GERALD “JERRY” MARINO (Athlete, Charter Class of 1998)

Jerry Marino is the only Warren resident ever named a Providence Journal-Bulletin Honor Roll Boy (or Girl for that matter).

Lettering in baseball, basketball, and football at Warren High School, he was named an All Class C football offensive and defensive back in 1963.  Then, in 1964, he captained the first of eight Pat Abbruzzi-coached championship football teams.

The second leading scorer in the state (and the leader in points per game average), Jerry was named All Class C Eastern and All State.

Upon his graduation the Providence Journal-Bulletin awarded him their Honor Roll Boy designation for 1965.  His efforts were best described in this discussion of the championship year Warren versus Bristol game, “Running into a maze of Bristol tacklers, he would lower his head and steam forward, carrying the enemy for extra yardage.”

Jerry then enrolled at Harvard University, where he was a member of the Cantabs’ 1968 undefeated football team.  At the end of that season he played in one of the most famous games in college football history, as Harvard scored sixteen points in the last forty-two seconds to tie Yale, 29-29.

 As a youngster he was a member of the Little League Baseball Senators, champions in the 1959 and 1960 campaigns.

(Jerry and his San Diego-based Marino Group edited, designed, and published the Hall of Fame’s A Diary of 101 Years of Warren Athletics in 2003.)