Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Basketball

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Bob Bosley

Bob Bosley, a prolific scorer in an era of low-scoring games, led the Curtis High School basketball team to an undefeated season in 1949, when he won the inaugural Warren Jaques Award as Staten Island’s top schoolboy player. Bosley was an All-Met player at Wagner College, where he led the Seahawks to three straight winning seasons, and remains among the all-time leading scorers.(Read more...)

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Nick Bruno

Nick Bruno was the first basketball player to score 1,000 points for a Staten Island high school, the 1957 Jaques Award winner as the Island’s best player while at Port Richmond, and MVP in the Sandlot Alliance Baseball All-Star Game. After finishing his career at Iowa State, Bruno came home to teach, inspiring generations of students at PS 44, Mariners Harbor, with his credo, “A book in one hand, a ball in the other.”(Read more...)

Mickey Burns

Mickey Burns was a three-sport star at New Dorp High School, where he played a starring role in the football team’s undefeated run to the 1964 city championship; and at Missouri Valley College, where he’s a member of the school’s Hall of Fame. In his 13 seasons as the basketball coach at McKee High School, Burns’ teams won four Staten Island championships, and his 1977 Sea Gulls remain the only public school boys’ team from (Read more...)

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Jimmy Collins

Jimmy Collins was an All-Met, All-East, All-American basketball player at St. John’s, where he averaged double-digits – when college basketball scores were in the 20s and 30s – and led the country in scoring. Collins, the father of after-school sports and recreation programs on Staten Island, served as the borough’s Supervisor of Recreation from 1947 to 1964, and was a high school and college referee for 25 seasons.(Read more...)

Larry Cubas

Larry Cubas was a basketball and baseball star at Curtis High School, where he scored 1,142 points and won the 1972 Warren Jaques Award as the Island’s best high school player; and at Dartmouth, where he was an All-Ivy guard, team MVP and two-time captain. Cubas led Dartmouth in scoring three straight years to finish his college career with 1,298 points, fourth best in school history. His game-winning shots against Cornell and Columbia helped lift (Read more...)