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No
extracurricular activities were more popular or important in developing
and maintaining school spirit at
OHS than its sports programs, where the
principal interscholastic competitive sports were ― and our
boys
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often excelled in
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basketball,
baseball, wrestling, soccer, track and, of course, football, the most
popular of all.
Most notable among our teams' athletic
achievements during our time
at
OHS were the three county championships won in the 1958-'59 school
year ―
in soccer, basketball and baseball, and in our senior year, the
1959-'60 season, our undefeated Division I
championship outdoor track team. We were all proud of those championship
Sailors
teams on which, as juniors or seniors, many of our classmates competed.
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Sample
OHS cheers
from the late 1950s:
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Say!
What? That's what! What's what?
That's
what they all say!
What do they all say? We've got the coach. (Clap, clap.)
We've got the team. (Clap, clap.) We've got the pep.
(Clap, clap.)
We've got the steam. (Clap, clap.)
We've got the coach, team, pep, steam,
Fifteen yells for the whole darn team.
Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah; rah, rah, rah, rah, rah,
Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah; team, team, team!
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Center
end, tackle, guard
Get together, hit 'em hard
Hit 'em high, hit 'em low
Come on Team, let's go. |
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Raise
it, raise it,
Raise that score,
Touchdown, touchdown,
We want more
Kick it, pass it,
Charge right through
Come on, Sailors,
We're for you. |
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When
Oceanside's eleven falls in line
We're gonna win again another time
For Oceanside I yell, I yell, I yell
And for the team I love so well, I yell, I yell
We're gonna fight, fight, fight for every yard
Circle the end and hit that line right hard
We're gonna push that team right on the side
We're gonna fight, we're gonna fight, we're gonna fight.
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Four key senior members of our Fall '59 football
squad, (clockwise from upper left)
Joe Kunkel,
Don Patterson, (the now late)
Hal Wilenski
and Rudy Santoli |
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Click on the image
above for an enlarged, readable version of this football game
program booklet
from our
junior year (October 26, 1958) with the names of the players ─
and the cheerleaders!! |
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In addition to cheerleading, modern
dance and drill
team,
OHS offered a wide variety of athletic
team programs for our girls,
including tennis and badminton, field hockey, bowling, archery, volleyball,
lacrosse, basketball,
softball
and the very
popular and fondly remembered annual girls' "SportNite" competition.
Not
bad for the 1950s!
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Nancy Koller ('60)
Principal Mosback
(Unknown)
Janet Roehrich ('60)
Kathy Isom ('60)
Ellen Weber ('60) |
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As noted above, during the 1958-'59 season
(our junior year), our boys won three county championships, in
soccer, basketball and baseball. |
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1958-'59 season All-Scholastic soccer players (l. to
r):
Howie Kitt
and
Art Heyman ('59),
Chris Knorr* and Tom Millot ('60) |
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* Both now deceased.
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The late
Art Heyman ('59) shoots in overtime in the 1959 season.
(Click
here for Newsday's account of the exciting 1-point, 1959
County championship
victory over Baldwin and lots of other stuff.)
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Dave Schwarz ('60) (top) |
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| Jim Day ('60) |
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 Our 1959-'60 season outdoor track team at left
in a photo that appeared in our Spindrift featured
record-breaking
cross-country runner,
the now late
Steve Killorin
(below, at right), and many other classmates of ours. But what
our
Spindrift did not tell us was that this
team went 15-0 and thus became the first undefeated
OHS track team in
history and the 1960 Division I champions. Another source of pride
for our class. |
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Indoor team co-captains, Mitch Hall
and (the late) Bob Lowery ('60) |
Ken Sack ('60) |
The late
Steve Killorin ('60) |
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The preceding four photos are from the collection of
the now late
track coach, Roy Chernock
(And
click
here to see what Coach Roy said about this site.)
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Remember
those old mimeograph sheets with the purple print that
we used to like to sniff?
Click here for selected clippings from the sports section
of  .
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The first annual "Circle of
Pride" dinner and induction ceremony honoring great
OHS
coaches and athletes and benefiting the OHS Athletic
Hall of Fame, conceived in 1960 by none other than
Coach Jan (Frank Januszewski), was held
in our home town on June 12, 2003.
(Click on
the "Circle of Pride" logo at the upper left to read the
initial announcement and see how many familiar names
have been honored.)
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