Garity Knights

Before the Garity Knights were formed in 1957 there was a proud football tradition in Ridgewood. Torchy, Gene, Dom and others played on teams in the early 50's and some photos of that era are starting to surface. At the most recent Lynvet reunion (2006) Torchy was reunited with a teammate of his - Jack Meyers. Jack had read the Timberg book and came down from New Hampshire to attend the reunion where he made contact with Torchy. Since then Jack has located a few of their teammates and one of them: Tom Wilcox, who played for the Glendale Legion, was considered to be one of the best that ever played in Pop Warner. Tom has supplied a few of the photos below. You can see that the league press coverage in the early 1950's was great, ii included photos as well as writes and scores and statistics.

Tommy Wilcox tackling Larry Kelly--1951





This photo is from the league awards dinner in 1952



The press coverage was so good--that they even had photos promoting the games--this
one from 1951.



The following photo was supplied by Tommy Wilcox, This is from 1952. Tommy is #21, Torchy is #77 and Jack Meyers is #89. The setting is Glenridge park. The person in the background with the hat may be Teddy Ippolito.