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Post by mm67 on Feb 11, 2024 8:59:24 GMT -5
Brooklyn Tech used to be very good. Unsure today Oversight by mistake. Bklyn Tech is a fine school on any list. In recent years there have been other high end specialized high schools added to the list. Of course James Madison is a stand out non-specialized high school, maybe not Regis nor the others but Madison is a good school.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 11, 2024 16:13:21 GMT -5
Trivia for HC Which HC hoops great played at Brooklyn Tech ?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 13, 2024 14:40:31 GMT -5
Togo Palazzi?
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Post by hchoops on Feb 13, 2024 14:42:39 GMT -5
No, close to time frame, though Togo is from nj
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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 13, 2024 15:50:58 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure Frank Oftring was a Brooklyn guy and I do not recall my dad mentioning my him whenever he brought up his Brooklyn Prep classmates (and there were a bunch of them) who joined him at HC, so I’ll go with him.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 13, 2024 16:17:30 GMT -5
Correct It was Frank Oftring What year did your dad graduate from BP ? My alma mater as well as at least one other poster I could tell you had quality lineage
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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 13, 2024 18:56:35 GMT -5
My dad was BP Class of 1946.
Classmates included William Peter Blatty (The Exocist) and George Paterno, Joe’s younger brother, but that’s not the distinction it once was. ☹️
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Post by mm67 on Feb 13, 2024 19:42:09 GMT -5
Brooklyn Tech or Brooklyn Prep?
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Post by CHC8485 on Feb 13, 2024 20:37:13 GMT -5
Prep for my dad and the others.
Tech for Frank Oftring
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Post by mm67 on Feb 13, 2024 20:42:36 GMT -5
Sadly, BP with its high quality academics and great tradition has been closed for decades. It was a great loss for the youngsters of NYC.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Feb 14, 2024 6:36:18 GMT -5
Sadly, BP with its high quality academics and great tradition has been closed for decades. It was a great loss for the youngsters of NYC. Wasn't it Jesuit as well?
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Post by mm67 on Feb 14, 2024 6:51:25 GMT -5
Sadly, BP with its high quality academics and great tradition has been closed for decades. It was a great loss for the youngsters of NYC. Wasn't it Jesuit as well? Yes.
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Post by hchoops on Feb 14, 2024 9:57:23 GMT -5
My dad was BP Class of 1946. Classmates included William Peter Blatty (The Exocist) and George Paterno, Joe’s younger brother, but that’s not the distinction it once was. ☹️ I am BP class of ‘63. George Paterno taught us in 9th grade Social Studies. very nice person. A hoops teammate was football great, John Dockery ‘62, Harvard 66, NY Jets Super Bowl Champ ‘69. Also drafted by the Red Sox. Played briefly in the minors before deciding on the pigskin.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 14, 2024 10:51:08 GMT -5
My dad was BP Class of 1946. Classmates included William Peter Blatty (The Exocist) and George Paterno, Joe’s younger brother, but that’s not the distinction it once was. ☹️ I am BP class of ‘63. George Paterno taught us in 9th grade Social Studies. very nice person. A hoops teammate was football great, John Dockery ‘62, Harvard 66, NY Jets Super Bowl Champ ‘69. Also drafted by the Red Sox. Played briefly in the minors before deciding on the pigskin. www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/high_schools.cgi?id=93bba85a5 NFL players from Brooklyn Prep
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Post by hchoops on Feb 14, 2024 11:12:56 GMT -5
I am BP class of ‘63. George Paterno taught us in 9th grade Social Studies. very nice person. A hoops teammate was football great, John Dockery ‘62, Harvard 66, NY Jets Super Bowl Champ ‘69. Also drafted by the Red Sox. Played briefly in the minors before deciding on the pigskin. www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/high_schools.cgi?id=93bba85a5 NFL players from Brooklyn Prep 4 Eric Olsen could not have gone to BP.in the 2000s. It was closed in the early 70s.
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Post by xhaav on Feb 16, 2024 20:04:44 GMT -5
Correct It was Frank Oftring What year did your dad graduate from BP ? My alma mater as well as at least one other poster I could tell you had quality lineage I scored a great part time job my senior at HC at Oftring & Co, the brokerage in downtown Worcester then run by the son Bob. They paid well for clerical work, even offered to sponsor me to study for the Series 7 if I wanted to (I didn’t) and eventually hired a friend of mine too, from my class. They definitely kept the HC love in the family. Great little company with great people and some quirky & funny characters. It was like a brokerage equivalent of Cheers - where everybody knew your name.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 18, 2024 19:36:46 GMT -5
I am BP class of ‘63. George Paterno taught us in 9th grade Social Studies. very nice person. A hoops teammate was football great, John Dockery ‘62, Harvard 66, NY Jets Super Bowl Champ ‘69. Also drafted by the Red Sox. Played briefly in the minors before deciding on the pigskin. www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/high_schools.cgi?id=93bba85a5 NFL players from Brooklyn Prep Including the Titus bros... HC guys!
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 7, 2024 14:02:12 GMT -5
Since we have a long thread on Regis, I figured I'd point out that their basketball team won the CHSAA 'B' Division NYC Championship. They defeated St. John's Prep of Queens 56-44 after opening up a 20 point lead shortly after halftime.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 30, 2024 16:31:43 GMT -5
Regis defeated South Bronx Prep 67-53 in the first ever CHSAA (NYC Catholic) v. PSAL (NYC Public) City Championship at LIU. This spawned out of the cancelation of the New York State Federation tournament, which annually pits the winners of the following groups in a Final Four, for the top 3 enrollment classes in the state:
PSAL - NYC public schools winner CHSAA - Catholic state champ from either NYC, Buffalo area or Long Island NYSAIS - Private school champ (NYC/LI/Westchester County region only) NYSPHSAA - state champ out of the pool that includes everyone but the top 3 groups i.e. Catholic schools in the likes of Rochester, Albany and Syracuse still compete for the New York State PUBLIC school championship but public schools in NYC do not.
Regis also dispatched St. Mary's of Buffalo 76-59 a couple weeks prior for the CHSAA state crown.
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Post by jkh67 on Apr 1, 2024 19:14:11 GMT -5
Regis defeated South Bronx Prep 67-53 in the first ever CHSAA (NYC Catholic) v. PSAL (NYC Public) City Championship at LIU. This spawned out of the cancelation of the New York State Federation tournament, which annually pits the winners of the following groups in a Final Four, for the top 3 enrollment classes in the state: PSAL - NYC public schools winner CHSAA - Catholic state champ from either NYC, Buffalo area or Long Island NYSAIS - Private school champ (NYC/LI/Westchester County region only) NYSPHSAA - state champ out of the pool that includes everyone but the top 3 groups i.e. Catholic schools in the likes of Rochester, Albany and Syracuse still compete for the New York State PUBLIC school championship but public schools in NYC do not. Regis also dispatched St. Mary's of Buffalo 76-59 a couple weeks prior for the CHSAA state crown. Don't mess with them Regis Raiders! Back in my day, the fulcrum of basketball combat was the Jesuit League -- Fordham Prep, Xavier, Regis, and Brooklyn Prep. We had some great games against Xavier, but, if memory serves, Fordham was the league kingpin.
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Post by hchoops on Apr 2, 2024 12:45:48 GMT -5
CHSAA champ Stepinac won the city championship, defeating Kevin Hamilton’s Eagle Academy, which won the PSAL title for the second year in a row, despite losing its best player, Taj Bryant, a former HC recruit,.to the Patrick School in NJ.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Apr 2, 2024 14:25:08 GMT -5
CHSAA champ Stepinac won the city championship, defeating Kevin Hamilton’s Eagle Academy, which won the PSAL title for the second year in a row, despite losing its best player, Taj Bryant, a former HC recruit,.to the Patrick School in NJ. This is the top division for those who might not know the layout of HS hoops. Great season for Hamilton!
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Post by mm67 on Apr 2, 2024 14:50:22 GMT -5
Men of Stepinac. Our college counselor was Fr. Stanley Matthews, HC, class of '42. He was a founding faculty member of the school which began operations in'48. Thus, the Stepinac Crusaders. In my time our Honors classes provided a number of HC students as well as a number of students to high academic Ivies, MIT/RPI and the Service academies. Many of us entered HC early admission in October of our senior year. arranged by Fr. Matthews. Senioritis w/out consequences. Stepinac is an entirely different school than in my day. RJ Davis, a Stepinac man, played for UNC, academic honors and the ACC Player of the Year, I think. He will get his degree unlike fellow Stepinac Crusader AJ Griffin, not as academic, Duke one year, currently in the pros. Like many do with their high schools, I too have extremely fond memories of my four years at Stepinac.(Father wanted Regis. Mother said, no, it was too far as was my Dad's alma mater Fordham Prep. Happy wife...).
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Apr 2, 2024 15:31:01 GMT -5
Stepinac has gone through sone periods of being an athletic behemoth and also some periods of not being great at sports.
When I was in middle school and high school Stepinac would get whacked by White Plains HS in both football and basketball more often than not. They weren't in the top division in basketball until 2013 or 2014, and were actually a bad team in the second division of the CHSAA throughout the early to mid 2000's. Stepinac beating Regis back then would've been an upset.
Now, Step is so good that the Thanksgiving football game against White Plains isn't even played anymore. The Iona Prep-Stepinac basketball game is the biggest matchup in Westchester County now with the crowds so big that they can't play in HS gyms. Stepinac home game is at the Westchester County Center and Iona's is played at Iona College.
Kevin Hyland, HC '06, was a Stepinac alum.
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Post by mm67 on Apr 2, 2024 16:14:46 GMT -5
Actually, Stepinac (Mastropolo, Cohane, Ricchichi) won the top tier CHSAA City basketball championship in 1960. Represented NYC at the national tourney in DC. Of course I'm talking ancient history in the 60's when Stepinac played All Hallows(Richie Murphy) or was it Tolentine, Power Memorial (Lew Alcindor) & others in basketball. CHSFL football was a blood bath with games against Chaminade(Earl Kirmsr, HC), St Francis Prep, Mt St, Michael(Mike Cunnion, HC), Iona (kicked their butt all 4 of my years), etc.Years later enrollment dropped to less than 300. Athletics dropped, too. School was on the ropes. Managed to survive & thrive and grow its enrollment to 800+ I think. I believe Stepinac's enrollment was 1,600+ in my day. It is an entirely different school today. Warm memories. Stepinac classmate Bob Hyland, BC, '67, Consensus football All America, Ist round NFL draft(9), Super Bowl champion and one of the finest people I have ever known is Kevin's dad. Never met a finer man in my life. He is revered and rightfully so among the Stepinac faithful.
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