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VOL. 6 No. 52
Thursday, November 9, 1972
FOR GOOD TASTE: Erik Larsen (left), owner of the
Royal Viking. Restatwant In Woodbury, is
congratulated by Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John
Burke upoW',1iWl«1^''iw»»nea-' ^*rt^itamrmn1iMinSk^^^me<:
Year" by the Long Island Restaurant and Caterers
Association. Warren Spellman of Farmingdale, owner
of the Holiday Manor in Bethpage and President of the
Association looks on.
Commissioner Francis E. O'Connor of Nassau County's Depart-,
ment of General Services, (left) checks out notice designating
County Land to be auctioned to the public. Looking on is Joseph F.
Geraghty, Director of the Bureau of Real Estate & Insurance for the
Department of General Services.
The auction will be held on Wednesday, December 13,1972, at 10:00
A.M. in the Auditorium of the Nassau County Police Headquarters
located at Franklin Avenue in Mineola, New York.
Prospective buyers, wishing additional information on specific
parcels, are requested to contact Mr. Geraghty, the Director of the
Bureau of Real Estate & Insurance either by calling his office - 516-
535-5313, or by writing him, in care of the Bureau which is located at
the Old Court House Building, 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, New
York, 11501.
Free Diabetes Test at Mid-Island Hospital
Mid-Island Hospital, in
cooperationv' with the Nassau
County Chapter of the New York
Diabetes Association, will par­ticipate
.in National Diabetes
Week, November I2th-I9th, by.
offering a FREE, one-minute
diagnostic screening test on
Saturday and Sunday, November
18th and 19th, 1972 from 9:00 A.M.
to 4:00 P.M.
Persons most likely to develop
diabetes are those over 40 years
of age; those who have blood
realtives with diabetes; those
who are overweight. Every adult
should be tested for diabetes at
least once a year. These free tests
will be given primarily to
discover the unknown diabetic. If
you have ever been told you have
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BETHPAGE FOOTBALL:
10 cents per copy
Marching Towards A Title
By Richard Wood
It was an overcast day in 1869
when the Tigers finally accepted
the challange of the Knights.
The Tigers, in orange and
black, lined up at one end of the
field. The Knights, in scarlet and
black, took their positions at the
other; their legs, shoulders, arms
and feet their only weapons.
.....A whistle blew/a brown oblong
object shot into the grey cloud-swept
sky, and the two armies
collided in confusing battle.
This semi-organized con­frontation,
witnessed by a hand­ful
of late Nineteenth Century
young #ien and women, marked
the beginning of the game of
football in America. .
The rules, in great contrast
from the complicated ones of
today, were hastily agreed upon
with an ingenuous, gentlemenly
handshake just prior to
finally admitted and accepted
defeat.
Rutgers University's Scarlet
Knights had defeated Princeton
University's Tigers 6-4 in the first
intexscholastic football game
everuplayed in America.
To witness the effect of time on
these modest beginnings,
Twentieth Century man need
only pass by a high school field on
a Saturday afternoon or flick
around a TV dial on a Sunday
afternoon. Football abounds in
America - professional,
collegiate, high school, club and
sandlot. And in the last ten to
fifteen years it has taken
America by storm, literally
»'ii^la'ei«g"4*»etg»a«cho^i^rt*trf"
baseball as the "national
pastime."
This first in a series of articles
concentrating on high school
football, the most exciting and
enthusiastic football being played
today, spotlights the Golden
Eagles, Bethpage High School's
undefeated varsity football team.
NUMBER FOUR
The Golden Eagles football
team, ranked 4th best in Nassau
County, is coached by Howie
Vogts.
Mr. Vogts, who played his
football at Emporia State and
Adelphi and worked under Duffy
Daugherty at Michigan State
during the Spartans' exciting and
now memorable 1966-67 National
Championship season, has been
coaching at Bethpage for twenty
years.
Now head coach and Director
of Athletics, Mr. Vogts is assisted
by two other coaches, Steve
Axman and Tony Rossolina,,
Steve, who played both football
and lacrosse at C.W. Post,
coached at Freeport before
coming to Bethpage. Tony played
his college ball at Adelphi.
Although the Bethpage football
team went undefeated during
both the 1956 and 1957 seasons
and won the league championship
in 1963, the current team is by far
Bethpage's best in many years.
Sporting an enviable 5-0-1
record, Assistant Coach Steve*
Axman commented that "this
has been a total team effort this
year."
"We've scored with both
passing and running,-and as a
result of our'fine defense," he'
said. "The opposition lays off
expecting the pass and then can't
support our running at­tack....
We've got great depth and
the ability to substitute both
offensively and defensively."
"Things are going quite well
for us so far," said Head Coach
Vogts. "We've got one more
league game next week, against
Island Threes to determine the
League Championship, theh one
more against McArthur of
be held on the astro turf at'Hof-stra
Stadium, matches the best
North Shore team in each
division against the respective
South Shore winner. Bethpage is
in the North Shore II division.
"But the Island Trees game
should prove to be a good one,"
said Vogts. "It's just a matter of
the team staying away from
injuries and the virus bug."
What accounts then for the
success of the Bethpage varsity,
passing, running, or defense?
"Well, we're concentrating
mainly on passing this year,"
said Coach Vogts, "because
we've got two good quarterbacks,
Steve Furrey and Ben Zuk."
^SVe ve scored a good many
points," the coach continued,
"averaging 35 points per game,
while the defense has limited the
opposition to a total of 34 points in
six games."
The deduction is that it's all
three, passing, running and
defense. Bethpage has a well-balanced,
well-rounded football
team.
Defensive lineman Jack Frost,
for example, who blessed the
defensive unit with the not-so-unlikely
name of "Mean
Mothers," along with linebacker
Nick Candito, Peter Fallon and
Gary Jollon lead Bethpage's
stingy defensive team- They're
already posted three shutouts
this year.
The offensive line, led by
center Mark Levano, Ken Price
and junior Erwin Dill, has
enabled quarterback Steve
Furrey to pass for an outstanding
average of 200 yards per game
this season. They also keep
opening the kind of holes that
allowed fullback Bill Schoppman
to run for.226 yards last week
against Hicksville, not to mention
_. his four touchdowns against
Plainview Kennedy four weeks
ago.
Add the power running of
Anthony Romano, junior back,
and the sweep plays by senior
Dave Mejia and you can't beat
these Golden Eagles.
FURRE.Y, MEYER, AND
_ ROSOFF
Steve Furrey, first string
quarterback, Team Captain
Chris Meyer, offensive guard,
and .Cary Rosoff, split receiver,
are probably Bethpage's three
most outstanding players; that
is, if one was forced to single out
three members from this ex­ceptionally
talented team.
Steve, whose name is already
circulating around the campuses
of Notre Dame, Minnesota,
Boston College, Michigan State,
Rice and T.C.U., says he's still
undecided as far as college goes,
but as a quarterback says "I'm
looking for a good passing
school."
also undecided at this point. But
Coach Vogts revealed that Ohio
State, North Carolina, Syracuse,
Rutgers, Maryland, Virginia
Tech and Rice already know
about Chris.
Cary Rosoff, a football-baseball-
basketball man, in­dicates
that the University of
Wisconsin is his choice right now,
although he'll probably wind up
picking between Columbia,
Colgate, Duke, Brown, Syracuse
and Wisconsin.
"Most of our kids are serious
about school," said Coach Vogts.
"About 80 percent go on to
college," he indicated. "In fact,
mes e.and,m«Be.athlet««ar* going,,
to college today.. They-can use
their time more effectively. They
know how to budget their time.
And this ability carries over well
into college."
Defensive center and offensive
right tackle Mark Levano, for
example, plans to attend Penn
State, although he plans to
concentrate on wrestling rather
than football. And defensive
halfback Peter Fallon, "the most
sought after lacrosse player in
the nation" according to Vogts,
plans on attending either
Roanoke College or East
Carolina University.
SATURDAY BREAKFAST
The Bethpage football team
has two interesting programs
going for it.
The first is its "Saturday
Breakfast." The entire team,
coaching staff and invited guests
congregate at a local restaurant
for a hearty Saturday breakfast
of bacon, eggs, coffee and rolls.
Last Saturday's breakfast,
November 4th, was held at the
Howard Johnson's Restaurant on
Hempstead Turnpike near Route
135.
In attendance was Skip
Macholz, a 1969 graduate of Beth-
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