Fred Olivieri, the Curtis High School football coach for 26 seasons, took over a struggling team and made it the standard against which all public-school programs were measured, winning four city championships and 170 games.
Olivieri, the 1997 Staten Island Advance Sportsman of the Year, sent three of his players to the National Football League, and helped dozens of others to a college education they might not have had without him.
Class of 2012