PLAYER
Jamaica Football Club. Queens-Nassau Football League (unlimited)
Glendale legion. One year the team was undefeated and gave up something like 6 or 12 points the entire season.
Glenride Football Club: Queen-Nassau Football League.
University of Kentucky: - 1957 (spring training--made the team as a walkon).
Wagner College: 1957,1958,1959
COACH
The Garity Juniors: 1957,1958,1959*
The Garity Seniors: assistant.1960, Head coach: 1962* and 1963*, asst. 1964, 1965..
Long Island Jets Semi-pro team. Head coach. 1966-67. Northen Division Champs 1967.
Numerous high school affiliations.
Nassua Community College. Assistant 1968 (this was the schools first team).
Eastern Military Academy. Assistant (Defensive Coordiator) 1969-1977.
Jerico High School. Assistant(Defensive Cooordiator) 1978-1983. (conference title 1983)
Assistant coach Long Island High School All Stars Games: 1976 and 1986.
Middle School-Cape Henlopen Delaware 2001-2002
Cape Henlopen High School: Assistant Varsity Coach. 2003.
Cape Henlopen High School. Head Coach: Freshman team. 2004.
5 pages with references to Torchy in State of Grace: Memoir of Twilight Time:
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Torchy Smith, was well drilled and disciplined, but it was the youngest team in the league. The year before, the Knights ..."
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Torchy Smith's youthful Garity Knights were growing up fast and surprised Kelly's team by playing them even for most of the ..."
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Torchy Smith's fully matured Garity Knights, who completed a second-straight undefeated season as ..."
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Torchy was so thrilled after his first victory over the Lynvets that he raced across the field, embraced the flabbergasted Kelly, ..."
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Torchy Smith (Garity Knights), Jimm Gantz (Garity Knights), Roger Smith (Garity Knights), John Hourican (Rockaway Knights), Richie Knott (Rockaway Knights), Clare ..."
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| "... plucky Garity Knights ended Rockaway's undefeated and unscored-on streak, upsetting them 8-0. Garity, coached by a savvy, red-haired firebrand named | |
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on Page 220 |
| "... won two more games after holding on to beat Rego Park. They handled the Marine Park Uniques easily , but | |
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on Page 255 |
| "... was as good as he'd even been, but Rockaway beat them in the semifinals, only to lose the title to | |
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on Page 256 |
| "... 256 State of Grace they went about becoming the new Lynvets. | |
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from Back Matter |
| "... the kindest possible way, what a dork I had become. My thanks as well to these old and worthy rivals: |