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ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

1959 (8): Frank W. Keaney, Walter Doll (Class of ’12), John L. Sullivan (’14), William H. Tully (’14), Marshall H. Tyler, Albert A. LeBoeuf (’17), Albert S. Hudson (’20), Grant H. Potter (’22)

1972 (13): Pasquale J. Abbruzzi (’55), William M.H. Beck, Robert J. Black (’50), Ernest A. Calverley (’46), Richard K. Cole, Thomas R. Doherty (H’76), Frank B. Lanning (H’59), Hugo R. Mainelli Sr. (’30), John E. Meade (’15), Dr. A.A. Savastano (’28), David R. Stenhouse (’55), Stanley J. Stutz (’42), Frederic D. Tootell

1973 (14): Louis J. Abbruzzi (’41), Frank H. Briden (’13), Carl L. Coleman (’15), Edward J. Cox (’33), Henry F. Dreyer (’35), Irving H. Folsworth (’39), Kenneth B. Goff (’33), Charles A. Hall (’32), Chester S. Jaworski (’39), Warner M. Keaney (’41), Charles J. Lazarek (’30), Robert C. Nichols (’43), William J.A. Rowe (’37), Earl F. Shannon (’43)

1974 (8): William M. Baird (’54), Dr. Harold W. Browning (’14), Paul F. Cieurzo (’31), Charles E. Flaherty (’31), Charles E. Gibbons (’56), Robert E. Miller (’49), William G. Mokray (’29), Dr. John F. Quinn (H’72)

1975 (8): John B. Blount (’50), Frederick S. Conley (’41), R.A. Debucci (’27), Robert G. Dispirito (’53), Donald M. Dwyer (’43), Angelo M. Gencarelli (’22), Robert M. Mudge (’37), William E. Rutledge (’42)

1976 (11): John M. Baxter (’52), Henry Z. Brenner (’56), Theodore S. Clarke (’40), Robert L. Cragan (’33), James J. Federico (’35), H. David Hedison (’43), Dr. Francis H. Horn (H’67), Winifred Keaney, Dr. Robert Lepper Jr. (’36), Bernard T. Pina (’54), Dr. Carl R. Woodward

1977 (10): William E. Butler (’39), Robert C. Haire (’28), Alec H. Hurwitz (’29), Josephine T. Lees Kirn, Harold W. Kopp (H’80), Carl B. Lisa (’61), Michael J. Martynik (’33), Ralph C. Potter (’47), William C. von Weyhe (’57), James A. Warren (’58)

A total of 296 University of Rhode Island student-athletes, coaches, teams, administrators and athletic boosters have been enshrined in the University of Rhode Island Athletic Hall of Fame since 1959.

To qualify for induction, a person must have been an outstanding performer or have provided tremendous service to the athletic program at the University.

Athletic Hall of Fame Committee Tom Drennan (Men's Sport Coach)Laurie Feit-Melnick (Women's Sport Coach)Kengy Gardiner-Bell (Hall of Fame) Yvette Harps-Logan (At-Large)Carl Koussa (RIRAA) Barbara Luebke (Athletic Advisory Board) Jim Norman (Hall of Fame) Ed Quinlan (Alumnus) Harold "Cap" Smith (Alumnus) Mike Szostak (Media)Gregg Burke (Ex-Officio)Lauren Anderson (Ex-Officio)Bill Bowers (Ex-Officio)Mike Laprey (Ex-Officio)

1978 (6): Bradford B. Boss (’55), Thomas V. Falciglia (’45), Robert J. Mairs III (’58), John S. Messina (’37), Ambrose R. Smith (H’83), Robert B. Strong (’26)

1979 (7): Janet Potter Brownell (’38), William A. Cawley, Fred J. Congleton (’53), Frederick J. Lakeway (’59), Robert F. Shea (’46), Robert S. Sherman (’46), Alton W. Wiley (’51)

1980 (10): Donald Graham (’39), Arthur F. Hanley (’36), Gary E. Koenig (’62), Clifford E. Pace (’41), Lawrence R. Panciera (’47), Roger L. Pearson (’60), Joseph W. Pinto (’25), Joseph J. Scussell (’31), Anna M. Tucker (’41), Thomas J. Wright (’34)

1981 (10): Frederick S. Ackroyd (’30), Harold E. Adams Jr. (’53), James N. Adams Jr. (’59), Donald M. Brown (’60), Steven Chubin (’66), Milton H. Price (’15), John L. Rego (’32), Thomas G. Russell (H’82), Arthur L. Sherman (’50), James D. Wright (’37)

1982 (8): Albert E. Carlotti Sr. (’32), Edward J. Dahl (’48), Edward L. DiSimone (’57), Charles H. Hunt (’56), Matthew E. Kearns Jr. (’30), Everett S. McDaniel (’59), Harold Q. Moore (’18), Robert N. Talbot (’28)

1983 (9): Roland J. Bettez Jr. (’61), Albert A. Carpenter (’42), William D. Dolan (’35), Raymond T. Dwyer (’50), Joseph F. Hall (’48), Tom Harrington (’60), Robert L. Linne (’53), Robert J. MacDonald (’55), John F. Martin (’36)

1984 (11): Gaetano G. Calise Jr. (’59), James W. Eastwood (’37), William S. Ellis (’34), Morris Fabricant (’39), Harry D. Hedison (’42), Joseph F. McHenry, James W. Norman (’57), David W. Partington (’39), Francis H. Sherman (’49), Kenneth G. Taylor (’43), Ruth (Jerrett) Urquhart (’38)

1985 (8): J. William Corr (’43), Ronald A. Cruff (’56), William J. Falk, Paul Fitzgerald (’57), Donald N. Kaull (’67), Dr. William R. Lister (’52), Rocco Negris (’53), William F. Poland (’60)

1986 (7): Chester A. Berry (’38), Nathalie E. Briggs (’33), Charles E. McGinnis (’69), A. Robert Rainville (’64), Harold F. Smith Sr. (’53), Dr. Robert P. Sorlien (H’71), Malcolm M. Williams

1987 (9): Arthur P. Arnold Sr. (’34), Armand A. Cure (’43), Stephen R. Furness (’72), Helen S. King (’40), Dr. M. Dorothy Massey (H’70), Richard L. Narcessian (’71), David J. Ricereto (’62), Dr. Raymond E. Stevens (’28), Maurice Zarchen (’49)

1988 (9): Joseph D. Almonte (’58), Dr. Sylvester A. Capalbo (’34), Owen R. Conroy (’29), Frank T. Geiselman (’68), Louise Anthony Greene (’44), Frank P. Mormando (’58), Barry D. Multer (’61), Raymond J. Peltier (’57), Stephen A. Rowell (’73)

1989 (8): Edward K. Adams (’78), Gustin L. Buonaiuto (’53), Helen E. Cruickshank (’51), Kenneth C. Goodwin Sr. (’49), Richard A. Moser (’78), Robert P. Narcessian (’74), Dana C. Quigley (’69), Ronald L. Rothstein (’64)

1990 (7): Alvin S. Clegg Jr. (’57), H. Richard Hole (’47), Dennis C. McGovern (’65), Patricia Nicol (’80), Pasquale Pezzelli Jr. (’53), Scott M. Pucino (’76), Arthur J. Stephenson (’68)

1991 (7): Alan G. Arbuse (’63), Frank N. Caruso (’67), Michael P. Fitzgerald (’67), Manoog T. Heditsian (’47), John J. Mantenuto (’36), Carol E. Morris (’81), Nancy French Schock (’44)

1992 (6): Lawrence Caswell (’70), Paul T. Faulkner (’63), Edward K. Fracassa (’65), John H. Leach Jr. (’57), Brinton C. Piez (H’84), Patricia A. Ruggiero (’71)

1993 (8): Joseph A. Buesing (’65), Arthur R. Carlin (’48), Jeannette E. Crooker, Kimberly S. Nelson (’81), Alan L. Nero (H’79), Kenneth B. Potter (’32), Michael Sarkesian (’53), Ronald L. Stenhouse (’62)

1994 (6): Arthur H. Boulet (’59), Raymond P. Freitas, Robert J. Hoder (‘62), Eleanor R. Lemaire, Sylvester McGee (’76), Mark W. Strawderman (’86)

1995 (7): Robert A. Adams (’57), Frank A. DiPiro (’55), Naomi Graves (’82), Jack Kraft, Len Mercurio (’83), John Norris (H’93), Linda Louise Rowell (‘76)

1996 (11): Larry Barrett (’43), Tom Ehrhardt (’86), John Fultz (’71), Bob Griffin, Geza Henni, Pat Horgan (’83), Kevin Murphy (’81), Horace Owens (’83), Steve Tosches (’79), Michele Washington (’86), Jeffrey Williams (’76)

1997 (9): Sue Scott Beeman (’87), Herman Brown (’84), Kristen Ford (’84), Mary McAllister (’40), Lisa Murphy (’82), Paul Narcessian, Paul Quigley (’67), John Rollins, Jim Urquhart (’78)

1998 (8): Don Almy (’55), Dale Brown (’61), Leo DiMaio, Tom Garrick (’89), Sally Keleher Goodwin (’50), Harold Melkonian (’52), Dan McCrudden (’78), Carlton Owens (’93)

1999 (9): James S. Buehler (’77), Mark Cameron (’75), Luis S. Carvalho (’72), Lorenzo A. Gallo Jr. (’73), Mary C. Gamble (’42), Kerry P. McKay (’79), John P. Riley Jr. (’96), Charles S. Scarpulla (’63), Robert K. Underhill (’51)

2000 (10): Douglas D. Clark (’85), Brian Forster, Kenny Green (’89), Bruce Hallworth (’66), Christos Latos (’55), John O’Leary (’57), Steve Peterson (’85), Al Skinner, Anthony Tetro (’64), Louiseannette Platt Wright (’43)

2001 (7): Kengi Gardiner Bell (‘92), Ellen Quantmeyer Bruckshaw (‘88), Charlie Connery (‘71), Lars Guck (’91), Dameon Reilly (‘86), Cal Whitfield (‘82), Bob Wells (’59)

2002 (9): Diane Hull Brown (’86), Dana Conley (’38), Mark Cruise (’81), Tony DeLuca (’84), Harold Fell (’61), Don Gamble (’48), John Gonsalves (’64), Elisa Warren McDonough (’90), John Mitchell (’51)

2003 (10): Jennifer Eaton Burkhardt (’91), Clay Clatur (’65), Tony DiMaggio (’86), Steve Godin (’85), Charlotte Waters Mapes (’34), Tracie Yrigoyen Morenberg (’92), Tom Mut (’83), Les Nichols (’42), Bob Taylor (’55), Norman O. Wilcox (’42)

2004 (7): Brad Carson (’97), Greta Cohen (’64), Jacquelyn Elmer Fagan (’79), Jason Gailes (’92), Anne Kelsen (’94), Terry Lynch (’84), Bob Peltier (’59)

2005 (2): 1984 football team, 1985 football team

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URI FOOTBALL IN THE PROSName, Position Years at URI Team (League) Pro Seasons Duke Abbruzzi, RB 1938-41 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 1941-43 Pat Abbruzzi, RB 1951-54 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 1956-59 Alan Abruse, OT 1960-63 Los Angeles Rams (NFL) 1963 John Bush, C 1995-98 Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 2000 Cy Butler, WR 1993-95 New Haven Ninjas (Arena) 2002 Mohegan Wolves (Arena2) 2003 Dan Callahan, P 1973 New England Patriots (NFL) 1974 Washington Redskins (NFL) 1975 Jacksonville Express (WFL) 1975 Guy Carbone, DB 1982-85 New England Patriots (NFL) 1986 Mike Cassidy, DB 1983-85 New England Patriots (NFL) 1986 Armand Cure, RB 1941-43 Baltimore Colts (NFL) 1943-44 Lou D’Agostino, DL 1993-95 New York Jets (NFL) 1996 Chy Davidson, WR 1978-79 New England Patriots 1981-82 Tony DeLuca, DT 1980-83 Buffalo Bills (NFL) 1987 T.J. DelSanto, WR 1980-82 Philadelphia Stars (USFL) 1983 Tom Ehrhardt, QB 1984-85 New York Jets (NFL) 1986 Cincinnati Bengals (NFL) 1986 Frank Ferrara, DT 1994-96, 1998 New York Giants (NFL) 1999-01 Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) 2002 Brian Forster, WR 1983-85, 1987 New England Patriots (NFL) 1988 Greg Fournier, OL 1991-94 Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) 1995 Steve Furness, DT 1969-71 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1971-80 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL), Detroit Lions (NFL) 1981 Frank Geiselman, Fl 1966-67 Green Bay (NFL) 1968 Charlie Gibbons, DL 1954-56 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 1956 Dick Grann, C 1953-55 Baltimore Colts (NFL) 1955 Brian Hunte, LB 1992-93 Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 1996 Eric Jenkins, DE 1992-94 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 1996 James Jenkins, RB 1996-98 Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 2000 LaJhon Jones, LB 1994-97 San Diego Chargers (NFL) 1998 New Haven Ninjas (Arena) 2002 Chris Keneally, OL 1992-94 Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 1995-96 Ken Mastrole, QB 1999 Orlando Predators (Arena) 2001 Amsterdam Admirals (NFL Europe) 2002 Molly McGee, FB 1971-73 Atlanta Falcons (NFL) 1974 Ottawa Rough Riders (CFL) 1975 Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) 1976-79 Rich Moser, RB 1975-77 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1978-79 Miami Dolphins (NFL) 1980 Kansas City Chiefs (NFL), Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1981 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL) 1982-83 Tom Mut, WR 1978, 1980-82 New England Patriots (NFL) 1983 Rich Pelzer, OT 1980-82 Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) 1982 Jim Pratt, WR 1985-86 New England Steamrollers (Arena) 1988 Dameon Reilly, WR 1983-85 Indianapolis Colts (NFL) 1986 Miami Dolphins (NFL) 1987 Howie Small, C 1950-52 Minnesota Vikings (NFL) 1967 Lance Small, DB 1998-01 Mohegan Wolves (Arena) 2002 Kevin Smith, CB 1987-90 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1991 Dennis Talbot, DE 1979-82 Chicago Fire (USFL) 1983 Shane Vergari, C 1998-01 Mohegan Wolves (Arena ) 2002 Chuck Wesley, DB 1998-01 Buffalo Destroyers (Arena2) 2003 Bob White, OT 1982-85 New York Jets (NFL) 1986 Dallas Cowboys (NFL) 1987-89 New England Patriots (NFL) 1990 Calvin Whitfield, CB 1979-82 Montreal Alouettes (CFL) 1983 Buffalo Bills (NFL) 1984 Jeff Williams, OT 1973-76 Los Angeles Rams (NFL) 1977-78 Washington Redskins (NFL) 1979-80 San Diego Chargers (NFL) 1981 Chicago Bears (NFL) 1982 Ray Williams, DB 1983-86 New England Patriots (NFL) 1987 Wendall Williams 2000-03 San Francisco 49ers (NFL) 2004-05

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URI FOOTBALL HISTORY Rhode Island celebrates 108 years of playing the game of football at Kingston in 2007, and a few historical highlights will be most appropriate in both words and pictures. Of course, four persons just about stand by themselves in Ram gridiron annals: The late Pat Abbruzzi, the runner; Tom Ehrhardt, the passer; Brian Forster, the receiver; and the late Steve Furness, the defensive specialist.Rhody’s Little All-America halfback of the early 1950’s, Pat Abbruzzi still holds several New England, Yankee Conference (now Atlantic 10 Conference) rushing marks and went on to professional All-League status while playing with the Montreal Allouettes of the Canadian Football League. He was named to the Allouettes all-time all-star team and later became a celebrated Rhode Island Interscholastic League football coach. Tom Ehrhardt, a two-time All-America quarterback, who set just about every passing mark in New England and the Conference, while leading URI to its finest hours in the sport in 1984 and 1985, “owns the book” for signal-callers at Rhode Island and Atlantic 10. He’s the only football player in Ram history to have his jersey number (12) retired, led the nation in passing in 1985, and accomplished all of this in only two years. Holder of ten NCAA receiving records at the time of his graduation, Forster is the all-time receiver in Ram history and still holds many National, Eastern, New England and Conference records. Playing as a tight-end, his 3,944 receiving yards are 1,200 more than any other Rhode Island pass catcher. He helped lead the Rams to their pair of NCAA playoff appearances in 1984-85. Furness, who starred at Rhody in both football and track while earning 12 varsity letters, played both defensive end and tackle for the Rams, earning All-America honors as well as Eastern, New England and Conference plaudits. He went on to a superlative 11-year NFL career, the finest ever for a URI athlete, playing regularly at tackle for four Pittsburgh Steeler Super Bowl teams as a member of the famed “Iron Curtain” defense. Others left an indelible mark on Rhody football such as All-America halfback Louis “Duke” Abbruzzi whose records were broken by his younger brother Pat; Jimmy Adams, Joe Almonte, Don Almy, Alan Arbuse, Rollie Bettez; Arthur “Archie” Boulet, Henry Brenner, who played regularly despite being deaf; Frank Briden, Don Brown, Joe Buesing, Gus Buonaiuto, Bill Butler, Sylvester “Cappy” Capalbo, Art Carlin, Albert “Bud” Carpenter, Brad Carson, Larry Caswell, Walter Doll, and Paul Cieurzo, who would later serve as a Ram coach, interim athletic director and longtime professor of physical education; Also, Owen Conroy, Ed Cox, Bob Cragan, Mark Cruise, Armand Cure, Ed “Ebba” Dahl, Romeo “Buck” DeBucci, All-America defensive tackle Tony DeLuca, Tony DiMaggio, Frank DiPiro, Ed DiSimone, Bob DiSpirito, Bill Dolan, Walter Doll, Don Dwyer, Paul Faulkner, Paul Fitzgerald, Charles Flaherty, Edward “Duke” Fracassa, Fran Geiselman, Angelo Gencarelli, Little All-America lineman Charlie Gibbons, Ken Goff, Joe Hall, Manoog “Manny” Heditsian, Bob Hoder, Charles “Chuck” Hunt, Alec Hurwitz, Warner “Flip” Keaney, Matthew “Matty” Kearns, Chris Latos, Charles “Jigger” Lazarek, John Leach, and Albert “Joe” LeBoeuf, for whom the top annual award to URI’s male athlete is named;

Also, Bob Lepper, who served as an interim director of athletics; Terry Lynch, Bob Mairs, John Mantenuto, Ev McDaniel, Sylvester “Molly” McGee, Harold “Hal” Melkonian, John Messina, Bob Miller, Harold Moore; two-time, first-team academic All-America running-back Richard “Rick” Moser who played regularly on special teams for the Pittsburgh Steelers on two Super Bowl teams; Bob Mudge, Tom Mut, Dick Narcessian, John “Jack” O’Leary, Cliff Pace, Larry Panciera, Roger Pearson, Bob Peltier, Pasquale “Pat” Pezzelli, Bernard “Slick” Pina, Joe Pinto, Bill Poland, Grant Potter, Ken Potter, Milt Price, John Rego, Dameon Reilly, and John Rollins; Also, Bill Rowe, Bill Rutledge, Mike Sarkesian, Charles “Chuck” Scarpulla, Earl Shannon, Bob Sherman, Harold “Cap” Smith, Ray Stevens, John Sullivan, Bob “Big Moon” Taylor, Tony Tetro, Steve Tosches, Bill Tully, Bob Underhill, Jim Warren, Calvin “Cal” Whitfield, Norm Wilcox, Jeff Williams, Jim Wright and Tom Wright … each a URI Athletic Hall of Famer. And so many others down through the years that go into the annals of Rhode Island football history…names that come to mind such as John Anderson, Bobby Apgar, Charlie Babbitt, Dick Bell, Estes Benson, Ben Bottone, Charlie Bounty, Dennis Breen, Bill Britt, Mark Brockwell, John Bush, Cy Butler, Dan Callahan, Guy Carbone, Chris Cassara, All-America free-safety Mike Cassidy, Tom Cataldo, Lou D’Agostino, Pete Dalpe, Chy Davidson, Larry Deschene, T.J. DelSanto, Mark Dennen, Bob Donfield, Ray Draghetti, Ken Duval, Charlie Edmonds, Bob Ehrhardt, Greg Farland, Frank Ferrara, Frank Finizio, Greg Fournier, Steve Garofalo, Dick Grann, Ralph Guerriero, Michael Griffin, Dave Grimsich, and Henry Hill; Also, Tony Hill, Chris Hixson, and Terry Hogg, Brian Hunte, Dave Jamison, Eric Jenkins, James Jenkins, LaJhon Jones, Frantzy Jourdain, Chris Keneally, Brent Kaufman, Everett Keane, John Klumbach, Ken Kuzman, Shane Laisle, Bob Linder, Tom Marhefka, Frank Marinella, Ken Mastrole, Mike Matkevich, Paul McNulty, Frank Morey, Dennis Murphy, Bob Novelli, Dave O’Donnell, Tony Ozello, All-America offensive-tackle Rich Pelzer, Chris Poirier, Jim Pratt, Rich Remondino, Barney Rinaldi, and All-America tight-end Darren Rizzi

Also, Jim Roberson, Jon Rodgers, Bob Seccareccia, Leroy Shaw, Harvey Silvers, Pete Sinagra, Howie Small, Lance Small, All-America cornerback Kevin Smith, Bob Soderlund, Tom Spann, Leon Spinney, Greg Sturgis, Mark Swistak, Dennis Talbot, Skip Thomas, John Thompson, Shane Vergari, Matt Walker, All-America offensive-tackle Bob White, Dave Wienke, Ray Williams, Wendall Williams, Fearon Wright and Wayne Zdanowicz. Each gained various post-season honors during their starring careers at Kingston, and contributed in special ways to the overall success of the URI gridiron program throughout the years. The start of football at Rhode Island State College with student coaches in 1895; then in 1898, the late, renowned faculty member and URI Hall of Famer Marshall “Tip” Tyler took over the reins and coached for 10 seasons. Tyler Hall on the URI Kingston campus is named after him. A succession of coaches followed, until 1920, when the legendary, late Hall of Famer Frank “Menty” Keaney came on the scene and for the next 21 years his Rams won 70 games on the gridiron. Rhode Island played football on an unnamed, “informal” field on the plains, west of the main campus for the first 31 years

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was played at Kingston. The “Ram” was adopted as Rhode Island State College’s official mascot for all sports on March 8, 1923 with the first “live” Ram coming on the gridiron scene on November 21, 1929. Live mascots were housed on campus for many years until the 1960’s when it was no longer feasible to maintain a live animal. Since that time, a live mascot was used during only the 1974 season before being brought to life again in 1983. The origin of the mascot is believed to have involved the University’s historical agricultural thrust when the Institution was founded in 1892 as the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts under the Land Grant Act of 1862. In 1928, under the direction of Keaney, Meade Field was constructed, named 10 years later after the late Hall of Famer John “Jack” Meade ‘15, an influential engineer and State Legislator, and “built by hand” through the dint of back-breaking labor by athletes, students and others. The venerable stadium was completed in1933 to include a field house, and a year later, west concrete stands to hold about 1,000 fans and a small press box. The facility also featured a cinder running track, wooden east stands and eventually, end zone seating. The stadium “celebrates” its 77th year this fall. Then came that memorable moment in 1935 when Rhode Island defeated Brown (13-7) in varsity competition for the first time in history … in 1947 when the Rams became a charter member of the Yankee Conference, consisting then of the six New England Land-Grant Universities, and won their first League game ever, a 20-13 triumph over Massachusetts … in 1952 when Bob DiSpirito kicked the extra-point to beat Brown (7-6), breaking another winless drought against the Bruins, and finishing the season 7-1; That fall, the Rams shared a slice of the Conference title for the first time, winning the most games overall in 54 years of playing the sport, and then tying that mark in 1978 (7-3), again in 1982 (7-4), and smashing it in1984 and 1985, each year going 10-3…and the 1955 club, under the tutelage of legendary coach Harold “Hal” Kopp, which went undefeated during the regular season and played URI’s only official post-season bowl game, the Refrigerator Bowl, against Jacksonville State (losing 12-10) at Evansville, Ind.; In 1964 when the Rams played their first home night game at Mt. Pleasant Stadium in Providence beating Northeastern (20-11) … 1972 when Rhody trounced Hampton Institute (27-0) at Kingston in the only night contest played at Meade (portable lights were brought into the field) … and in 1973 when URI made more history as the first U.S. collegiate team to play American football on the European Continent, when the Rams defeated (36-6) a U.S. Air Force team at Frankfurt, Germany in a game dubbed “The Turkey Bowl.” The game was broadcast on radio throughout the World on the Voice of America and Armed Forces Radio Networks through the auspices of the URI Sports Network … 1975 when Rhode Island opened against St. Mary’s University of Halifax, Nova Scotia under the lights at Cranston Stadium, marking the first time in history that a Ram team played an international opponent in a regular season’s contest. Rhody won the game, 33-0 … and in 1977 when URI upset the then number-one NCAA Division II team in the nation, New Hampshire, in a 21-20 shocker at Kingston; In 1978, URI moved up to the then new NCAA football I-AA alignment, along with all Yankee Conference teams, while at the same time a new

look appeared on the Kingston Campus, as 50-row concrete, steel and aluminum stands and a new press box, along with concession and restroom facilities (in 1980), were installed on the east side of Meade Stadium, the seating capacity increased to about 9,000, including “free” seating on the lawns on either side of the west stands, and we saw Meade Stadium become a reality. Gone was the old cinder track and wooden stands, and end zone seating was a thing of the past. “Temporary” wooden bleachers were replaced by aluminum stands on the west side of the field on each side of the old concrete stands, and the east side became the “home bench” area. The flag grouping at the southwest corner of the stadium was dedicated in 1980 to former director of athletics and Hall of Famer Maurice “Mo” Zarchen. Then, in 1981, with the Yankee Conference winner gaining an automatic qualifier to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs, the Rams earned a berth with a turn-around season that resulted in a 4-1 Conference slate that tied for the League title. Rhody was assigned to play Idaho State in a first-round contest at Pocatello, as coach Bob Griffin returned to the scene of earlier triumphs, but the Rams lost the game (51-0) to the Bengals … 1982 when the team not only won seven games for the third time in history, but also had a record 13 players named as all-conference selections, and the late offensive-tackle Rich Pelzer was named as Rhode Island’s first I-AA All-America footballer.That same year, on September 18 at Orono, the Rams defeated Maine (58-55) in what was then the longest game in NCAA gridiron history at any level (six overtimes, 10 quarters, and a total game time of 3 hours, 46 minutes). It was the first overtime contest in conference annals. The contest was so unusual that the College Hall of Fame created a special exhibit in its behalf … 1983 when history was made as CBS-TV came to Kingston to regionally televise in New England the first TV game to be originated from Meade Stadium, and the Rams did themselves proud, defeating Maine (24-16) before a capacity crowd and vast television audience. Rhody fashioned its third straight winning season (6-4) that fall, while at the same time, the old press box on the west (visitors) side of the stadium, which was used for special presidential and athletic administration functions, had an upper-level photography/broadcasting deck added. A new computerized scoreboard was installed in 1986 and the presidential box was modernized in 1988. Then followed the “storybook” 1984 campaign which reached “fairy-tale” proportions with a 10-3 (all-time mark) record, national second place (best ever) final I-AA NCAA poll ranking, Eastern supremacy as the ECAC team-of-the-year, and winner of the Lambert-Meadowlands Cup (another first for URI), a share of the conference title (4-1 record) and advancement to the NCAA Playoffs for a second time in four seasons. The Rams lost (32-20) in the semifinals to eventual national champion Montana State in Big Sky Country at Bozeman on a frozen field. URI drew a first-round bye and defeated (23-17) Richmond at Kingston in a quarterfinal contest. On October 20, the largest crowd in Meade Stadium history (13,052) saw the Rams defeat a formidable Boston University eleven during the regular season, 22-7. A year later, Rhode Island repeated their 10-3 record, only to do it a bit better with the school’s first undefeated and untied (5-0) Conference title in 39 years of league

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URI FOOTBALL HISTORYplay, gaining the NCAA Playoffs, and ECAC team-of-the-year and Lambert-Meadowlands Cup plaudits once again, leading the country in passing (another first), going as far as the NCAA quarterfinals, losing (59-15) to eventual national runner-up Furman at Greenville, S.C. and finishing 7th in the nation’s I-AA poll. The Rams beat Akron (35-27) at Kingston to gain the quarterfinals. Rhody won a record eight straight during the course of the season, and URI teams had fashioned five winning seasons in a row for the only time in history. The 1986 season, although disappointing, nevertheless produced the number-one passing team in the Yankee Conference for a fourth straight year and marked the first formal League competition against Richmond and Delaware … in 1988, Rhody played the Yankee Conference’s newest member, Villanova, for the first time and a year later, made further history by hosting Villanova at Milan, Italy in a regular season league contest. It was the first game on Italian soil for U.S. collegiate teams. The Rams struggled for the next five campaigns, with Griffin succeeded at the head coaching helm by Floyd Keith who had a 7-4 record and finished first in the conference in 1995, to break the string. Rhode Island has had only one winning season since, when current coach Tim Stowers’ 2001 team was 8-3, the third most wins in a Ram campaign. Griffin concluded his 17 year career at Kingston with the most wins (79) in URI football history, and had the second longest tenure as a coach, next to Keaney’s 21 years at the helm. Griffin won 100 games in his head coaching career at Idaho State and URI. The “Menty’s” teams won 70 games. During the summer of 2000, the field house and west concrete grandstand and original press box were demolished to make room for the Ryan Center, reducing the current capacity of Meade Stadium to 5,180. For two seasons, the Rams used a tent in front of the Tootell Center as a locker room. When the Ryan Center opened in 2002, the new facility housed a state-of-the-art football locker room, modern athletic training room and a coach’s locker room. In 2006, after a fundraising drive was started to increase the seating capacity at Meade Stadium, over 2,300 new stands and chairback seating was opened on the West side of the stadium. Eventually, six additional teams would enter the conference, namely Boston University, Hofstra, James Madison, Northeastern, Towson and William & Mary, to bring the total number in the A-10 to 12 teams. On July 1, 1997 the Atlantic 10 Football Conference assumed operational control of the Yankee Conference, marking the end of a 50-year legacy. The latter League developed from the old New England College Conference of Intercollegiate Athletics. Vermont dropped football in 1974 and later, Boston University did likewise in 1997. In 1978, the Yankee Conference had disbanded in all sports with the exception of football. This season - the 2007 campaign - marks the first for CAA Football, which assumed the teams in the Atlantic 10.

And then there are the other coaches over the years … dedicated men such as the late Bill Beck who coached for five seasons … the late Paul Cieurzo, who held the reins for four campaigns during the difficult World War II years, retiring from the classroom in 1976 with 41 years of service to the University as senior member of the faculty … the late Hal Kopp, who has the winningest (.707) record at Kingston: 28-11-2 in five seasons, and even in retirement continued to aid the Ram coaching staff,

believed to be the oldest (well into his 80’s) active coach in the nation … he also spent 15 seasons as the radio color analyst on the URI Sports Network … Keaney, Cieurzo, Griffin and Kopp are each Hall of Famers … George Cobb, Jim Baldwin, Fred Murray, all deceased … Herb Maack who also coached five years, John Chironna, Jack Zilly for seven campaigns; Jack Gregory, coach for six seasons, Keith for seven seasons, and Stowers who begins his fifth campaign at URI this fall. And there are the directors of athletics … Keaney … the late Hall of Famer Fred Tootell, Cieurzo, Zarchen, Lepper, the late John Chuckran, Tom Dougan, McKinley Boston, Ron Petro and Tom McElroy. Part of the color and excitement must include the late internationally renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. A.A. “Savy” Savastano … the late nationally recognized athletic therapist Dick Cole, who spent 34 years at Kingston … the late legendary sports information directors Bill Mokray (13 years), Tom Doherty (27 years); Jim Norman (22 years), who doubled as play-by-play radio “Voice of the Rams” for both football and basketball for 34 years, and for whom the Meade Stadium press box was named in 2003. Cole, Doherty, Mokray, Norman and Savastano are URI Hall of Famers. There are many, many others who have contributed to the success of Rhody football over the years. The tradition and history are here and the next century on the Ram gridiron promises to be as memorable as the first 107 campaigns.

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The Greatest Teams - 1955

1955 (6-1-2)4-0-1 (1st) in Yankee Conference2-0-1 home, 4-0-1 away, 0-1 neutralCoach Hal Kopp

9/17 13-13 T at Northeastern9/24 7-0 W MAINE (4,000)10/1 13-13 T NEW HAMPSHIRE (4,000)10/8 16-0 W at Vermont (5,000)10/15 39-15 W at Massachusetts (4,500)10/22 19-7 W at Brown (16,000)10/29 20-7 W SPRINGFIELD (HC) (4,500)11/12 25-0 W at Connecticut (14,500)12/4 10-12 L Jacksonville State (N) (8,500) (RB)

RB- Refrigerator Bowl (Evansville, Ind.)

URI FOOTBALL HISTORY

After six consecutive losing seasons, coach Hal Kopp got the Rams back on track. In 1952, the Rams reversed the trend by posting a 7-1 mark. Rhode Island recorded back-to-back 6-2 worksheets in 1953 and 1954, finishing in a first-place tie and second place, respectively, in the Yankee Conference. In 1955 Rhode Island fans were enjoyed Rhode Island’s first (and only) bowl bid in school history. The Rams had gone through the regular season unbeaten for the first (and only) time, and the eyes of New England were upon them. The ears, anyway. In lieu of TV coverage, radio stations in Providence, Boston and Springfield would carry the game. There were only six bowls for the major teams back then and nine for the small-college crowd. Therefore, Rhode Island’s invitation to the eighth annual Refrigerator Bowl in Evansville, Ind. was a major accomplishment. The Rams had gone 6-0-2, tying two of their first three foes before outscoring the last five 119-29 and winning the Yankee Conference title. Their opponent, Jacksonville (Ala.) State, had gone 9-1 and shut out six straight rivals. As the Rams left for Indiana, morning classes were delayed for a rally on the quad to see them off. In a whirlwind, two-day drive, 1,011 students paid a nickel each to sign a telegram of encouragement. At the time, Evansville billed itself as “the refrigerator capital of the world,” and that wasn’t the only reason the name fit. Despite the bone-chilling bold, a respectable 8,500 fans showed up at the 13,000-seat Reitz Bowl on Friday afternoon, Dec. 4. Tickets ranged from $1.80 to an extravagant $3 for the best seat in the house. In an old-fashioned test of strength, Jacksonville State’s Billy Hicks smashed for 165 yards and Rhode Island’s Eddie DeSimone ran up the gut for 105. Chuck Hunt made 17 tackles for the Rams, and Jimmy Jerue gave them a 3-0 lead just before

halftime with a 38-yard field goal -- the first of his life. Rhode Island went back on top 10-6 in the third quarter with another field goal attempt -- a fake this time, with DeSimone hauling in a TD pass from Bob Sammartino. But Jacksonville State scored following a fumble in the final period. The Rams drove to the 10-yard line with 1:25 remaining before losing a fumble. Kopp was named New England coach of the year. Offensive tackle Charles Gibbons, center Charles Hunt, offensive tackle Robert Novelli and running back DiSimone, earned first-team All-Yankee Conference honors.

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1984 (10-3)4-1 (tie-1st) in Yankee Conference5-0 home, 5-3 awayCoach Bob Griffin

9/1 31-21 W HOWARD (3,520)9/8 31-10 W LAFAYETTE (6,858)9/15 0-19 L at Holy Cross (9,911)9/22 27-0 W at Maine (8,000)9/29 34-13 W at Brown (12,523)10/6 20-19 W MASSACHUSETTS (10,227)10/13 30-22 W at Northeastern (4,650)10/20 22-7 W BOSTON UNIV. (HC) (13,052)*10/27 24-16 W at Lehigh (12,500)11/3 12-14 L at New Hampshire (14,335)11/17 29-19 W at Connecticut (4,799)12/1 23-17 W RICHMOND (10,446)**12/8 20-32 L at Montana State (12,697)**

* - Largest crowd in Meade Stadium history** - NCAA I-AA Playoffs

URI FOOTBALL HISTORY

The Greatest Teams - 1984 After a season in which it captured the Yankee Conference Championship, Rhode Island finished second in the final NCAA Poll, the highest national ranking in school history. Coach Bob Griffin’s team won the Lambert-Meadowlands Cup emblematic of the top team in the East and earned the Yankee Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs. Behind URI's record-setting quarterback Tom Ehrhardt, the Rams were sixth in the nation in passing, averaging 306.5 yards per game through the air. The defensive unit was strong, as well. Rhode Island allowed just 16.1 points per game, third best in the ECAC. Griffin was named Yankee Conference coach of the year, Kodak Region I coach of the year,

New England Coach of the Year and Words Unlimited Coach of the Year. Ehrhardt was named All-American along with tight end Brian Forster. Ehrhardt, Forster, guard Greg Sturgis, wide receiver Dameon Reilly, defensive end Charlie Bounty and defensive back Tony Hill earned All-New England honors. Ehrhardt was named the Yankee Conference player of the year and Forster, Reilly, Sturgis, Bounty, Hill, linebacker Mark Brockwell, receiver Tony DiMaggio, offensive tackle Rich Capolongo, running back Rich Kelley, defensive lineman Bob Dana and defensive back Bernie Moran earned All-Yankee Conference recognition.

The 1984 Rams and the Record Book319 passes completed, second in school history; 559 passes attempted, second in school history; 3,985 yards passing, second in school history; 37 touchdown passes, second in school history; 974 plays, second in school history; 5,017 total yards, second in school history; 42 touchdowns, second in school history; 303 points scored, third in school history; 271 first downs, second in school history; 385.9 yards average total offense, fourth in school history; 8,087 average home attendance, fifth in school history

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Brian Forster Mike Cassidy

Tony DiMaggio

1985 (10-3)5-0 (1st) in Yankee Conference7-0 home, 3-3 awayCoach Bob Griffin

9/7 13-29 L at Delaware (15,465)9/14 46-0 W HOWARD (6,628)9/21 34-14 W MAINE (9,442)9/28 27-32 L at Brown (10,399)10/5 7-3 W at Massachusetts (6,871)10/12 45-38 W at Lehigh (13,500)10/19 34-19 W at Boston University (4,164)10/26 41-19 W LAFAYETTE (HC) (12,933)11/2 30-20 W NEW HAMPSHIRE (10,114)11/9 34-21 W NORTHEASTERN (9,421)11/16 56-42 W CONNECTICUT (8,897)11/30 35-27 W AKRON (7,317)*12/7 15-59 L at Furman (9,454)**- NCAA I-AA Playoffs

URI FOOTBALL HISTORYThe Greatest Teams - 1985 The 1985 edition of the Rams posted a 10-3 mark, equally the marks of the 1984 squad. Led by quarterback Tom Ehrhardt, the Rams repeated as Yankee Conference champion and won the Lambert-Meadowlands Cup for the second consecutive year. The Words Unlimited team of the year was undefeated in Yankee Conference play, posting a 5-0 mark. Coach Bob Griffin repeated as Yankee Conference coach of the year. He also was named Kodak Region I coach of the year, UPI New England coach of the year, Associated Press New England coach of the year and Words Unlimited coach of the year. Ehrhardt and tight end Brian Forster were named All-Americans for the second straight season and were joined by wide receiver Dameon Reilly and offensive tackle Bob White. Nine players earned All-New England recognition including Ehrhardt, Forster, White, Reilly, strong safety Guy Carbone, free safety Mike Cassidy, cornerback Ray Williams, defensive tackle Brad Carson and receiver Tony DiMaggio. Ehrhardt, Carson, Cassidy, Forster, Reilly, White and Williams all earned All-Yankee Conference honors, as well. 1985 Rams and the Record Book

419 passes completed, most in school history761 passes attempted, most in school history5,321 passing yards, most in school history47 touchdown passes, most in school history1,034 plays, most in school history6,037 total yards, most in school history58 touchdowns, most in school history417 points scored, most in school history344 first downs, most in school history464.4 yards average total offense, most in school history9,250 average home attendance, second most in school history

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RAM LEGENDS - FRANK KEANEYWhen most people think of Frank Keaney, they remember

racehorse basketball, fast-breaking offenses and the Rams piling up victory after victory on the hardwood.

But Keaney spent 21 years (1920-40) as Rhode Island’s head football coach, as well. He is the school’s second winningest coach registering 70 victories during his tenure. Inheriting a team that had posted a 0-7-1 record in 1919, he sought to rebuild the Rams, a process that would take three years. From 1929-36, Rhode Island posted winning records in seven of eight seasons, going 37-26-4 (.582) over that span.

His biggest win on the gridiron came on Oct. 5, 1935 when the Rams battled powerful Brown. The Rams had lost to the Bears 23 straight times and were shutout in the first 13 games between the two teams.

Such was the Rams’ record entering the contest against their intrastate rival. As coach Frank Keaney led his charges onto the Brown Stadium gridiron in from of 15,000 fans, a chorus of whistles and catcalls greeted their new Keaney Blue uniforms and white Kangaroo leather shoes, probably the first football team ever to be so attired.

As usual, Brown was favored against the Rams. The Rams had lost their first two games of the season without even scoring a point. Rhode Island lost the season-opener, 32-0, at Holy Cross before falling, 7-0, at Maine a week later. The game was the season-opener for Brown.

Brown had 80 players in uniform while the Rams dressed just 13. Despite their decided underdog status, Keaney had his team prepared for coach D.O. McLaughry’s Brown squad. The game was a thriller that is still talked about today as one of the greatest games ever between the two state teams.

Rhode Island marched 94 yards for a score in the first quarter and hit pay dirt on a nifty gallop by Bob Mudge to put the Rams ahead, 13-0, at halftime. Brown rallied and scored on a 65-yard lateral play in the third quarter to cut the lead to 13-7. But the stubborn Ram defense was never again threatened and a late interception by Justin McCarthy assured a victory for the Rams.

Pandemonium broke loose when the game ended. Keaney was carried the length of the field by his ecstatic players and the Rhode Island faithful. The victory celebration over the Ivy League power lasted several days with a dance celebration at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet, a campus rally on the Quad and a full Monday holiday for the entire college courtesy of college president, Carl Woodward.

A portly, wide-faced Irishman, Keaney belonged to the old fashioned school of coaching that stressed character over technique. “My psychology of it is that you’ve got to feel victory if you’re going to win,” he declared. To his players, he was fond of emphasizing the difference between Will to Win and Love to Lose. “As far as techniques of the game, he was probably the worst coach I ever had,” admitted one player. “But as far as being able to psyche teams up and get them ready for games, he was super. He had a great way with all his players, from the substitute to the star.”

To compensate for football teams that lacked size and number, Keaney stressed conditioning above all else, seeking both to outlast opponents and to minimize injuries. His players were expected to play every minute of every game.

Impatient with the conservative style of play then in fashion, he searched for ways to open up the game. In football he was one of the

first to employ the double wing formation, running it with double and triple backfield lateral plays that flabbergasted coaches who shrank from any thrown ball as if it were a live grenade. His baseball teams ran opponents dizzy. The fast break was but the logical extension of this impulse to basketball.

That Keaney cared more for the opinion of the fans than of his peers was made evident when he advised his fellow coaches at a New York luncheon, “Give the crowds action. If some coach puts up a screwy defense, use a screwier offense. Then if you lose, pivot and go home.” To critics of his style he said simply, “We don’t say we’re right, but you’ve got to stop us.”

During his long coaching and teaching tenure at Rhode Island - spanning more than four decades from the 1920s to the late 1940s - Keaney was constantly experimenting with new ideas both as a coach and as a chemist, as well as a foot hardener suitable, a potent-smelling lineament for aches and pains and distinctive school color “Keaney Blue,” also known as “Rhody Blue.”

Before Keaney concocted his special shade of powdery blue, Rhode Island’s colors had been white and royal blue. But Keaney, after spending considerable time mixing a variety of blue and white paints together in his on-campus laboratory, came up with his special shade of blue - a light, soft tint all but the same color as the University of North Carolina’s. Later, after Keaney Gym was finished in 1953, Keaney set up a small lab in a third floor room - now the football player’s lounge - in the southwestern corner of the building where he refined the color to match his exacting specifications.

But Keaney had something more; a restless imagination and a flair for showmanship. The fast break in basketball was not the only product of his maverick genius; there was a touch of originality in everything he did. A native of Boston, Keaney graduated from Bates in 1911. He played professional baseball and coached high school before coming to Rhode Island in 1920 as athletic director, coach of all sports and chemistry instructor. Later he even produced a light blue dye, known as “Keaney blue,” a color his teams wore in place of the school’s official color, royal blue.

In 28 years as Rhode Island’s legendary basketball coach, Keaney compiled an impressive 401-124 record, but the numbers scarcely measure his achievement. He turned a game of patterned plodding into forty minutes of frenzied excitement while overflow crowds, delighted at the spectacle of racehorse basketball, howled their approval. In an era when most teams did well to score 40 or 50 points a game, Rhode Island averaged nearly 80 and routinely led the nation in scoring.

Keaney retired from active coaching in 1948 and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960, the Hall of Fame’s second year. Frank William Keaney passed away on Oct. 10, 1967 at the age of 81.

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RAM LEGENDS - HAL KOPPIn May, 1998, Hal Kopp, the winningest football coach in

Rhode Island annals, passed away at the age of 89. Never far from the gridiron, he served as an honorary assistant coach and helped broadcast Rhode Island football games on radio well into his 80s and was a regular at Ram football games until 1997.

Growing up at Perry Point, Md., Kopp was exposed to the world of athletics at an early age. Perry Point was a government reservation hospital complex, and at the end of World War I, the reservation employed Kopp’s father and kept young Hal busy in the recreation program.

He learned to play baseball, mostly because he was the only one who would agree to crouch down behind the plate and catch the patients who were pitching. Many of the patients were shell-shocked from the war, others had lung damage from mustard gas attacks, and others were unbalanced for one reason or another. But every afternoon during the summer, the instructors would be out on the field working with the patients. And soon Kopp became a regular in their games.

In high school, he also took up basketball, soccer and football, and it wasn’t long before people started noticing the talented halfback’s gift for the gridiron game. By his senior year, he decided he would attend Western Maryland and play his college ball for coach Dick Harlow. A rugged 200-pound running back, Kopp gained more yards against archrival Maryland in his sophomore season than the entire Terrapin backfield. In his senior season, he was selected to play in the very first North-South game, held in Baltimore Stadium. Aligned with players from Mississippi, Alabama and throughout the deep South, Kopp and his teammates practiced for one week before the big game. The day of the game, it snowed six inches. For many of his teammates it was the first time they had seen snow.

A good spring on the baseball diamond helped him garner a brief stint with the Washington Senators after college, but after bouncing around the baseball ranks, he stumbled upon a coaching opportunity with a former Harlow assistant, Jimmy Dunn at Northeastern, and decided to take it. He had married his college sweetheart, June, and the couple had one son, Karl.

His career in coaching was just beginning to take hold when Pearl Harbor was bombed, plunging the United States into World War II. Kopp was called up as a first lieutenant and saw combat during the allied invasion of North Africa. But his coaching career was not on hold for the duration. Due to a stateside assignment, he was able to return home to serve as assistant coach at Brown and later at Connecticut, while head of the ROTC program. After the war ended, Kopp was discharged from the Army and joined Harlow as a line coach at Harvard. After Harlow’s retirement from coaching, Kopp spent a spring with Connecticut, before moving on to Yale. When Connecticut began looking for a new head coach, Kopp believed his time had come. What he didn’t know was that a former teammate would beat him out for the job.

But all was not lost. At the same time, Rhode Island, a small school whose football program was third in athletic importance to basketball and track, was shopping for a head coach. Kopp was offered the job at his first meeting with Vice President Dr. Harold Browning. In his book, “I’ve Seen It All,” Kopp writes about his first few months at the URI helm: “With the help of the alumni secretary, Charlie Hall, the student body and Dr. Browning, I was able to offer a few scholarships to some of the Rhode Island high school players.

“I want to say that I had 21 boys and 19 sea gulls at our first spring practice. Despite my small squad, we did well the first year. In fact, we beat the University of Connecticut. It was great satisfaction to me — beating (new Connecticut head coach) Art Valpey. While I was at Rhode Island, my teams never lost to Connecticut, Massachusetts or Northeastern. We also won three out of four games with Brown.”

After a 3-5 season in 1950, Kopp was called back to serve in the Korean War. Reassured his job would be secure when he returned, he reported to Fort Benning, Ga., where he became the athletic officer of the Combat Training Center and coached

football and basketball. When the time came for duty assignments, Kopp was sent to Bremerhaven, Germany to begin a football program for morale purposes. When he returned to URI in 1952, he had only a week to get his players ready for the annual Brown game. His team defeated Brown for the first time in 14 years, and Kopp was on his way. The 7-1 record of his 1952 team was the best in school history.

He spent five seasons at the URI helm, and compiled a 28-11-2 record, the best winning percentage in URI coaching history. He was named the Rhode Island Coach of the Year three times and the New England Coach of the Year in 1955, after piloting his team through an undefeated regular season and then to a postseason game at the Refrigerator Bowl in Evansville, Ind.

In 1956, Kopp left Rhode Island to become the first non-Mormon head coach at Brigham Young. After three seasons there, the Mormon lifestyle and the Hal Kopp philosophies were blending like oil and water. He knew his contract would not be renewed and so he accepted a position at Boston University as a line coach.

After coaching eight colleges, two all-star games, and two army teams, Kopp decided in 1964 to give high school coaching a try. He was just as successful in the high school ranks, putting together an undefeated season in 1965 and continuing until the 1971 season. Then, he decided to retire from coaching. But giving up an addiction cold turkey is never easy; and so when Bentley called to say they were going to start a program, the renowned coach knew he had to help. He spent the next five seasons developing Bentley into a solid Division III program.

June and Hal both retired from the Massachusetts school system at the same time, moving back home to Narragansett. But he still couldn’t stay away from the game — after all, it had been his life for nearly 70 years. In 1993, he surpassed Amos Alonzo Stagg’s longevity record as the oldest active coach in college football.

In his own words, Hal Kopp’s career was symbolized by “So many friends. So many victories. So much in the ‘win’ column, after all.”

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RAM LEGENDS - PAT ABBRUZZIIt has been said that persistence pays off. For Rhode Island

football coach Hal Kopp, it sure did. If it was not for his determination in recruiting local high school star Pasquale “Pat” Abbruzzi to spend his Saturday afternoons on the grass of Meade Stadium, Abbruzzi might have set a number of rushing records at Notre Dame or Boston College.

A life-long native of Warren, R.I., Abbruzzi was a three-sport star athlete in football, basketball and baseball at Warren High. Kopp had his eye on the All-State player and convinced the local product to stay in Rhode Island even though the Fighting Irish and Eagles had a heavy interest in him.

Kopp knew Abbruzzi had the potential to be good back, one to build his offense around and he didn’t want this prized recruit to slip away. His hard-nosed pile-driving style of running, reminiscent of John Riggins and Earl Campbell, was tailor-made for Kopp’s style of ball-control offense.

“He was the reason why I went to the University of Rhode Island,” said Abbruzzi.

The 5-foot-9, 206-pound Abbruzzi was a hard-nosed, rock solid player who had the physical stature to take the constant pounding that he would take on a weekly basis.

In his four years at URI, the Rams had a 22-10 (.710) record and earned shares of the Yankee Conference title twice. In his freshman season, Abbruzzi recorded the longest run from scrimmage with a 99-yard touchdown run in the third game of the season against New Hampshire. The mark still stands today.

In the Rams’ 27-7 win at New Hampshire on October 4, 1952, Abbruzzi was the story as he bulldozed his way for three touchdowns and set a single-game record of 306 rushing yards, a record that has never been equaled. He finished the season with eight touchdowns, rushing for 1,189 yards (then a school record).

He started his third year in the Rams’ backfield with two touchdowns versus Northeastern in the season-opener. By the time the 1953 campaign ended, he had rambled for 959 yards on 170 carries (5.6 yards per carry) and scored a touchdown in each of the Rams’ eight games that year.

In his senior year, a nagging ankle injury suffered in the season opener at Northeastern slowed him all season. But in his final game of his Ram career, Abbruzzi ran for 221 yards and two touchdowns in a 20-0 win over Connecticut. A fitting ending to a remarkable career.

Abbruzzi left a lasting impression on the Ram record books. He is URI’s all-time ground gainer with 3,389 yards on 562 carries, is the leader in career touchdowns (25) and is fourth in career points (150). At Rhode Island, he established himself as the greatest back in team history and one of the best ever from the state.

The Rams’ Little All-American in 1953 and ’54, Abbruzzi holds a dozen New England, Yankee Conference and Rhode Island rushing records. Many of the URI records that he broke were held by his brother, “Duke,” who played on the Rams from 1937-41.

Abbruzzi is the only player in the history of the Yankee Conference to be selected to the All-Conference team. He was selected the Rhode Island Athlete of the Year in 1953 and Rhode Island Italian-American Athlete of the Year in 1953 and 1954. In addition, he was also chosen as an All-New England selection twice.

After his illustrious career at URI, Abbruzzi opted to take his talents north of the border to Montreal, Canada. Despite being drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the third round in 1953, he decided on Canada because of a conflict regarding a bonus. Abbruzzi chose to play for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. He played four seasons in Montreal and became one of the greatest all-time players in Canadian Football history.

In his first year, he recorded eight 100-yard games and subsequently was named the Canadian Football League’s Player-of-the-Year in 1955. A member of the Alouettes’ Hall-of-Fame, Abbruzzi holds a number of team records and was named to the league’s All-Pro team each season.

He played for the Alouettes from in 1955-58, and holds the team record for rushing touchdowns in a game with four (at Toronto, Oct. 22, 1955) and is second on the all-time list in rushing with 3,749 yards, carries (700), 100-yard games (11) and touchdowns (45).

In his first two seasons, Abbruzzi set the team record for touchdowns in a season with 19 in his first year and then broke his own record with 20 the following season. He shares the record for points in a game with 24 versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on September 22, 1956. In his first season, he tied the team record for touchdowns in a game with four on two different occasions (versus Hamilton and Toronto) and recorded another four touchdown game the next year against the Tiger-Cats (September 22, 1956).

In three of his four seasons, Abbruzzi led the Alouettes in rushing. He ran for 1,248 yards in 1956, 1,062 in 1957 and 809 in 1957. He holds the team records for rushing touchdowns in a season with 17 and for the most touchdowns in a season by a rookie.

In 1972, Abbruzzi’s feats were recognized as he was inducted into the University of Rhode Island Athletic Hall of Fame and he was inducted into the Providence Gridiron Club Hall of Fame in 1976.

After his playing days, Abbruzzi still stayed involved in the game he loved. He was a physical education teacher for 30 years and was a successful football coach for 26 years at his alma mater, Warren High School. He built the football program into one of the most respected programs on and off the field. His teams won a total of nine divisional and state championships, including a winning streak of 34 consecutive regular-season victories during the 1970s. He was honored as the Rhode Island School Boy Coach-of-the-Year in 1975. In addition, he is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

In his illustrious football career on the high school, collegiate and professional levels, Pat Abbruzzi left a lasting impression on the game both in the United States and Canada. Abbruzzi, who passed away on June 3, 1998 will be remembered as one of the best football players in Rhode Island gridiron history.

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RAM LEGENDS - TOM EHRHARDT

It has been more than a decade since Rhode Island quarterback Tom Ehrhardt and his outstanding supporting cast made back-to-back appearances in the NCAA I-AA playoffs, but if any memories are eternal, then the 1984 and 1985 Ram teams not only etched their place in the Rhode Island record books, but also in the minds of their faithful fans.

Those two teams are a part of Rhode Island lore, and the atmosphere surrounding them permeated throughout the state and the region. “I remember thinking that URI was never going to lose when he (Ehrhardt) was in the game,” said Ram alumnus and assistant gymnastics coach Mike Franco. “You had a sense that he would get it done. He had an intangible quality that allowed him to put his team over the top and he and (Brian) Forster were a great tandem.”

The 1984 and 1985 teams combined for a 20-6 record, won two Yankee Conference Championships, and won two NCAA playoff games - the last Ram teams to make the post-season. Ehrhardt is quick though to credit his teammates for the teams’ success. “Our offensive line was strong, we had a solid defense and great receivers,” said Ehrhardt, who holds every Ram passing record after spending just two years at Rhode Island.

Ehrhardt and his golden arm transferred to Kingston from then Division II C.W. Post because he liked coach Bob Griffin’s pass oriented offensive style. But in his first start for the Rams in 1984, he was far from great, completing just seven of 14 passes for 71 yards and suffered two interceptions in a 31-21 win over Howard - a game he left injured in the third quarter.

Following a win over Lafayette in his second game and a loss to Holy Cross in week three, Ehrhardt began to click. He passed for 272 yards and two touchdowns as the Rams blasted Maine 27-0. A week later, he showed his prowess, throwing for 410 yards and five touchdowns in a 34-13 rout of state rival Brown.

The Rams rolled through their schedule unscathed for the next four weeks as Ehrhardt had passing performances of 408 yards against Massachusetts and 425 versus Northeastern. With an 8-1 record and a perfect Yankee Conference mark, the Rams traveled to Durham, New Hampshire and dropped a 14-12 decision to the Wildcats. In the final week of the regular season, Ehrhardt tossed three touchdown passes to Dameon Reilly and one to Bob Donfield in a 29-19 win over Connecticut giving the Rams the league title.

After an opening round playoff bye, Rhode Island hosted Richmond at Meade Stadium. Ehrhardt, who along with Griffin were inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996, rose to the occasion. The Rhode Island signal-caller completed 34-of-53 passes for 389 yards and Forster caught a school record 18 passes as Rhode Island downed the Spiders 23-17 setting up a semifinal match-up at Montana State.

Like Ehrhardt’s first game in Keaney blue, the last game of the 1984 season is one he wishes he could forget. With the Rams leading 20-18, Ehrhardt forced a pass that was intercepted on the Montana State three-yard line and returned 97 yards for a touchdown. Rhode Island did not recover, fumbling the ensuing kickoff to set up another Bobcat score. The Rams lost 32-20. “I still have the tape of that game,” said Ehrhardt. “You look at it and say ‘Why did you throw it?’ That interception probably cost us the national championship.”

If the end of the 1984 season was disappointing, 1985 started off even worse for Ehrhardt and the heralded Rams. Three plays into the season-opener against Delaware, Ehrhardt left with an injured hip pointer and the Rams fell to the Blue Hens 29-13. Rhode Island also lost All-America defensive back Tony Hill for the season on the fourth defensive play of the game when he fractured his arm.

With Ehrhardt out of action against Howard in the next game, backup quarterback Greg Farland stepped in and threw two touchdown passes and the defense stepped up its play in a 46-0 drubbing of the Bison.

The return of Ehrhardt in week three saw him throw for 357 yards in a 34-14 win over Maine, but the following week, Brown would avenge their 1984 loss with a 32-27

win over Rhode Island despite 461 yards passing by Ehrhardt. Forster tied his own record of 18 catches for another record 327 yards

in the loss.As they did in 1984, the Rams went on a tear, winning their next seven games to

finish the regular season at 9-2. Ehrhardt connected for 520 yards passing in a 45-38 win over Lehigh. It was November 16, 1985 when the Rams hosted the Huskies with an undefeated Yankee Conference season hanging in the balance, and after Ehrhardt hit for two first quarter TD passes and a 14-0 lead, it looked like Rhode Island was in control. Connecticut responded with five straight touchdowns and a 35-14 lead. At the half, the Rams trailed 42-28. The URI defense responded in the second half by shutting down the Husky attack while Ehrhardt continued to work his magic as he tossed four more touchdown passes after the break and the Rams rolled to a 56-42 win and the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA playoffs.

Ehrhardt’s 566 yards passing set a new school standard as were his eight touchdown passes and his .667 passing percentage. Forster, who was named to the Yankee Conference all-time team, caught 16 passes for 205 yards and Reilly hauled in nine passes for 204 yards in the game.

“That was a memorable game,” said a modest Ehrhardt, “because we fell behind by 21 points and came back and won to have an undefeated conference season.”

Rhode Island opened the playoffs with a 35-27 win over Akron in Kingston and Ehrhardt was sizzling as he completed a school record 43 passes. In round two, the Rhode Island signal-caller was picked off six times in a 59-15 loss to Furman. He completed 39 of a record 78 attempts, but the interceptions, of which one was returned for a touchdown, led to the end of the season and Ehrhardt’s impressive career.

“It was great experience,” Ehrhardt, the only Rhode Island football player ever to have their uniform number (12) retired, said later. “As you get older and you work and have a family, you look back and appreciate it. That was really neat and I was lucky to experience it and we were fortunate to have a great team.”

A great team led by a great player which left great memories and set a few records along the way.

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ALL-TIME LETTERMENA Louis J. Abbruzzi 1939-41Pasquale J. Abbruzzi 1951-54David J. Abdinoor 1969Ibrahim Abdul-Matin 1996-98Manuel B. Abilheira 1964-65George W. Accomanda 1952-54Mike Achin 1976, 1980Arthur Adamopolous 1949Anthony Adams 1986-88James N. Adams Jr. 1956-58Jim Adams 1981-83Bernard Ahrens 1909-10, 1913Robert W. Albanese 1937-38David Allen 1942Lewis L. Allen Jr. 1936-37Robert Allen 1988Tim Allen 2006Joseph D. Almonte 1956-58Tibera G. Aloma 1901Donald C. Almy 1952-54Andre Anderson 2002-05John Anderson 1972, 1974-75Richard T. Andrew 1967-68Alton B. Andrews 1946-49Robert M. Andreoli 1953Andrew Angel 1976Charles E. Anquilly 1909-10Justin Anselmo 2005Kazar Apkarian 1953, 1955-56Bobby Apgar 1993-95Ray Apo 1984-85Nicholas Apostolou 1947Alan Arbruse 1961-63Richard Archambault 1966Clinton Armstrong 1925-27Benjamin H. Arnold 1905Walter Augustyn 1976John Avento 1975-76

B Charles Babbitt 1978-80Bryan E. Babcock 1967-68Carlos Bacon 1908Mike Bailey 1978Jeff Ball 2005-06Joseph E. Balog 1969Richard Bambrick 1987Arthur H. Barber 1907Richard L. Barber 1925-27Ray Barker 2002-03Jeff Barlow 1984-86Ronald Barlow 1975Jamal Barnes 2001-02, 2004Dennis Barry 1913Henry Bartels 1917-18William F. Baxter 1960-61Dustin Bayer 2001-04Joe Bean 1992-93Kyle Beck 1999, 2002-03William Beck Jr. 1923Edward C. Becker 1946-48Lucien Belanger 1993-1995Robert H. Belisle 1936-38Art Bell 1982-83Dick Bell 1976-78Joe Bellini 2006Frank Bellino 1942Jeff Belton 1976-77John Belviso 1974-76Russell Bemetli 1942John A. Bencivenga 1970Greg Benjamin 1986-89

Roland Benjamin 1965-66Estes Benson 1976-78Dana Bent 1967Dave Bernard 1978-80Allan Bernstein 1947-49J.R. Betty 1907W.N. Berry 1905-06Charles Bertwell 1941Roland J. Bettez Jr. 1959-61Carle Bigelow 1913Matt Birkett 1998-99William Bjerke 1966Kirk Blackmon 2006Robert E. Blake 1926-27Michael Bland 2005-06Walter J. Blecharczyk 1939-41, 1943Gregory J. Bogdanich 1968-69Harry D. Bogosian Jr. 1955-57George J. Boitano 1953-55Steve R. Bokser 1962-64Bill Bonitati 1980-82Phil Boorda 2002-03Michael Borassi 1967Sumner Bornstein 1952Clifford Bosworth 1924-26Ben Bottone 1976-79Paul Boudreau 1963Arthur H. Boulet 1958Charles Bounty 1983-84Jordan Bowers 2002-05Alonzo Boyd 1994-95Brandon Bradshaw 1996-99John A. Bradshaw 1931Neal A. Bradstreet 1952-54Steve Brady 1992-93Richard A. Brandolini 1953-54Larry Brantley 2004-06Raymond Braszo 1972-74Dennis Breen 1969-71Eugene Brennan 1970-71Henry Z. Brenner 1953-55Walter Bressette 1948John C. Brickley 1971Paul A. Bricoccoli 1964-66Frank Briden 1910, 1913-14Norman H. Bridge 1942-43William H. Briggs 1905Wesley Brigham 1914-15Melvin H. Brightman 1917-18John Bristow 1901-03William Britt 1973-75Kurt Brockwell 1986-89Mark Brockwell 1981-84Rockie Bromell 1982-83Joe Brooks 1978-80Mike Bross 1989-92Bill Brown 1986-88C. Kendrick Brown 1926-27Donald M. Brown 1958-59Keith Brown 2002-03, 2005William H. Brown 1924Ralph Browning 1949Robert Bruce 1928-29Anthony R. Bruno 1961William Bryant 1964-65Scott Buchanan 1999Mark Buckley 1986-89Joseph Buesing 1963-65Rudy Bulgar 1997-98Ralph Bumpus 1931Gustin L. Buonaiuto 1950-51Paul S. Burgess 1909-10James F. Burke 1971Walter L. Burns 1956

John Bush 1995-98Cy Butler 1993-95John Butler 2006Larry Butler 1978-79Robert T. Butler 1952

C Richard A. Cahill 1954-55Gerald Caito 1962-63Steve Caizzi 1980-82, 1983Brian Calascibetta 1992-93Seth Caldwell 1914Roy P. Call 1917-18, 1921Daniel Callahan 1973Edward Callahan 1964Billy Calloway 1999-00Chad Campbell 2002, 2005-2006John Campenni 1999-02Robert Cannon 1975Nattie Capalbo 1929, 1932-33Sylvester A. Capalbo 1933-34Rich Capolongo 1983-84Albert J. Cappalli 1955-56Chris Caramanico 1987Guy Carbone 1982-85John Carbone 1985-86Arthur Carlin 1939-40, 1947-48Welcome S. Carmichael 1896Paul Carney 1968-69Albert Carpenter 1939-41Benjamin Carpenter 1896James Carr 1930-32Ryan Carstens 1994-97Raheem Carter 2002-03Rashaad Carter 2003-04Terrence Carter 1994John Caruso 1989-91Harold W. Case 1896Joe Casey 2005-06John Casey 1936Brad Carson 1983-84Chris Cassara 1988-91Derek Cassidy 2005-06Mike Cassidy 1983-85Kurt Caster 2003Francis Castrovillari 1933-35Lawrence Caswell 1967-68Thomas M. Cataldo 1968-70William Catone 1970-71Richard Cavanaugh 1923John Cawley 1950-51John Cearroccia 1942Vince Ceraso 1998Eric Cervone 2006Paul Chabot 1990Brian Chaisson 1988-90Roger A. Chambers 1958Rod Chance 2001-05George Chandler 1923Hollis Chapman 1979-82Grant Charles 1974-76Raymond E. Charron 1958-59Nathan Chase 1923Joe Chece 2003Jeff Chenard 1982-84Justin Cherry 2003-04Vincent K. Chesto 1953Andrew Christensen 1924-25Walter Christensen 1973-75Jason Christopher 1996-99John J. Christy 1938Paul Cieurzo 1930-31Steve Cimalore 1978-79

Bill Civitella 1983-84Doug Clark 1988-91Jesse Clark 1995-97Frederick Clarke 1924Latham Clarke 1901-03Rollin G. Clarke 1901William C. Clarke 1896Steve Claypoole 1988Gerald Cleary 1926Lloyd Clemons 1994Cory Cloud 1990, 1992Robert Coates 1940-41Pasquale Codola 1942Mike Coffas 1996-98Aaron Cohen 1970Bryan Colahan 2000-03Harold V. Coleman 1923Carlo Colesanti 1976Charles Collins 1933Everett Collins 1934Arnold Collinson 1930Curtis Collinson 1931-33Henry Collinson 1931Stephen W. Collis 1967-69Rich Collum 1996-97Kim Conlee 1972-73Dave Conlin 1980-81Gene Connors 2003William Conners 1923Bernard Connolly 1920-23John H. Connors 1953-55Owen R. Conroy 1926-29George Conti 1939-41, 1943James Conway 1972Clarence Conyers 1916Roy Conyrs 1941-42C. Milton Cook 1936Todd Cook 1988-90Edward Cooney 1924-25

Stuart T. Cooper 1938Robert H. Corbett 1958Ralph Cordisco 1965Clay Cornell 2003Brian Corvese 1978-79Pasquale Costeldi 1939Brian Cote 1982-83James R. Cotter 1971-73Todd Coviello 1988-91Shaun Covington 1978Edward Cox 1933Monty Coyne 1991-92Henry J. Cragan 1929-30Robert L. Cragan 1931-32James M. Craig 1906-09Frederick K. Crandall 1905-08John Crawford 1978-79Raymond Crawford 1939Colin Cree 1990Victor Crenshaw 1999, 2002-03Steve Crone 1973-75Robert Crudup 2006Mark Cruise 1978-80Kane Crume 2005-2006Carnelius Cruz 1994-97Frank J. Cuddy 1965-66George Cuddy 1970Robert Cudworth 1954Paul Cugno 1982Edmund D. Cullen 1896Mike Cummings 2003-04Robert W. Cummings 1910Albert R. Cupello 1938Armand A. Cure 1941-43Matt Curran 1978-79Benjamin R. Curtis 1946-49Craig S. Curtis 1964-65Robert R. Curtis 1947-48

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ALL-TIME LETTERMEN

D Lou D’Agostino 1993-95Peter G. Dalpe 1955-57Raymond Dalton 1947John Daly 1985William M. Daly 1952Anthony D’Amico 1949Bob Dana 1983-84Carl Daniel 2006Dieudonne D. Daubney 1955-57Edgar G. David 1910-13Joseph R. David 1930Chy Davidson 1978-79Donald K. Davidson 1929-30Henry Davis 1914-15Jayson Davis 2002-05Art D’Ercole 1992-93Daniel Dean 1964-65Romeo A. DeBucci 1927Anoclithe DeCesare 1939-40Fred Dechany 1925William Dechanz 1928Jesse DeCosta 1966Joseph A. DeFalco 1964-66Leduco DelGizzo 1946Nick Del Grosso 2005-2006Jason DeLawrence 1997Morton Delozier 1975-77T.J. DelSanto 1980-82Tony DeLuca 1980-83Robert DelVecchio 1964Anthony DeMatteo 1962-64Fran Dempsey 2005-06Mark Dennen 1981-83Grant Denniston 1970-72Jeff Denny 1984-85Anthony DePetrillo 1937-38Joseph DeRita 1931-34

Rob DeSalvo 1993-95Lawrence T. Deschene 1952-54Scott DeSilva 1982-84Chris DeSimone 1998Manny DeSousa 1997Bob Deutsch 1976-77John Devaney 1968-70William Devin 1964Lincoln Dexter 1931Crawford Deyo 1966Jeremy DiBasio 2003Chris Dickerson 2005-06Harold Dickens 1973-74David E. Dickey 1959Mark DiGangi 1978David DiGiacomo 1989-91Tom Dilatush 1901Tony DiMaggio 1983-85Richard Dimock 1931Louis D’Iorio 1936-37Frank A. DiPiro 1954-55Bob DiSano 1976-77, 1979-80Edward L. DiSimone 1954-56Robert DiSpirito 1950-53Eric Dober 1949-51Kevin Dobrzynski 1994-95Rowland Dodge 1917-18William M. Dolan 1968-70William O. Dolan Jr. 1934-35Everett Doll 1947Walter Doll 1910-13Walter Doll Jr. 1938James Donald Jr. 1925Bob Donfield 1984-86Jim Donnelly 1984-85Sean Donovan 1988-91Pete Doremus 1989-92Alfonso Dormu 2005

Tredell Dorsey 1996-98Tim Dougherty 1981-83R.S. Doughty 1896Andre Douglas 2005Victor Dow 1901Raymond Draghetti 1926-28Walter Drapala 1966Joseph D. Drew 1905-08Brian Droney 1997-00Warren Dubee 1939-42James Duff 1939-40Mike Duffley 1996-97Gus Duffy 1989Jim Duggan 1975-78John Duksta 1933-35Chris Duncan 2002-05Mark Duncan 1989-90, 1992Leslie L. Dunham 1917-18Rene Duranleau 1938-39Matt Durgin 1987-88Gerald Dusanenko 1964-66Kenneth Duval 1975-77Donald Dwyer 1941-43Mike Dwyer 1981-82

E Salvatore Eacuello 1942-43E. Cecil Eastwood 1920-21Robert A. Ebbs 1915, 1917-18Cameron Eberheim 1998-01Andrew Eberspaecher 1999Edward Edgar 1947-48Charles Edmonds 1916Eugene Edwards 1954Kyle Edwards 2003-06Ryan Edwards 1995Raji El-Amin 2006Robert Elliot 1937John Ellis 1979-81Ramone Ellis 1996-97, 1999-00Adam Elmore 2003-05Andrew Elsing 2000-03Jared Elwell 1994-97J.R. Emmitt 1896Marshall Englebrook 1975Orvil J. Engott 1968-69Melvin Entin 1934Robert R. Ehrhardt 1969-71Tom Ehrhardt 1984-85Tolbert Evans 2006

F Richard Fairman 1949Robert Falkenbach 1973Mano Fannopoulos 1998-01Greg Farland 1984-86Mizraim Farley 2005-06Raymond Farnham 1921-23Paul T. Faulkner 1962Gerry Favreau 1980-83Thomas Fay 1969Harold Fayerweather 1956-57Martin Feeley 1972-73Mike Feeley 1978-79Jamal Felton 1999Thomas Fera 1947Mike Fernandes 2002Robert Ferrando 1975Frank Ferrara 1994-96, 1998Ryan Ferrelli 1992Jay Russell Ferry 1905-06Brian Field 1988-92

Clesson H. Field 1907-08Frank Finizio 1961-63John Fishel 1981-82John F. Fisher 1933-35Paul Fitzgerald 1955-57Guleb Flagg 1901-03Charles Flaherty 1930-31Arthur Flori 1939-42Fabian Flori 1980-81Ronald Fluellen 1999Frederick Flynn 1923Maurice Flynn 1941Jeremy Fountaine 2003Michael J. Forbes 1969-71Ricky Ford 1988-90Brian Forster 1983-85, 1987David A. Forsythe 1966Richard Fort 1941Chip Forte 1979-80William D. Fortune 1960Emerson Foster 1987-88Frank Foti 2006Jeremy Fountain 2002Greg Fournier 1991-94Richard Fournier 1941Dave Frageorgia 1978-79Michael Franchuck 1947Edward J. Fratto 1952-54Jon Freedman 1972Howard French 1939-40Mark R. Friedman 1965-66Chris Fulton 1988-91Stephen R. Fulton 1969-71Stephen R. Furness 1969-71

G Reginald Gadrow 1950-51Colin Gallagher 2003-06Thomas Gallagher 1975-77Daniel F. Galvin 1927-29Robert Gamble 1963-65William A. Gannon 1927-28Charles S. Gardner 1920, 1921-23William Gardner 1968Steve B. Garofalo 1971-73Tony Garofalo 1990-93Lawrence Gates 1939-40Richard F. Gaugh 1952-53Donald Gavin 1948-51Rich Gedeon 1992Stanley Geiger 1975-76Frank Geiselman 1966-67James E. Gerlach 1956-58Norman Gesick 1937Paul Ghilani 1986-88Chris Giacone 2003Andrew Giagrande 1972Bryan Giannecchini 2004-06Charles E. Gibbons 1954-56Teddy Gibbons 2001-04Ralph Gibbs 1916-18William R. Gibbs 1917Karim Gibson 1996-99Willis Gifford 1924-26David Giles 1971-73Warren Gilkey 1923Harrie C. Gill 1930-32Jean Gilman 1905John Gilman 1985-88Ed Givens 1980-83Marvin Glaubach 1961-63John Glynn 1914Kenneth Goff 1930-33

Daniel J. Goldstein 1970-71Leon Golenbruski 1946Duke Golz 1998, 2000-01Dan Goodman 2006Effy Gottlieb 1997, 99John Gouin 1972-74Carl Gourgues 1999Richard M. Gourley 1955-57Herman Grabert 1952Rod Graham 1979Walter S. Gralton 1927Richard A. Grann 1953-55Noel Grant 2002Mike Grasso 1998Eric Gray 2000-01Virgil Gray 2003-06Jason Green 2003-04Luther Green 2000-03Russ Green 1988-90Herbert Greene 1969Everett J. Greer 1959-61John Gregg 1969-71Thomas Grega 1968Andy Gresh 1994-95Damien Gresko 2004-06Rory Gribbin 1973Isaiah Grier 2000-01Michael Griffin 1983, 1985-86Mark J. Grillo 1970-72Albert A. Grills 1950-52Dave Grimsich 1980-82Walter Grinnell 1906Nicholas H. Grosz 1960-62Vincent Grupposo 1942-43Kevin Gudejko 1976-77Ken Guerrier 1994Daniel Guerrieri 1965-66Ralph Guerriero 1979-82Brian Gunning 1987-88Gregory Gutter 1963-65John J. Gutter 1961-63

H Chris Hagerty 1981-82Francis L. Halliwell 1971Jason Ham 2001-04Frederick M. Hammett 1927-28Harry D. Hanchett 1953-54Alex Hanewich 1947-49Frank Hanlin 1914-15Mike Hansen 1993-96Jim Happe 1984-86Lee L. Harding 1906John I. Hardy 1909-10William F. Harley 1896Cory Harper 1997Burton K. Harris 1910Dana Hart 2005-06James Harvey 1939-41Billy Jack Haskins 1997George Haslam 1923-24Edward Hayes 1948Jerome Hayes 2003John L. Hayes 1955Marc Hayes 1999-02Doug Haynes 1985-86Peter Hayward 1908Michael P. Healy 1968-69Dennis Heck 1976-79Manny Heditsian 1947Rich Heffernan 1987-90Dan Heffron 2003-06Keith Heinemann 1998-01

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ALL-TIME LETTERMENDaniel Henderson 1913Erik Henderson 1987-88Lorenzo Henderson 1975-78Roswell Henninger 1914Dan Henriquez 2000Justin Henry 1997-99Christopher T. Hess 1969-71Dameon Hewlette 1984-86Clarence Hickey 1925-26Peter Hickey 1981-82Shundell Hicks 1992-94Dario Highsmith 1991Flournoy Hightower 1968Henry J. Hill 1971-73James Hill 2004Tony Hill 1982-85Kareem Hinckson 1997-99, 2001Jon Hines 2003-06Ernest Hirsch 1949Roy Hirtle 1921Paul Hitt 1980-81Chris Hixson 1993-95Andrew Hjelmstrom 1930-31Robert J. Hoder 1961-62James Hodgens 1976Glenn Hodgins 1989-92Gregg Hoffmann 1991-93Jeff Hogan 1986-88, 1990James Hogdson 1931-33Terry Hogg 1967-68Bob Holden 1979-80Lee Holden 1974-77Steve Holland 1991-92Curtis Horne 2001-04Reginald Horseman 1931-34Robert K. Horton 1956Warren B. Houston 1969-71Roy Howard 1924Albert M. Howe 1909Richard Howes 1929-30Willard Hoxsie 1901-03Carl P. Hubbard 1905Robert Hueston 1967Chris Hughes 1983-85Jimmy Hughes 2005-06

Pat Hughes 1990-92Robert J. Humphrey 1960-61Charles H. Hunt 1955-56Brian Hunte 1993Russell Hunter 1991-93Rex A. Hurlburt 1971Robert Hurley 1948-51Alex H. Hurwitz 1928-29Bill Hutchinson 1979

I Ron Iannotti 1995-98Ingalls 1906Edward Inas 1927-28Robert Introini 1972-74Keith Irving 1989-90Alex Ivanov 1989-90, 1992

J John Jackowitz 1915Frederick Jackson 1964-65James Jackson 1975Kevin Jackson 1995Shane Jacobs 1995-98Harvey Jaksch 1992David Jamison 1998-01Mike Janson 1985-86Chester Jaworski 1938Ryan Jefferson 2005-06Eric Jenkins 1992-94James Jenkins 1996-98Chester Jensen 1925-26Mike Jensen 1984-85James M. Jerue 1956-58Alex Jiminez 1995Antonio Johnson 2006Charles R. Johnson 1947-48Charles W. Johnson Jr. 1955Elliot W. Johnson 1946-48Eskel C. Johnson 1920-23Garrett Johnson 2001-02Ki’Ameer Johnson 2005Tang Johnson 1980Tony Johnson 1979-81

Kevaughan Johnson-Henry 2005-06Jerell Jones 2003-05LaJhon Jones 1994-97Terrence Jones 2003Frantzy Jourdain 1993-96Rich Judkins 1988-90Dean Julian 1973-74Stanley Jusczyk 1947Timothy W. Justice 1971

K Francis R. Kapusinsky 1961-63Edward Kassak 1967Soloman Katzen 1947-49Brent Kaufman 1967-68Frank W. Keaney Jr. 1934-36Warner Keaney 1939-41Matthew E. Kearns 1929-30Richard Keckler 1965Leslie A. Keegan 1916-18Everett Keene 1967-68Lawrence Keith 1913-15Rich Kelley 1982-84Benjamin Kelly 1967-68Kris Kelly 1994-97Larry A. Kemelgor 1965-66Winfield S. Kendrick 1906Chris Keneally 1992-94William Kennedy 1923Raymond W. Kent 1903Scott Kent 1989Charles Kenyon 1901-03Anthony Keris 1972Antal Keszthelyi 2005-06Evans Killeen 1992-93Kevin Killian 1979-81Arthur L. Kilroy 1931George P. Kimball 1917-18, 1923Thomas Kirby 1923-24Tom Kirby 1996Eric Kless 2001John Klumbach 1988-91Willie Knapp 1997James E. Knott 1917-18, 1921Horace Knowles 1928Dae Koch 1981-82Rick Koehler 1975Henry Kogut 1936David Kollman 1992-93Anthony Konasavage 1996-97Albert Kopeck 1939-41James Krause 1993-94William Krohn 1937-38Pete Kuc 1995-97Peter Kulevich 1989-90Kenneth Kuzman 1967-68

L Lawrence Labree 1920-23Ranard Ladd 2000-03Shane Laisle 2000-03Morgan Laity 1946Joseph Lamb 1925Clark Lamboy 1979Kirk Lamboy 1975-77John K. Lamond 1907Calvin Lamont 1924-25Jim Landry 1984-86Mike Lane 2006Robert C. LaRoche 1960Robert Larrabee 1939-40Christos Latos 1951-55

John L. Lavelle 1971-73Shawn Lawton 1995Matt Lawrence 1975Samuel E. Lawrence 1916-18Chris Lawson 1993-96Edward R. Lawson 1962Pat Lawson 1983Charles J. Lazarek 1929John H. Leach Jr. 1955-57Albert A. LeBoeuf 1916-18Donald LeClair 1949Rene LeDoux 1950-53Ken Lee 1978-79Greg LeFever 1997Arthur G. Lemoi 1953Shawn Leonard 2006Bob Leonhardt 1986Robert Lepper 1935-36William Lepre 1965James Leslie 1949Michael Lettieri 1930Preston Letts 1999-00Andy Levy 1985-86Nick Levy 2003-06Harold Reynold Lewis 1930-32Harry R. Lewis 1907Shamel Lewis 2003-06Marc Librizzi 1976-79Reynolds J. Lillibridge 1961Alpert P. Lindeman Jr. 1958-59Robert H. Linder 1970-72Henry Little 1924Lester W. Lloyd 1915-16Maurice Lobdell 2002Ron Logue 1992Felix G. Lombardi 1960Nicholas Lombardi 1946-47Raymond C. Lombardo 1969Devon London 1997Peter Long 1992-93Robert Long 1989-90Vincent J. Lovett 1953Tony Lowe 1987-90Matt Lucas 1995Terry Lynch 1979-82John Lyons 1967

M David M. Macaulay 1946-47John L. Macdonald 1960Peter R. MacDougall 1960-61Carl Mackay 1987-89Ronald Madison 1967James Magee 1937-38Joseph A. Magliocco Jr. 1960Adolph B. Magnola 1946-47Creighton Magoun 1928-29Edmund Maher 1941Edward Maher 1939-40Leonard Mailloux 1914Robert J. Mairs 1956-58Henry Majkut 1947-48Rob Malini 1997-98Bill Maker 1984-85Albert Making 1924-25Thomas Maliff 1924George F. Malloy 1917-18, 1921Sean Maloney 1992Victor Mancini 1963Albert Mangiamele 1964-65Rick Mangili 1991-92Eric Manley 1987-89Raymond Mansolillo 1947

John Mantenuto 1934-36Tom Marhefka 1976-78Frank Marinella 1991-94Steve Marrella 2003-04Tom Marsocci 1973-74James P. Martin 1947-49John K. Martin 1949-51Maurice Martin 1997Nelson Martinez 1994-97Shaka Martin 2002Josh Mason 2005Donald R. Massie 1952-53Ken Mastrole 1999Robert W. Matje 1960-62Michael Matkevich 1972-74Michael Matone 1971John F. Matthews 1955-56Thomas Matthews 1939-40William Maxwell 1998-99Robert McAllister 1968David C. McBrair 1968-70Robert McCabe 1939-40, 1942-43William McCagney 1975-76Jerry McCargo 1985-86Frederick C. McCarthy 1936-37Justin McCarthy 1934-36Mike McCarthy 1987George McCombs 1949-51James J. McCormick 1960John McCormick 1938Martin P. McCue 1929-30Everett S. McDaniel 1956-58John L. McDonald 1959Al McDougall 1979Sylvester McGee 1971-73Mark W. McGroary 1968-69Arthur McGuire 1932Albert McIntosh 1914-17Scott McKinnie 2006John J. McLaughlin 1942, 1946-48Leander W. McLeod 1915-16James McMahon 1965-66William L. McMullen 1969-71William McNally 1939-40Edward E. McNulty 1948-51Paul McNulty 1978-79Larry McPhillips 1979-81Robert McSweeney 1947-48Ralph V. Meade 1925-27Albert E. Medici 1937-38Farrell Meeker 1998William Meekins 1975-76Harold Melkonian 1947-50Bob Menard 1979Ernest R. Menezes 1960-61Mike Mento 1999Dan Merlin 1987W.C.P. Merrill 1896Brian Merritt 1990-93Robert Messier 1975-78John S. Messina 1936-38Greg Meyer 1979-81George Miaris 2003Michael Miello 1965-66Rob Milani 1997-99Miller 1908-09Daniel Miller 2000-03J. Walter Miller 1905Raymond G. Miller Jr. 1953-54Robert Miller 1948Charles I. Milnes 1916Arthur E. Miner 1905Arthur J. Miner 1908-10Kevaughn Johnson-Henry

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Jack Miraval 1976-77Bryan Mitchell 1986Clovis W. Mitchell 1906-08Robert Mitchell 1973-76Rodney Mitchell 2006Ron Mitchell 2002Charles Modliszewski 1931-34William Mokray 1929Steve Moll 2003-06Steve Monaco 1987-90Jay H. Monaghan 1968-70Gordon Monroe 1949-51, 1953William J. Montanaro 1955-56Vincent F. Montcalvo 1946Mike Monti 1988-91Damon Moore 1997Harold P. Moore 1916-18John Mooshian 1939-40Bernie Moran 1981-84Arthur S. Moreau 1970-71Stephen Moreau 1969Frank F. Morey 1958-60Shaun Morgan 1994Robert Morini 1972-73Dave Morrill 1984-86Charles Morris 1953Steve Morris 1980-81, 1983Rich Moser 1975-77John Moss 1934Harold L. Mounce 1910-13Leroy L. Mounce 1908-10Sigsbee D. Mowry 1920-21Thomas Muddiman 1947-48Robert Mudge 1935-37Dan Mullan 1993Brian Mulcahy 1984-86Joseph A. Murgo 1930-31Michael Murgo 1964-66Dennis P. Murphy 1967-68Edward Joseph Murphy 1938Joseph Murphy 1921Maurice V. Murphy 1917-18, 1921Jim Muse 1984-86Tom Mut 1978, 1980-82Ernest Myers 1973-75Greg Myerson 1987Carl W. Myllymaki 1964

N Emmett Nagle 1964Mark Nahorski 1988Alphonse L. Najjar 1962Richard L. Narcessian 1968-70Ralph Narducci 1939-40Pat Narduzzi 1987-89C.E. Nash 1896Vince Nedimyer 1999-01Warren A. Negri 1968-69Dave Neill 1981-83James R. Nester 1970Donald Neuberger 1973Kevin Neville 1987-90Jeff Newsome 1990-92John Newson 1988-91Leroy Newton 1913-15Tom Niles 1980-82Dave Nordstrom 1992-93Douglas Nordstrom 1967-68Raymond Northup 1924-25Robert J. Novelli 1955-57Arthur R. Nunes 1964-66Marshall Nye 1925

O Charles F. O’Brien 1917-18Dan O’Brien 1983-86William O’Brien 1930Mark Occhipinti 1973-75David O’Donnell 1967Anthony Offord 2002-04John O’Gara 1947John L. O’Leary 1955-57Edward Oliveira 1962-64Mike Oliver 1979Arthur Olson 1921James Olverson 1995James O’Neil 1975-76Patrick O’Neill 2002-05Henry Orobane 1949Chris Orlando 1995-96Mike Orlando 1998Nicholas Orlando 1939-40Steve Oronte 1975-76Luke O’Reilly 1995-98Herbert O’Rourke 1946-47Chris Ougheltree 1978Adrian Owen 2004-06Drew Owens 2003-05Anthony Ozello 1975-77

P Clifford Pace 1938-39Mike Paino 2003-05Bob Palermo 1986-87Lawrence Panciera 1940, 1943-45Michael Pariseau 1962-63James Patrick 2000-03Harold E. Pattee 1938Adonis Patterson 1924-25Arthur Patterson 1913Keith Peacock 2002-05A. Pearson 1896Roger L. Pearson 1958-60Eugene H. Peck 1959-60Warren Peck 1964-65Joe Pelosi 1983-85Rich Pelzer 1980-82Robert A. Peltier 1957-59James Periera 1985-88Earle R. Perkins 1959-60Edward Pernaveau 1949-51Cliff Perry 1975Roy Perry 1923-24Bob Peterson 1985-86Michael Peterson 2000-02Mike Peterson 1991-92Vincent J. Petrarca 1965-67Edward Petro 1938-39Pasquale Pezzelli 1949-52Joe Philbin 1986-88, 1989T.K. Phillips 1998-01William J. Phinney 1968-69Ron Piccioli 1988-90Dustin Picciotti 2003-04Paul Picciotti 1998-01Hercules Picerne 1936-37Robert Piekarski 1971-73Chris Pierce 1989-92Louis Pieri 1949Ashley Pierre 2006Russell Pietrini 1972-74Michael C. Pilla 1969-71Bernard T. Pina 1952-54Joseph Pinto 1925Johnathan Pitt-Coombs 2006Chris Plamondon 1991-92

Paul Podgurski 1972-74Chris Poirier 1986-89Brackston Poitier 1999-02William F. Poland 1958-60Calvin Poole 2002-05Cameron Pooler 1993-95David Pope 1994David Potter 1975Grant Potter 1920-21, 1923Kenneth Potter 1931-33Jim Pratt 1985-86Charles Pray 1929Mike Prew 1988-89Milton Price 1913-16Raquan Pride 2003-06Frank Prusaczyk 1933-34John Joseph Prybyla 1933-35Joe Ptaszek 1979-82Steve Ptaszek 1986-87Alfred Pullano 1937-38James K. Purcell 1972John L. Putnam 1930-32Justin Puvogel 1998-99Edgar Puzio 2000-03

Q Kenneth J. Quinlan 1971Kevin Quinn 1991-94Stephen Quinn 1905-08Stephen J. Quinn 1970-72

R Raymond Rabidoux 1933-34Pat Raggio 1967-69Matt Ramey 2001-04Herbert D. Randall 1969Phineas Randall 1916Harold A. Ranson 1952Raymond Rathbun 1947Damon Ray 1997-00Stuart Reardon 1934-36David A. Redford 1916-18Jack D. Reed 1964-66Dewan Reeves 1995-98Robert E. Reid 1971-72Dameon Reilly 1983-85Peter Reilly 1976-78Andy Reindl 2003Waldo Reiner 1914Nate Reis 1990-91Rich Remondino 1975-76Thomas C. Ricci 1966-67Joseph Riccio 1932Barney Rinaldi 1980-82Keith Ring 1979-81Joseph J. Rinoski 1938Gil Rishton 1980-82Tim Rishton 1984-86Darren Rizzi 1990-92Alden I. Robblee 1938Jim Roberson 1978, 1981-82Marcel Roberson 2006Kevin Roberts 1983Milton Roberts 1929Peter Roberts 1973William Roberts 1946Jacob Robertshaw 1936-37John A. Robillard 1966Dallas Robinson 1938-39Randy Rocha 1983-85Arthur S. Roche 1950-53Joseph Rock 1942-46Mike Rock 1991-92

William Rockett 1964Isaiah Roddie 2002Anthony Roderick 1946-48Jon Rodgers 1977, 1979-81Roland Rodrigues 1964Casimer A. Rogers 1927Mike Rogers 1987-90William Rohrhurst 1927John H. Rollins 1959-61James E. Rolston 1925-27Tony Romaniello 1980-81Frank Romano 1995Russell Romano 1966Timothy Rosafort 1975-76Ben Ross 1978-79Matt Rossi 1997-98Joseph Rotenberg 1934-35Troy Rothmann 1992-94Frank Romano 1994Rich Rouser 1990, 1992-93James Rowley 1968Patrick Rowley 2005Paul Rubino 2001-02Mark Russo 1983-84William Rutledge 1940Edward Ryan 1933-35Paul Ryan 1972-74Scott Rynning 1989

S Donald Sadowski 1972-73

Jamal Saleem 2000-02Stephen C. Salkeldi 1967-68Robert Sammartino 1956Mike Sanders 1982-84Shyron Sanford 1995-98Will Santi 1993-96Vincent Santo 1947Chris Santopietro 1984-86Chris Sargent 1988-89Michael Sarkesian 1950-53Matt Satkowski 1981-84Karlo Sauer 1992-93Philip J. Saulnier 1961-62Frank Scarafile 1949-51Thomas Scarduzio 1972Charles Scarpula 1961-63Luke Schiavone 1995-96L.G. Schermerhorn 1905-06Melvin Schrieberg 1965-66Bruce Schoelle 1965-66Albert R. Schryver 1910Steve Schwab 1986-88Scott Sciretto 1992Joe Scirocco 1995-98Paul Scoffone 1993-95Francis Scott 1929Monty Scott 1989-91William E. Scott 1953-54Joseph R. Scrabis 1958Tyrone Seabrooks 1990Doug Seabury 1921

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Kenneth S. Seal 1955-57Bob Seccareccia 1982-83Charles Siefert 1915Joseph Seigalmann 1940William Sellers 1963-64Reuben Sevigny 1994Earl Shannon 1942-43Philip Shaughnessy 1949Leroy Shaw 1977-79Walter Shea 1924-25William F. Sheedy 1954-55Mark Shepard 1981-82Robert S. Sherman 1929-30Leroy Sherwin 1913-15Frank Shields 1925Kevin Shirley 1991-93Tod Short 1992-94Charles Shrader 1973Mark Shumilla 1989-92Harvey Silvers 1964-66Nicholas Silvestri 1942Raymond Simpson 1934Reginald Simpson 1923Vincent Sinagra 1971-73Anthony A. Sivo 1965-66David Slattery 1990-93Lewis Slack 1905-07Howard Small 1966-67Lance Small 1998-01Martin Smalls 2006Aaron Smith 1986-87Blair Smith 1995Brian Smith 1993-96Earl Smith 1985-86Elmer F. Smith 1907H.S. Smith 1907Harold Smith 1950-52Herbert A. Smith Jr. 1938Hiram J. Smith 1908-10Howard U. Smith 1901-03John L. Smith 1907Kevin Smith 1987-90Leslie T. Smith 1924Norman W. Smith 1923-25George L. Smyrnious 1958-59James Snead 1973Salvatore Soccoccia 1952Bob Soderlund 1980-83Paul H. Sollitto 1934-35Bruce Sotire 1991James Souther 1934Carmine Spagnuolo 1997-00Thomas Spann 1975-77Edwin H. Spencer 1952Henry Sperling 1942Robert Spillane 1971Leon B. Spinney 1967-68Pasquale Spitaletta 1968-70Charles Spooner 1936-37Robert Squadrito 1947-49Donald Squires 1972-73Tony Squitieri 1991-94Korry Stagnito 1986Joseph Stanelun 1956Will Stanton 2003-05Chris Staub 1978-79John Staulo 1974-76Selwyn Stearns 1973-75Anthony E. Steere 1901-03Milton Steere 1924Nick Steffner 2003Ryan Steffner 2003-04D.J. Stefkovich 2006Raymond Stevens 1927-28

Frederick Stickney 1933-34Steve Stoehr 1983-85Mark Stolte 2003-06Frank H. Storey 1901Stephen Stramm 1968Robert P. Straut 1959-60Paul Stringfellow 1983-85Ray Studley 1986Greg Sturgis 1982-83, 1985Dan Sullivan 1991-94Gerald P. Sullivan 1968-70John L. Sullivan 1910, 1913-14Leo Sullivan 1947Albert H. Suter 1930Gary J. Sverker 1969-71John Sweeney 1973-74Robert Sweet 1987Richard W. Swift 1961-63Mark Swistak 1993-96Ryan Szczesniak 1999-01

T Richard Taft 1921Moses Tajong 1998-01Dennis Talbot 1979-82Donald Talley 1992-96Robert Tallman 1937Warren Tampke 1947Leonard Tamulevick 1934Bayden Taylor 1925Brandon Taylor 2003Raymond D. Taylor 1917-18Robert E. Taylor 1953-55Ernest Teft 1901-03Tony Teolis 1970Anthony Tetro 1962-64Justin Thames 2003Mike Thibault 1993Brian Thomas 1990-91Gary Thomas 2004Irving Thomas 1896Warren Thomas 1993-94John A. Thompson 1965-66Leonard M. Thompson 1960-62Vernard Thompson 2002Thomas A. Thurber 1968-69Joe Tighe 1984-86, 1988Tre Timbers 2005Raymond Timperley 1933Donald Tinty 1949Virgil Tobey 1923Unitas Todd 2001John Tolento 1979-81Marc Toni 2006Attillio Topazio 1946Ernie Torres 1989Louis Toscano 1962-64Mike Toscano 1995Steve Tosches 1977-78Frank Totman 1923Gary Tougas 2003Gary Tourony 1987-90James K. Townsen 1927-28Michael A. Traficante 1960Leonard Tribbett 2001-02William Trumbull 1929Charles F. Trumpetto 1934-36Chris P. Tsokois 1958William Tully 1915-16William H. Tully 1908-10Michael Tunie 1974-75Todd Tunnell 1983-85George E. Turano 1957

Edgar E. Turner 1920-21John Turi 1997James Tweedell 1924William Tweedell 1921Kevin Twomey 1988, 1991George Tyler 1934John Tyler 1931Matt Tyrrell 2003-06

U Thomas J. Uhlig 1969-71Robert Underhill 1948-50Lewis Usher 2001, 2003

V Jared Vance 1994-97Craig Vandersea 1992-94Mike Van Wyck 2002-04Andrew Varner 2005Charles R. Varney 1948-51Paul Vellano 2005Joseph Venditto 1951Joseph Ventetuolo 1948-51Charles J. Vento 1960-62Salvatore Vento 1946-48Mike Verani 1997-00Shane Vergari 1998-01Rick Viall 1978Miguel Viera 1997-98Monte Vieselmeyer 1987Hugo Vigorose 1949-51Harold Vinton 1926Anthony Votta 1974-75

W Daniel Wakely 1999Henry Walker 1967-68Ian M. Walker 1926-27Matt Walker 1995-98John M. Wallace 1977-78, 1980John W. Wallace 1977-79Lee Walmsley 1986Michael Wallor 1967-68Steve Walsh 1978-80

Chad Waltrip 2003-06Lionel M. Warde 1925-27Joe Warner 1907-08James A. Warren 1956-58Thomas Wasko 1971-72Charles Watson 1983-85Walter Watson 1901-03Claude Watts 1948Mike Wear 1996-99Jeff Weaver 1996-98W. Harold Webb 1913-15John Weber 1978-79Earl Webster 1914Danny Weed 1971-73Jay Weibel 1973-74Chris Weinreich 1998, 00Salim Wellington 1998-01Brandon Wenz 2002-04Robert Welsh 1976-77, 1979Chuck Wesley 1998-01Jeff West 2002-05William Westervelt 1930Justin Westley 2000, 2002-2004Horace Whaley 1938-39Timothy Wheaton 1972-73Thomas E. Wheeler 1968-70Lucius A. Whipple 1907-08Daniel Whitaker 1972-74Harold Whitaker 1921-23Bob White 1982-85Josh White 2002-04Mark White 1983-85Curtis Whiting 1993Calvin Whitfield 1979-82Charles Whitmore 1901-03Kurt R. Wicks 1969-70Dave Wienke 1982-83John Wilby 1901-03Mike Wilds 2003Albert E. Wilkinson 1905Charod Williams 1994-96Gerry Williams 1985Jeffrey Williams 1973-76Jerry Williams 1988-89John Williams 1999Lawrence Williams 1968

Raymond Williams 1983-86Wendall Williams 2000-03Dan Wilson 2003David Wilson 2006Harry P. Wilson 1896Matt Wilson 1996-97Joseph J. Withington 1962Amir Womack 2003Rob Wondolowski 1994-96Glenn C. Woodbury 1961-62Walter Woodward 1973-74Paul Wortley 1995-96Dana L. Woyteck 1971Brian Wright 1991-92Fearon Wright 1999-00James Wright 1936-37Thomas Wright 1932-37

Y Achille Yangambi 2003Jimmy Young 2006Bryan Yvon 1992-93

Z Ralph Zednick 1991-92Marc Zlotek 1999-02David Zyons 1972-75

Current Rhody assistant coach Jeff Weaver completed a school-record 17-of-20 passes in a 28-21 victory over James Madison on Oct. 31, 1998.

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