Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

(d. 1968) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1983 Joseph Dunn was the first Jewish captain of a Hartford Public High School football team. His 1917-18 teams were undefeated and unscored upon. Dunn also played for the Lyrics, a […]

(d. 1970) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1984 Born in Russia, Edward Dragat came to Hartford as an infant in 1897. He graduated from the Arsenal School where, in 1910, he was a catcher on the baseball team.

(1911-2008) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1984 Born in Albany, Edith Cooper graduated from Albany Teacher’s College and moved to Hartford after living in Washington, D.C. where she worked for the U.S. government during World War II. In

(1905-1955) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 Born in Hartford, Abraham “Butch” Cohen played football on Dartmouth College’s undefeated 1925 national championship team and graduated from there in 1927. At Hartford High School, he played baseball, football and

(-1994) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 William Chtoiner was a graduate of Weaver High School, where he played baseball, basketball, and football. He was chosen for the first team of the All-city baseball team in 1934. He

(1907-1986) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Greater Hartford, 1985 Sportswriter Louis Black immigrated from Lithuania as a young child, graduated from Hartford Public High School and majored in journalism at New York University, graduating in 1930. While

(1908-2000) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame 1984 Born in Hartford in 1908, Bialeck was the first Jewish student to letter at Weaver High School, where he starred for four years on the football team and two years on

(1901-1995) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Greater Hartford, 1983 Bill Savitt was a lifelong business and civic leader in Hartford. He developed his jewelry business from a one-man operation that he started at the age of 18

(1917-2002) Inducted into Sports Hall of Fame 1984 Born in New York City in 1917, Abrahms graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and the City College of New York. He became one of the outstanding table tennis players in the

(1923-2014) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1983 Born in Hartford, Sylvia Greenbaum graduated from Weaver High School in 1940. She was a WAVE in the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving as Aviation Machinist Mate 1st Class.