The very first All State football team in Delaware was in 1948, this is a compilation of 1st team members ONLY, from 1948 to the last team picked, 2008...61 years of All State Delaware Football Teams.  Team photos', individual photos',(taken from the Archives of U of De. and Wilmington Library, micro film), names, position and high school they came from. This is a VERY exclusive club, once you've made it, "your in for a lifetime"...there are 1169 members in "the Club" since 1948... Each team has a representative High School and Logo for there respective All State year...just thought some of you fella's out there, should be worthy of some attention, so if you did, or you didn't go to college or play college ball, you might have played a little Semi Pro football, or went straight to work or the service after graduation, because you couldn't afford to go to college, some became bricklayers, CPA's, mailmen, teachers, some may no longer be with us. But you still worked your butt off to make All State

 

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Dear All State Friends,

       This will be my last year of working with the All State Web Site...seems like yesterday when I started working on it back in '95..took a long time to get ALL the All State photos...some from personal keepsake, friends that made the All State teams or had friends or relatives that made the teams, mostly though, the info and photos were gathered at the University of Delaware Library Micro Film Depart. Would like to thank the people involved that had something to do with our "All State" Web Site. I have not found anyone yet that will take over the job...if there is anyone that would like to give a "lot" of time to it, let me know, just contact me, Bob LaFazia at (302)633-1456 or email me at delawareallstatefootball@comcast.net

      I'm 76 going on 50, I think its time for me to step down. My last posting will be the 2009 All State football team posting, after that, if no one takes over, it will disappear like most other things do, (which is what I don't want to happen).

Thanx, Bob LaFazia

All State '49 & '50

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ALL STATE FACTS...

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP...1139 1ST TEAM ALL STATERS SINCE 1948 TO PRESENT

 

1ST 2 TIME ALL STATE BACK...NICK BUCCI, 1948 AND 1949

 

1ST 2 TIME ALL STATE LINEMAN...BOB LaFAZIA, 1949 AND 1950, also 1st to make 1st team at two different

positions, '49 guard & '50 tackle

 

1ST AFRICAN/AMERICAN PICKED ON ALL STATE TEAM, THEO HICKS,HOWARD HIGH, (1ST OF HUNDREDS PICKED)

 

1ST BROTHERS TO MAKE 1ST TEAM...MARTY APOSTOLICO, 1949 AND JOE APOSTOLICO, 1954

 

1ST 3 TIME ALL STATE BACK, CHUCK HUNTER, 1973, 1974 AND 1975

 

1ST 3 TIME ALL STATE LINEMAN, KWAME HARRIS, 1997, 1998 & 1999...2ND 3 TIME ALL STATE LINEMAN, BROTHER, ORIEN HARRIS, 1998,1999, 2000

 

1st and "ONLY" State to have an All State website from beginning to present

 

1st year to pick All Defensive and All Offensive teams was 1973

 

1st year two different All State Teams were picked: Coaches and DSBA, 2006

 

1st State Championship game, won by Wilmington over Middletown, 1971

 

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 GUESTBOOK

 

 

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Schools represented and the Total All State 1st Team Players   Sallies...127 Newark...114 William Penn...85 Caesar Rodney...66 Seaford...58                 Middletown...58                 Dover...45 St. Mark's...39 Christiana...34 Wilmington High...29 Brandywine...30 Cape Henlopen...28 Dickenson...26 Glasgow...25 Archmere...27 Sussex Central...25 Laurel...19 Lake Forest...16 Delmar...17 St. Elizabeth...16 Claymont...15 Delcastle...14 Friends...14 Concord...19 Smyrna...11 Mt. Pleasant...11 Conrad...10 Howard...13 McKean...9 Woodbridge...9 Milford...8 A.I.DuPont...7 Tatnall...7 Tower Hill...7 PS DuPont...7 Caravel...10 Indian River...6 Alexis I. DuPont...6 St. Andrews...6 Sussex Tech...5 Rehoboth...4 Lewes...4 Poly Tech...4 Brown Vocational...3 Bridgeville...3 Hodgson...6 Millsboro...2 Wilmington Charter...1 Dover Air...1 DeLaWarr...1 Georgetown...1 Sanford...1 Jason...1    

 

 

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 Grand total...1139 1st team All Staters from 1948 to present

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CONGRATULATIONS CHAMPS!   DIV 1 CHAMPS, 2008

 

 

DIV 2 CHAMPS, 2008

  Delaware High School Football State Champs

 

Champion	Division		Year
Caesar Rodney	I		2008
Milford	II	1 Championship	2008
Middletown	I		2007
Hodgson	II	1 Championship	2007
Salesianum	I	8 Championships	2006
Concord	II	3 Championships	2006
Salesianum	I		2005
Caravel	II	3 Championships	2005
Newark	I	10 Championships	2004
Concord	II		2004
Newark	I		2003
Concord	II		2003
William Penn	I	8 Championships	2002
Delmar	II	5 Championships	2002
Newark	I		2001
Delmar	II		2001
Newark	I		2000
Delmar	II		2000
Newark	I		1999
Middletown	II	5 Championships	1999
Newark	I		1998
Middletown	II		1998
Newark	I		1997
Middletown	II		1997
William Penn	I		1996
St. Elizabeth	II	2 Championships	1996
William Penn	I		1995
Lake Forest	II	1 Championship	1995
Christiana	I	2Championships	1994
St. Elizabeth	II		1994
Salesianum	I		1993
Sussex Tech	II	1 Championship	1993
William Penn	I		1992
Dickinson	II	2 Championships	1992
William Penn	I		1991
Laurel	II	3 Championships	1991
Caesar Rodney	I	3 Championships	1990
Caravel	II		1990
Glasgow	I	2 Championships	1989
Caravel	II		1989
Dover	I	2 Championships	1988
Indian River	II	1 Championship	1988
William Penn	I		1987
Laurel	II		1987
Salesianum	I		1986
Laurel	II		1986
Newark	I		1985
Delmar	II		1985
Newark	I		1984
Friends	II	1 Championship	1984
William Penn	I		1983
Seaford	II	2 Championships	1983
William Penn	I		1982
Archmere	II	3 Championships	1982
Seaford	I		1981
Mount Pleasant	II	1 Championship	1981
Dickinson	I		1980
Archmere	II		1980
Cape Henlopen	I	1 Championship	1979
Archmere	II		1979
St. Mark's	I	3 Championships	1978
Middletown	II		1978
Dover	I		1977
Christiana	II		1977
Newark	I		1976
Delmar	II		1976
Caesar Rodney	I		1975
Glasgow	II		1975
St. Mark's			1974
St. Mark's			1973
Salesianum			1972
Wilmington		1 Championship	1971

   

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Father and son combos':

Vince Marcozzi '58 and Vince Marcozzi '83 from Salesianum are father and son

Joe Todd, two time All Stater, '71 & '72 from Middletown and Joe Todd Jr., two time All Stater, 2002 & 2003 from Howard High...Joe Todds younger son, Charlie was a first team all stater also 2006...WOW! CONGRATS to Joe Sr. and MOM!

Ed Szczerba '72 and Andrew Szczerba '06 from Salesianum are father and son

 

(If you know of any more Dad's and Son's that made All State, please let me know: delawareallstatefootball@comcast.net)    

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Grandfather & Grandson  combos':

Tom Logullo..End (CONRAD)(1st year of All State teams)1948, son, Andy Dickinson, 1986(2nd team) and Grandson, DE Adam Ward - Glasgow, (2nd team)

(If you know of any Grandpops and Grandsons  that made All State, please let me know:

delawareallstatefootball@comcast.net

   

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Brother combos':

Marty Apostolico '49, WHS and Joe Apostolico '54, WHS

Bob LaFazia '49 & '50, WHS and Dennis LaFazia '62, Salesianum

Hal Grosh 1953 and Dave Grosh 1955 are brothers from Seaford

Johnny Marvel 1970, brother is Tommy Marvel 1973 both 1^st team All-State from Sussex Central High School

John Carney '73 and Mike '74 & '75  from St. MarksMike McKone 1975,

George Hicks '73 and Darryl Hicks, '80...Milford High

 Caesar Rodney and Tom McKone 1976, Caesar Rodney

Joe Perna '76, Salesianum and Kevin Perna, '86, William Penn

Mike Testa Newark 1984 and John Testa St. Marks 1996 and 1997 are brothers

Rob Longo '86 and Vinnie Longo '90, from Salesianum

Pat Casey '88 and Tom Casey, (2nd Team) '90 from Salesianum

Tom Jarome ,'88 & '89, 1st team All State, Steve Jarome, 2nd team, '82

LUKE PETIGOUT 1993 AND MARK PETIGOUT 1997 are Brothers from Sussex central.

Buck Booth 1993 and Spencer Booth 2003 are brothers of Sussex Cetnral.

Jake Booth 2000 of Sussex Central is their Cousin. All on the 1^st team all state teams

Kwame Harris, 1997, 1998 & 1999 and Orien Harris, 1998,1999, 2000 from Newark High

Louie Wright (1999) , Joey Wright (2003), brothers from St. Mark's

Joe Cylc, 2001 and Larry Cylc, 2002, from Hodgson Vo Tech

Adam Shrewsbury '03 & '04(FB) and James Shrewsbury '05 (K), both from Middletown

John Henry '02 and Darin Henry '04, (William Penn)

PJ DiGatti '04 and Anthony Digatti '05 & '06 (Both all-state centers) both from Middletown

Jamil & Jamal Merrell, twins, 2007 All Staters from Hodgson Vo Tech 

(If you know of any more brothers that made All State, please let me know:

delawareallstatefootball@comcast.net)

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Dear fellow All Staters and Friends,

"OLD HIGH SCHOOL and FOOTBALL PHOTOS SECTION"

We're sorry about the clarity of some of the "old photos", I got most of my photos from the Archives of the U of Delaware Library, Micro Film Dept.,(very old pictures), I enhanced them the best I could, I'm trying to get at least 2 to 3 old photos and clippings for each year, mostly from Archives of the News Journal, Journal Every Evening, Morning News, Sunday Star, delawareonline, old photos from fellow All Staters and relatives and friends of ALL the football players from ALL over the GREAT state of Delaware,"0LD PHOTOS from 1902 to the present...if you want to take any prints, you certainly have my permission,

your fellow All Stater, '49 & '50 

 

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COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

The material on this site was reproduced for enjoyment, review and information purposes ONLY and not for any commercial gain. Use of this material is not intended as a copyright infringement on any of the owners or any other entity's copyrighted material. Please realize that all links are maintained by other people, so I disavow any liability on the content of those pages and for copyright infringement. If you hold copyright to any material contained on this site and wish it's removal, please contact bobscustomclubs@comcast.net Provide legal proof of your right to demand removal. If verified, material will be removed immediately. Some photos & graphics were acquired from non copyrighted sources. They are usable at your own risk.My original Photos along with the backgrounds, images or page designs are not to be copied without my expressed permission. A special thanks to the All Staters that contributed photos, (myself included:-) Wilmington Morning News, Sunday Star, Morning News, Wilmington Journal-Every Evening, Evening Journal, The News-Journal and Delawareonline.com,Past Time Sports (http://pasttimesports.biz/products/f4.html)for the use of the photos for non-commercial use.

SPECIAL THANKS: 

We would like to give a special "THANKS" to the WSBA, (WILMINGTON SPORTSWRITERS AND BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION) for all there hard work over the years, thanks for the great banquets, trophies, food, a great experience for a young man that is now old but still can remember the very 1st WSBA function that the All Staters were invited too, (with Mr. Al Cartwright,(Toastmaster) the "BEST", in our opinion), inviting the ALL STATE football team to everyone of them since 1951, our 1st one. The first Wilmington Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association banquet attended by the All State Footballers was held in 1951 and honored only the All-State football team. It remained that way for 54 years. The banquet and All-State football team was the idea of retired News Journal sports editor Al Cartwright and many of his colleagues. Now they invite numerous Delaware All State teams to the banquet, the Democratic way which is fine with ALL the football All Staters.

 

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ALL STATE SLIDE SHOWS

 

#1,  This is a slide show of "Olde Delaware High School Photos...from 1893 to present, 2008, 

ENJOY! Click on below and enjoy the show!

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/bobscustclubs/AllStateHighSchoolDelawareFootballFrom1948ToPresentOldFootballPhotos#slideshow/5174227516982871026
 

#2, This is a slide show of ALL the All State teams from beginning, 1948 to present, 2008...if you want to copy photos or keep URL, (any of them, please do)...click this on and ENJOY!

http://picasaweb.google.com/bobscustclubs/HISTORYOFDELAWAREALLSTATEFOOTBALL?feat=directlink#slideshow/5133157559283928434

#3,  This is an All State slideshow with High School Logo's and music, enjoy!

http://www.slide.com/r/GTBS5DQZ5j_FVuyqQZDqV_ofL9KaTbB-?view=original

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Video of Wilmington High vs PS DuPont,

Thanksgiving Day, 1950

Please click this on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdvhs4mw70A

ALSO

Video of Wilmington High vs Conrad High,

1950, Conrad field under lights

Please click this on: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7271222708317606168

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History of Football and Football Helmet

Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the games beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys School in England. Another cousin of the game of football is soccer, sometimes called association football; its beginnings can also be traced to English origin, being played as early as the eighteen twenties.   COLLEGE FOOTBALL: ITS BEGINNINGS...At the same time, a group of students, who did not wear leather football helmets,at Princeton began playing what was then known as ballown. First using their fists to advance the ball, and then their feet, this game consisted mainly of one goal: to advance the old watermeoln football past the opposing team. There were no hard and fast rules applied to this earliest attempt at the game we now call football.At Harvard, the freshman and sophomore classes, who also did not at first wear leather football helmets, competed in a football-type game, played on the first Monday of each school year; this event came to be known as Bloody Monday because of the roughness of the game. Pick up games,where there were no leather football helmets, similar in style to that played on Bloody Monday, soon became popular on the Boston Common, catching on in popularity around eighteen sixty.   Soon after the end of the American Civil War,still the leather football helmet had not been invented, around eighteen sixty five, colleges began organizing football games.None of these early teams wore leather football helmets. In eighteen sixty seven, Princeton led the way in establishing some rudimentary rules of the game.But still , leather football helmets were not used or invented. Players simply tied a bandana around their heads. Also in that year, the football itself was patented for the very first time That early ball was a crude watermelon, almost round shape. But still no way to protect the players from death or concussins because there were no leather football helmets even thought of during these early years..Rutgers College also established a set of rules in eighteen sixty seven, and with the relatively short distance between it and Princeton, a game was decided upon by both universities. A date was chosen, November sixth, eighteen sixty nine; Rutgers won by a score of six goals to four, and thus was played what has become known as the very first intercollegiate football game No leather football helmets were worn during this contest. The flying wedge plays injured many because they had no leather football helmets..In eighteen seventy three, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale met in New York City to formulate the first intercollegiate football rules for the increasingly popular game, still being played with many of the rules of soccer. These four teams established the Intercollegiate Football Association, and set as fifteen the number of players allowed on each team.Walter Camp, the coach at Yale and a dissenter from the IFA over his desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modernfootball game of American football. The IFAs rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at one hundred ten yards. But still no one thought to protect themselves better with a leather footbal hemet. In eighteen eighty-two Camp also introduced the system of downs. After first allowing three attempts to advance the ball five yards, in nineteen six it was changed to ten yards. The fourth down was added in nineteen twelve. Tackling below the waist had been legalized in eighteen eighty-eight.Within a decade, concern over the increasing brutality of the game led to its ban by some colleges.Brutal plays that actually walked and trampled opposing players were the norm and leather football helmets still had not been invented to protect the head of the players of early football. Nearly one hundred eighty players had suffered serious injuries, and eighteen deaths had been reported from the brutal mass plays that had become common in practice.   The earliest leather football helmets were invented by a Navy player in 1893. He asked a local blacksmith to improvise a leather harness hat to protect his head. As his doctor said that if he continued to play , one more kick to the head would kill or paralyze him for life. Thus the first "leather football helmet was born. Soon other players created additional styles of leather football helmets to protect their heads and ears. Still the early leather football helmets provided little protection. There were such styles as the early beehive leather football helmet, the flat-top leather football helmets and the dogear leather football helmt. In nineteen hundred five, President Theodore Roosevelt called upon Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to help save the sport from demise.At a meeting between the schools, reform was agreed upon, and at a second meeting, attended by more than sixty other schools, the group appointed a seven member Rules Committee and set up what would later become known as the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or the NCAA.From this committee came the legalization of the forward pass, which resulted in a more open style of play on the field. The rough mass plays, which once caused so many serious injuries, and even deaths, were prohibited by the committee. Also prohibited was the locking of arms by teammates in an effort to clear the way for their ball carriers. Still many early teams wore no leather football helmets. But eventually the advantages of the leather football helmet were seen . And soon one could watch a game and observe half the players with out leather football helmets and half with leather football helmets to protect their heads.The length of the game was shortened, from seventy to sixty minutes, and the neutral zone, which separates the teams by the length of the ball before each play begins, was also established. The earliest balls wree called watermelon footballs and they have become almost extinct along with the earliest leather football helmets . Today these leather football helmets can only be found in museums or among fine collections of leather foorball helmets.   Today, almost one hundred years since the inception of the NCAA, the sport of college football flourishes as one of the most popular of collegiate games. Colleges and universities are placed into three divisions under NCAA guidelines and each division has many conferences. Seasonal and conference play leads to post-season bowl games, where the champions of conferences meet to play in front of a world-wide television audience. Some of these bowls include the Rose Bowl, played on New Years Day in Pasadena, California, between the Big Ten and Pacific Ten conference champions.   The leather football helmet evolution follows the great early college game as leather helmets first showed up in the 1890s and then the leather helmets gradually develeoped into a stronger and more protective piece of gear.     PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL: ITS BEGINNINGS Professional football was first played soon after the demise of the Intercollegiate Football Association, around eighteen ninety-five. In nineteen twenty, the American Professional Football Association was formed; one year later it was reorganized and in nineteen twenty-two was renamed the National Football League. Some of the great early Pro players who wore leather football helmets were Red Grange , Jim Thorpe, the early Packer team , the early Bear team , the early Giant team , the early Philadelphia team, and the early Pittsburgh team. Players wore varying style of leather football helmets . And the colors also began to show up on the early 40s leather football helmets. Before that most helmets were plain natural leather either brown, cordovan , or black. Color leather football helmets allowed the quaterback to better see the receiver at long distances when he was far down the field. So more and more teams began to paint their leather football helmets to put some visibility sizzel into their games. .Unlike the APFA, which handed out franchises far and wide with little discretion, the NFL, from nineteen forty-six to forty-nine, was limited to ten teams.   Gradually in the late 1940s the leather football helmet began to be replaced by early plastics. However many of the early plastic football helmets shattered and caused injury. So. the leather football helme survived thru the World war II years and lingered into the early 1950s. But gradually the old leather football helmet was replaced by the plastics and more and more teams began to add logos and symbols to their helmets . the early leather football helmets were spared this clutter and reamined unadorned right into the 50s eara. Soon howevre the old leather football helmet faded into history. many pooreer high school teams and JR high teams still used these old leather helmets right into the 1960s and 70s . Today the leather football helmet is practically extinct and can only be found at museums or in fine collections.The APFA, on the other hand, consisted of twenty three teams in the year between its inception and the change-over in becoming the NFL.A merger in nineteen seventy, fifty years after the inception of the first pro football association, combined sixteen NFL teams with ten AFL teams to comprise one league with two conferences. In the nineteen eighties, further expansion was proposed and by the ninety three-ninety four NFL season, approval was given for a thirty-team league. The next step towards growth of the league would be to realign the NFL into eight different divisions, each with four teams.Pro football, like its college counterpart, was not without its failures. Among the number of competitive leagues that have folded in failure are the All-American Football conference, nineteen forty-six to forty-nine, the American Football League, nineteen sixty to sixty-nine, and the World Football League, nineteen seventy-four to seventy-five.Arena Football, an indoor league played in the spring with eight man teams, debuted in nineteen eighty-seven. It is still played, but does not enjoy the popularity or success that is found in the National Football League.   PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TODAY: A BUSINESS...From its humble beginnings in eighteen sixty-nine, when the first intercollegiate game was played between Rutgers and Princeton, football has become a multi-billion dollar business in its professional form.Once watched by no more than a handful of loyal sideline enthusiasts, football is now available for worldwide viewing. With the advent of cable television, dozens of high school and college games can be watched over Friday and Saturday afternoons. Pro games are televised on Sunday and Monday nights, with at least half a dozen games televised each weekend during the season. At the end of each NFL season, champs from both the National and American conferences meet in the Super Bowl to determine a national champion. This game, always played in January, has been called the most watched sporting event of all time, with a viewing audience from around the entire globe, watching and listening to the televise in dozens of languages.Although television commercials foot a very large part of the bill, the competition between networks for the coverage rights highly inflates the value of NFL franchises. In nineteen twenty, a franchise cost one hundred dollars. By nineteen sixty, each was worth approximately two million dollars. In nineteen ninety three, when the league decided to expand, selling teams to Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida, the cost rose to one hundred forty millions dollars per franchise.In the same year, the NFL signed a five-network, four year television contract, totaling almost four and a half billion dollars.Some may say that if cheerleading was truly a sport then it would have been included with other sports long ago. He will frequently use the word draw here for lack of a more precise term to refer to the use of graphics software. All bodies will rotate easiest about their center of mass. In the year 2000, the popularity of arena football led to the formation of arena football 2, an expansion league. The ancient egyptians swam, raced, wrestled, and played games with balls. Pass patterns are the routes the receivers run downfield after the snap of the ball.The rare kinds and styles of leather football helmets worn by college and Pro teams can still be seen at their resoective college campus museums , at the College football hall of Fame Museum and or the Pro Football hall of Fame Museum in Canton Ohio. Trap block: when a player is allowed through the enemy line only to be blocked by surprise from another player behind the line. Suicide squad: see special teams. Like the offense, the defense does not want to make its intentions obvious, especially when the coach calls for an aggressive defense such as a blitz a charge against the quarterback. So, there are different shoes here, sorted by style and bottom. Some teams use a 3-4 defense, with three defensive lineman, four linebackers, and four defensive backs. The officials then place the ball at the point where the team has ended up. For example, our running back would have the following momentum . Many players apply two-sided carpet tape to their shoulder pads so that the jersey sticks to the pads! The winner of this game is crowned the national champion. He also considers the strengths and weaknesses of the defense. Role model - cheerleaders are looked up to by their peers. Today many sports history enthusisasts look for old leather football helmets for their collections or to offer as awards or commemoratives. These old battle helmets, the leather football helmet, will always represent the great history and evolution of the game itself.   Check out each year of the All Staters, 1948 to 2006 and see the various football helmets, from beginning, (leather, plastic to todays helmets).

 

 

 

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