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Welcome
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Great Neshaminy Moments.
November 1946. This
week's article appeared in the November 18, 1946
edition of the Bristol Courier newspaper. It
recounts the Redskins 46 to 0 win over Morrisville
which lead to their first LBC League championship.
Highlighted in the article is the play of Wayne
"Inky" Schneider, Dick Lukens, Bob Griffin and
Warren Tucker. Those 4 players - along with Don
Kaleda and Armand Fizzano who were also on that
year's team - were elected to Neshaminy's Football
Hall of Fame (for a total of six from that year's
squad). Their coach, Mike DeRisi, is also in
Neshaminy's Hall of Fame.
The 1946
team not only captured the crown that year but
posted a fine 7-2-1 record marred only by a a 7-6
loss to a powerhouse Riverside, NJ club and a 13-7
cliff hanger defeat against then non-LBC opponent,
Bensalem. The '46 Redskins also gave up just 46
points in 10 contests (third best ever to this day
at only 4.6 per game) while scoring an at-that-time
monumental total of 226 points. The record by any
Lower Bucks team through that season was 237 which
landed Langhorne-Middletown's 1946 gridiron boys in
second place on the then existing all-time list.
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