This Day in History: 1960-12-07

At Mahwah High School’s fall sports assembly, the trophy awarded each year to the winner of the Ramsey-Mahwah varsity football game, was presented to the Mahwah School by Ramsey’s Dick Murray. “If your Ramsey High can’t win , ” he told the assembled students and faculty, “we root for Mahwah.” The trophy was purchased the year before by the Ramsey student council. It was on display in the Administration Building at Mahwah until after the 1961 game. Varsity letters in Football and Cross Countryand “M” for freshman football were awarded and comments made about the season by Coaches George Carpenter, Hugo Marcolini, Vince Herold, Jim Siano, John Ebbels and Richard Stack.(Bristow)