1930-1932 Hall of Famer Milt Johnson, All State in Baseball, Football, and Outdoor Track, later captained the University of New Hampshire freshmen and varsity football elevens. Although normally a tackle, his triple reverse seventy-five-yard pass to Sheik Dallaire defeated Barrington in Warren High's second year of organized football (1930), 7-0.
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Early 1930s Warren Wanderers Football team included Frankie Mello, Lou Bernardo, and Jimmy Daniels. In 1930 they used a Mello touchdown to defeat the Riverside-based East Providence Coronas, 6-0. The following season they only tied their-then undefeated opponents, with Rick Vitullo having been stopped on the six-inch line early in the game. (Mello and Vitullo are members of the Athletic Hall of Fame, while Bernardo started for the 1929 Warren High basketball team that is also in the Hall.)
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1931 Boxer Jim Abbruzzeese (Abbruzzi). Prominent Warren pugilists have included Abbruzzeese, Baldy Frodyma, Satch Jamiel, the Pratte twins (both bantamweights - and members of the Athletic Hall of Fame), and Jo-Jo Sanchas. (Light heavyweight Satch later served as the trainer for Providence College's Final Four basketball team and Kentucky's NCAA championship five.)
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1931 Warren High School Football Captain Norman Salvatore. This was Hall of Fame Coach Jim McGeough's first gridiron squad. Jim had lettered at both Fordham and Providence College and coached the P.C. track team in his senior season. (Much later in life, Norm became Warren's Postmaster.)
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1931-1936 Hall of Famer Jim McGeough, fiery Warren High School coach. His football teams won titles in 1933 and 1935, and his Hall of Fame 1936 baseball squad reached the state finals before losing to Cranston High. (After leaving Warren, he held a number of teaching and administrative positions in Pawtucket.)
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1932 (Click article once to read more easily.) Leo Sevigny traveled to Northern Rhode Island and joined with a number of professionals to help Chepachet down Slatersville. Batting cleanup, Hall of Famer Leo went two for three before breaking his leg and losing out on a scheduled 1933 tryout with the Boston Red Sox.
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1933 Hall of Famer Henry Pratte, Golden Gloves Rhode Island Bantamweight Champion. He and his twin brother Herb agreed not to fight each other. Thus Henry fought in the Rhode Island competition and Herb boxed in the New England event. (In the middle of the twentieth century Henry was the Town of Warren's Police Chief.)
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1933 Hall of Famer Herb Pratte, Golden Gloves New England Bantamweight Champion. He and his twin brother Henry agreed not to fight each other. Therefore, Herb fought in the New England competition and Henry boxed in the Rhode Island event. (In mid-twentieth century Herb was the President of the Warren Town Council.)
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1933 The Mechanics Fire Company captured the Firemen's Twilight Baseball League championship. Among the league's All Stars were Hall of Famers Donat Brochu, who had just finished his Warren High freshman year, Lefty Greenwood, Charlie McCanna, and Jake Riopel.
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