All State Football, Basketball, 1950 & 1951 Delaware's Outstanding Athlete, 1951 Delaware Hall of Fame, 1981... Led state in scoring, football and basketball, 1950 & 1951 State Champion 100 yrds, 9.9 seconds, 1951 Played football and baseball for Duke Coach of year in High School Football in Durham, NC

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FROM (beginning) 1948 TO PRESENT
OLD HIGH SCHOOL and FOOTBALL PHOTOS SECTION BELOW: Pre-All State, (before 1948)and after... ( Click Thumbnail photo then click on 4 blue arrow sign, bottom right to Expand to Regular Size) then CLICK back button to go back to photos
Old Photos of High School Football and Friends
1937 PS du Pont	1939 WHS	1943 WHS vs PS	1944 PS du Pont	1945 WHS vs PS
1947 Archmere	1939 WHS	1939 WHS	1940 Prices Run	1939 PS du Pont
1941 Buck Buchanan	1941 WHS	1941Howard High	1941 Bill Smith	1941 PS du Pont
1941 Mercersburg	1942 Brown Vo	1942 WHS	1942 WHS	1943 Conrad
1943 Archmere	1943 Brown Vo	1943 PS du Pont	1943 Tower Hill	1943 Archmere
1946 Sallies	1947 Brown Vo	1947 Archmere	1947 Sanford Prep	1902 WHS
1930 Sallies	1930 WHS	1930 WHS	1930 WHS	1930 WHS
1931 Sallies Buzzy O'Neill	1933 Sallies Stalwarts	1933 WHS Team	1934 WHS Capts.	1935 Newark Team
1935 WHS vs Sallies	1936 Del. City Star	1936 Port du Pont	1938 Eagles vs Clippers	1938 Newark Team
1938 PS du Pont	1938 PS du Pont	1938 WHS vs PS	1938 WHS	1938 A. I. du Pont
1893 Dover High	1895 WHS	1902 WHS	1929 Newark High	1932 Sal Leader
1954 All 5th Div.	1933 Sallies Stalwarts	1948 Archmere	1950 WHS vs PS	1951 WHS FANS
1951 Conrad vs WHS	1951 High School All American Game	1954 Caesar Rodney football team	1955 Delmar players	1956 Conrad High
1957 Middletown Co-Capts.	1958 Friends	1959 Mt. Pleasant's starting line	1960 De La Warr High	1961 Rehoboth Beach & John M. Clayton
1962 Archmere linemen	1962 Sallies Co-Capt. & Dim Montero	1963 Howard High	1964 St. E's	1965 William Penn
1966 Gunning Bedford	1966 Newark, Strengari	1967 Middletown, Herky	1967 Howard vs St. E's	1968 Tatnall vs St. And.
Late 40's, early 50'	Late 40's, early 50'	Late 40's, early 50'	Late 40's, early 50'	Late 40's, early 50'
1950 Sallies	Late 40's, early 50'	Sallies vs PS, at PS field, early 50's	1968 Tatnal vs St. Andrews	1968 Swann & Tucker
1969 Conrad vs Wm. Penn	1969 St. E's vs St. Andrews	1970, Sussex Central	1970 Newark vs Conrad	1971 WHS 1st State Champs
1972 Concord vs Dickinson	1973 St. Mark's State Champs	1974 Christiana vs Wm. Penn	1975 Div. I Champs Caesor Rodney over Newark	1976 Glasgow vs Brandywine
1977 Caesor Rodny vs Sussex Central	1978 Milford vs Caesor Rodney	1979 Newark vs Christiana	1980 Dickinson's Ray Bordley	1981 Seaford vs Dover
1982 St. Mark's Matt Janicki	1983 Wm. Penn's Mike Pinkett	1983 Lake Forrest vs Cape	1984 CR vs Seaford	1985 Laurel High
1986 Sallies over Dover	1987 Wm Penn Giant linemen	1988 Howard vs Dickinson	1989 Caravel vs St. E's	1990 Lake Forrest vs IR
1991 A.I. vs Glasgow	1992 Polytech vs Laurel	1993 Cape upsets Dover	1993 Luke Pettigout	1994 Smyrna nips Delmar
1995 Friends vs St. Andrews	1995 Wm. Penn vs Brandywine	1996 St. Mark's vs Wm. Penn	1997 Brandywine's William Haywood	1997 Caravel vs Mt. Pleasant
1998 Howard vs Middletown	1999 Sallies vs Middletown	1999 CR vs Cape Henlopen	2000 CR vs Sussex Central	2000 St. Mark's vs Sallies
2001 MVP'S	2001 St. E's vs Caravel	2001 Sussex Tech vs Sussex Central	2002 Delmar vs Smyrna	2002 Concord vs Howard
2003 Smyrna vs Laurel	2003 St. Mark's vs Newark	2003 Concord vs Howard	2004 Concord High	2004 Newark defeats Middletown, Div. I
2004 Div. II Champs	2005 Dover vs Cape Henlopen	2005 Sallies vs St. Mark's	2005 Middletown vs Sallies	2006 Hodgson Vo Tech Football Team
2007 Lineman of year	2007 Defensive Player of year	2007 Offensive Player of year	2007 Div. II State Champs	2007 Div. I State Champs Middletown over Sus. Cent.
1956 PS DuPont	1951 WHS	1951 WHS vs PS DuPont	1950 WHS vs Brown Ventresca scores!	1931 Buzzy O'Neill Sallies

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I remember the "old Wilmington Ball Park" on 30th and Gov. Printz Blvd. , back in the late 40's and early 50's...many a game I played there. All of our Thanksgiving day games against PS DuPont, (I played for High School...in those days, all you had to say was "high school") and they knew you played for Wilmington High. We would have crowds of 9 to 10,000 at the Thanksgiving game...a great rivalry...some great players too...Jim Murphy, Marty Apostolico,Dick Toner, Frank Bonkowski, Bobby Piane, Bobby Viscount, Tony Ventresca, Mario Renai for the Red Devils and Gary Scott, Junie Eisenman, Armand Poli...many more, also played our Brown and Howard games there too. Brown had the Earl Parkers, John Voli, (always tough "little guys"...Howard had Ransom, Napier, Gator Lewis, always real "fast guys too". Played Newark there too, they had the "Great" Bunny Blaney, one of the best ever to play on the "old ball park turf".

Who do you guys think were some of the best football players in your era, best rivalrys, best over-all players in state, best QB's, runners, line-backers, etc. Give your opinion, if you have any photos, please send them, KEEP IT CLEAN!!!

Bob LaFazia "49 & "50 Wilmington,De delawareallstatefootball@comcast.net

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Bob,

A very Happy, Healthy and prosperous New Year to you also!

Thank you very much for taking the time to put this together and for maintaining it..you're the best!

Sincerely,

Harry (Alexander)

V+J

Sallies '63

I just thought, that picture of Tony running past Dallas Green was a great shot(I like Dallas and respect him, but he would never catch little Tony, ever!!)

Clarke Jester, WHS, '51

I found a couple of old 1949 items, one is a photo of the '49 backs from Brown Vocational...

The other is a 1949 football program of Brown Vocational vs Wilmington High at the old Wilmington Ball Park,

Jack Balaguer, Brown, 1951

Some old High School football program covers from Brown Vocational...1949 Line-up: (Click on images)

1950 Brown program with Penns Grove... Line-up: (Click on images to enlarge)

Jack Balaguer, Brown, 1951, All State, 1950

Brooks Armored Car Football Champs...1960's, former All Staters, Denny LaFazia, (Sallies), Ruly Carpenter, (Tower Hill), Vinnie Scott, (Sallies), other players are: Junie Eisenman, (PS), Tony Ventresca, (WHS), Lou Romanolli...BROOKS TEAM

Tony Ventresca, Wilmington High, class of 1951

Four years of Turkey Day football from 1948, P.S. duPont vs Wilmington High...13 TO 7, WHS WINS... (Click on to enlarge)...1949...WHS, 35, PS, 0....1950...WHS, 13, PS, 019501951, WHS wins 12 to 0 1951...Governor

Bacon Trophy, WHS won, 13 to 0

Webmaster, '49 & '50...WHS

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