hemsley β Delran (Dallas, Carolina LB)
Dwayne Hendricks β Millville (N.Y. Giants DL)
Kevin Hickman β Holy Cross (Detroit TE)
Dwight Hicks β Pennsauken (San Francisco DB)
Wesley Hills β Wildwood (Detroit RB)
Gerald Hodges β Paulsboro (Minnesota LB)
Ka'Dar Hollman, Burlington Township (Green Bay Packers DB)
Derek Holloway β Palmyra (Wash, T. Bay WR)
Bill Hunter β Delaware Twp. (Wash, Miami DB)
Pete Hunter β Atlantic City (Dallas DB)
Ron Israel β Haddon Heights (Minnesota DB)
Steve Israel β Haddon Hts (LA Rams, N. England, N. Orleans
DB)
Ben Ijalana β Rancocas Valley (Indianapolis OL)
Austin Johnson - St. Augustine (Tennessee LB)
Mike Jarmoluk β Bordentown Military Institute (Chicago Bears,
Eagles, Boston Yanks, and NY Bulldogs OT-DL).
George Jamison β Bridgeton (Detroit LB)
George Johnson β Glassboro (Tampa Bay DL)
Harvey Johnson -Bridgeton (NY Yankees RB)
Antony Jordan β Washington Twp. (Indianapolis LB)
Tom Knight β Cherokee (Arizona DB)
Andy Kowalski β Gloucester (Brooklyn WR-DE)
Pete Kugler β C.H. East (San Francisco DL)
John Kuzman-Bordentown Military Institute (Chicago Cardinals
OT)
Kevin Landolt - Holy Cross (Jacksonville DL)
Ted Laux β Collingswood (Eagles QB)
Reggie Lawrence-Camden (Eagles WR)
Alex Lewis β Delran (Detroit LB)
Floyd Little β Bordentown Military Institute (Denver RB)
Tom Longo β Bordentown Military (NY Giants, Cards, DB)
Wali Lundy β Florence/Holy Cross (Houston Texans RB)
Brison Manor β Bridgeton (Denver DL)
Greg Mark β Pennsauken β (Miami, Eagles DL)
Mike McBath β Woodbury (Buffalo LM)
Turk McBride β Woodrow Wilson (KC, Detroit, New Orleans DL)
Don McComb β Camden Catholic (Boston Patriots DE)
Todd McNair β Pennsauken (K.C. RB)
Kareem McKenzie β Willingboro (NJ Jets OL)
Bryant McKinnie β Woodbury (OL Minnesota, Baltimore)
Jeromy Miles β Winslow Township (DB Cincinnati)
Lydell Mitchell β Salem (Baltimore RB)
Dezman Moses, Willingboro (Green Bay, Kansas City LB)
Tony Munford β Overbrook (St. Louis Cardinals RB)
Calvin Murray β Millville (Eagles RB)
Rick Newbill β Clearview (Seattle LB)
Dennis Norman β Cherokee (Seattle OL)
Walt Nowak β Camden (Eagles, WR-DB)
Vic Obeck β Audubon (Chicago Cardinals OG)
Tom Palmer β Collingswood (Pittsburgh T)
Shaun Phillips β Willingboro (San Diego, Denver LB)
Lou Piccone β Vineland (NY Jets, Buffalo WR)
Milt Plum β Woodbury (LA Rams, Detroit QB)
Chris Pressley β Woodbury (Cincinnati FB)
Greg Rakoczy β Shawnee (Cleveland OL)
Derrick Ramsey β Camden (Oakland, New England TE)
Isaac Redman β Paulsboro (Pittsburgh RB)
Haason Reddick β Haddon Heights (Arizona LB)
Dave Robinson β Moorestown (Green Bay LB)
John Roman β Holy Spirit (NY Jets OL)
Steve Romanik β Millville (Chicago Cardinals QB)
Kevin Ross β Paulsboro (K.C, Atlanta DB)
Dave Rowe β Deptford (Oakland DL)
Mike Rozier β Woodrow Wilson (Houston, Atlanta RB)
Jim Ryan β Bishop Eustace (Denver LB)
Logan Ryan β Eastern (New England DB)
Tony Sacca β Delran (Phoenix QB)
George Savitsky-Camden (Eagles, OT)
Skip Singletary β Woodrow Wilson (NY Giants OL)
Alex Silvestro β Paulsboro (New England DL)
Ed Smith β Pemberton (Atlanta TE)
Irv Smith β Pemberton (N. Orleans, San Fran, Cleve. TE)
Alonzo Spellman β Rancocas Valley (Chicago, Dallas DL)
John Stone β Mainland (Oakland WR)
Art Still β Camden (KC, Buffalo DL)
Rod Streater β Burlington Township (Oakland WR)
John Taylor β Pennsauken (San Francisco WR)
Keith Taylor β Pennsauken (Ind. N. Orleans, Wash. DB)
Julian Taylor β Williamstown (San Francisco DE)
Phil Trautwein β Eastern (St. Louis Rams, Cleveland OL)
Johnnie Troutman β Pemberton (San Diego OL)
Stan Walters- Bordentown Military Institute (Eagles, OT)
Tex Warrington β Bordentown Military Institute (Brooklyn
Dodgers football, C-LB)
Darrell Wilson β Pennsauken (N. England DB)
Earl Wilson-Atlantic City (SD Chargers, DE)
Bo Wood β Haddon Heights (Atlanta DE)
Albert Young β Moorestown (Minnesota RB)
Anthony Young β Pemberton (Indianapolis DB)
- played his first two seasons at Rancocas Valley
MARCH 8 CHUCKBIT
"HISTORICAL FLASHBACK"
Have you ever heard of a
high school football game taking precedence over an NFL game and
outdrawing it at the same time??? Such was the case eighty-six years ago
on
Tuesday, November 6, 1934
when the Philadelphia Eagles blasted
the Cincinnati Reds,
64-0,
in an NFL game played at Temple
University Stadium (pictured
here
),
which was located right off of Cheltenham Ave. in the Mount Airy section
of Philadelphia. The game had
major historical significance
! The
64 points scored by the Eagles is still a
team record for most points
scored in a game
, and the 64-0 score is the
most lopsided
regular-season game in NFL history
. The 2:45 pm contest only drew an
estimated
2,000 fans
, because the Eagles and Reds were last-place
teams, and it was
Election Day. Transfer of the game from the Baker
Bowl
, home field of the Eagles, was made necessary when inclement
weather on Sunday, the original date for the contest, forced a
postponement, and the Baker Bowl was unavailable because of a high
school game scheduled on Tuesday. The annual
West
Philadelphia-Central
Public High School League game had already been
booked for the Baker Bowl,
giving the schoolboys preference
,
since the Eagles contract to play at the Baker Bowl only provided for
Sunday dates. For the record, West Philly defeated, Central, 6-0, before
an estimated crowd of
7,000 spectators.
MARCH 7 CHUCKBIT Paul Wiedeman ,
the son of former Eastern High coach Dave
Wiedeman won
his 500th career
game today when Haddonfield edged Haddon Heights, 35-33, in a South Jersey
Group South Jersey Group 2 semifinal. He's only the 11th
coach in South Jersey history to
win 500 games, and from a historical perspective, he is the first
coach in
state history to win 500 games who played in the Tournament of Champions.
Paul played for Haddonfield in the first Tournament of Champions in 1989
when Eastern High with Michael Edwards and John Yezzi upset unbeaten
Haddonfield, 56-54, in the first round of the T of C at Rutgers University.
FEB. 8 CHUCKBIT
"ON THE VERGE OF HISTORY"
Longtime Camden Catholic
High School junior varsity boys' basketball coach
Joe Murtin
(pictured
here
)
is on the verge of New Jersey state history. With a career record of
496-232
,
Joe is four wins away from becoming the
first boys' junior varsity
coach in state history of winning 500 junior varsity games at the same
high school
. Joe started coaching during the 1984-1985 season and
has
31 winning seasons in his 36 years
on the bench at Camden
Catholic. Joe, a 1979 graduate of Camden Catholic, captained his mentor,
legendary coach
Jim Crawford's
first team during the 1978-1979
season. Joe's best season was in 1997 when the junior varsity went 22-0.
Joe is a career postal worker.
FEB. 6 CHUCKBIT Here are the Top 10 career scorers at high schools in the
Philadelphia area (South Jersey, Southeastern Pennsylvania).
1. Dajuan Wagner
,
Camden, 2001,
3,462 points
2. Paul Gause
,
Schalick, 2005,
3,144 points
3. Reggie Welch
,
Woodrow Wilson, 1992,
2,938 points
4. Kobe Bryant
,
Lower Merion, 1996,
2,883 points
5. Ernest Turner
,
Sterling, 2001,
2,806 points
6. Kevin Walls
,
Camden, 1984,
2,775 points
7. Steve Farquhar
,
Calvary Baptist (Voorhees, NJ), 1985,
2,701
points
8. Bill Robinson
,
Atlantic County Christian (Ocean City), 1987,
2,695
points
9. Maureece Rice
,
Straw. Mansion, 2003,
2,681 points
10. Matt Carroll
,
Hatboro-Horsham, 1999,
2,667 points
JAN. 24 CHUCKBIT After reading yesterday's Tedbit on first-team All-City
football players that also scored 1,000 points I was reminded that there is one high
school athlete in New
Jersey history that scored 2,000 career points after making the All-State
Football first-team .
That would be 1996 Paulsboro High School graduate Kevin
Harvey (pictured here ).
The former Paulsboro quarterback, arguably the most accomplished high school
football player in South Jersey history, scored 101
touchdowns and 25
two-point conversions for 656
career points .
He rushed for 4,028
yards and
threw for 42
touchdowns from
1992-1995. He propelled the Red Raiders to four straight South Jersey Group
1 titles and a 43-1
overall record as
a four-year starter. On the basketball court, Kevin was equally impressive,
scoring 2,161
points .
Harvey played college football at Temple
University and
enjoyed a stint in the Arena football League. JAN. 22 CHUCKBIT "UNDEFEATED
PANTHERS" During the 2019 Cheltenham High School historic football season, in which
the state finalist Panthers went (14-2) coached by Father Judge graduate Ryan
Nase , the following question has come up: Has Cheltenham High ever
had an undefeated football team in the 118 years they have been playing
football since 1901??? The answer to that question is a short,
not-so-clear----"Yes, but maybe not really." In 1943, the Panther football
team played an abbreviated four-game schedule for a variety of reasons, but
primarily because World War II was going on. They defeated Academy of the
New Church, 19-0, Friends Sel ect,
25-12, the George School, 41-13, and Central High, 13-7, for a perfect 4-0
undefeated season. There was no Abington game that year. The victory over
Central High of Philadelphia was a major upset with future Penn State and
NFL star Wally Triplett ( top
row in picture ) scoring both touchdowns.
The bottom line is: The 1943 unbeaten, untied Cheltenham High School
football team played four games and won them all, but It all comes down to
what your "definition of a season" is???
JAN. 16 TRIVIA QUESTION Six-time NBA All-Star Kyrie
Irving is
the only player in the history of New Jersey high school boys' basketball to
score 1,000
points at two different high schools .
He scored 1,000 points and at both St.
Patrick's and Montclair
Kimberley Academy . Who is the only player in Southeastern Pennsylvania
history to score 1,000 points at two different schools. For which schools
did he do so? JAN. 14 CHUCKBIT Update: John bagged his 700th win on 1/22. Click here .
With
697 career wins
,
veteran Holy Cross Academy boys' basketball coach
John Valore
(pictured
here
)
is on the verge of becoming just the
eighth
boys' basketball
coach in
Philadelphia area
(southeastern Pennsylvania and South
Jersey) history to win
700 high school games
. Valore, a graduate
of
South Philadelphia High School
, previously coached at
Cherry
Hill East High School
,
Cumberland High,
and
Camden High.
His
overall career record is
697-433
. In a great coincidence, Holy
Ghost principal
Kevin Burke
played at St. Augustine for
Paul
Rodio
.
The
Top 8
in the Philly area are:
1.
Paul Rodio, St. Augustine Prep,
937
wins 2.
Tony Chapman, Holy Ghost Prep,
859 wins (perhaps 875;
reports vary)
3.
Paul Collins, Burlington City, Riverside, Willingboro
788
wins
4.
Clarence Turner, Camden,
775 wins
5.
*Speedy Morris, St. Joseph's Prep, Penn Charter, Roman,
750
wins
6.
Tom Feraco, Middle Township,
722 wins
7.
Jim Crawford, Camden Catholic,
713 wins
8.
John Valore, Holy Cross, Camden, Cumberland, Cherry Hill East
697
wins
*-Yesterday vs. Father Judge
JAN, 13 CHUCKBIT
"A SCHOOL FIRST" It's January 13,and for the first time in
Cheltenham High School sports history, neither the boys' basketball team
or the football team have yet to lose a Suburban One League game. The
football team coached by Father Judge grad Ryan Nase went (6-0) in
conference play, while coach Pede Fleury's Panther basketball team is
also currently (6-0) in the league and (12-1) overall. It's an incredible
record when you consider star point-guard Zahree Harrison went down
with a knee injury the first game of the season, requiring season-ending
surgery. Harrison, a St. Francis University Loretto signee, played
his freshman season at Archbishop Wood . On Saturday, Rider
University signee Jaelen McGlone (pictured here )
exploded for 29 points, and budding sophomore star Justin Moore added
13 points and dealt out 12 assists to lead the Chelts to a hard-earned 75-71
victory over host Downingtown West High. The Panthers play Malvern Prep, with
their high-scoring guard Deuce Turner, in a non-league match-up tonight in
Malvern..
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Published
March 5, 2026
Updated
March 5, 2026