Bill Murtha, Staten Island’s second 1,000-point scorer and the first to score 50 points against an Island rival, led St. Peter’s High School to a 28-win season. He was MVP of the Iona College Tournament in a losing cause, and the 1961 Jaques Award winner as the Island’s top player.
The star of an undefeated frosh team at Loyola-Chicago, the 1963 NCAA champion, Murtha transferred to George Washington, where he averaged 15 points a game in his only varsity season, before a car accident ended his basketball career.
Class of 2014