Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Football

Lou Anarumo Jr.

Lou Anarumo Jr., the defensive coordinator for the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals, started his coaching career as the volunteer junior varsity head coach at his alma mater, Susan Wagner High School, while he was still an undergraduate at Wagner College. He honed his craft through a 22-year college career, coaching running backs at Wagner and defensive backs at Syracuse, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Harvard, Marshall, and Purdue, before jumping to the NFL’s Dolphins, (Read more...)

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Larry Anderson

Larry Anderson was a three-sport star at Curtis High School, a two-time all-city centerfielder, football MVP and basketball point guard, and winner of the 1960 Robert Maranville Award as the top student-athlete in New York City. Anderson captained the baseball team at NYU, and played on the basketball team ranked No. 1 for a time in the country. He returned to coach the Curtis basketball team to three Island titles, and guide the Wagner College (Read more...)

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Joe Andruzzi

Joe Andruzzi, a 6-3, 315-pound guard from Tottenville High School and Southern Connecticut State, won three Super Bowls as a mainstay of the New England Patriots offensive line. Andruzzi, who played 10 NFL seasons with the Packers, Patriots and Browns, became a symbol of strength after Sept. 11, 2001, when his firefighter brothers responded to the World Trade Center; and at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he carried an injured woman from the chaos.(Read more...)

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Andy Barberi

Andy Barberi, a High School All-American lineman at Curtis High School and team captain at New York University, played all 60 minutes in NYU’s 1936 upset of Vince Lombardi and Fordham’s previously undefeated “Seven Blocks of Granite.” Barberi returned to Staten Island to coach football for 29 years at his alma mater, where the football field bears his name.(Read more...)

Dennis Barrett

In Dennis Barrett’s 14 seasons as the football coach at Monsignor Farrell High School, the Lions went 103-13-6, a record that included six undefeated seasons, a 33-game winning streak, and a victory in New York’s first Metro Bowl. Barrett moved on to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, where he took over a program that hadn’t won a game the year before he got there, and left as the winningest coach in school history.(Read more...)