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(1911-2006) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 A Hartford native, Romansky played baseball, football, and basketball at Weaver High School and at Maine University, graduating in 1933. In college, he was All-New England in the three sports and

(1906 – 1997) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1983 Abe Silverman was the first Jewish captain of the Hartford High basketball team and was described in the local press as “one of the best young basketball players developed

(1904-1998) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 Judge Saul Seidman was born in Hartford and graduated from Yale University in 1925 and Yale Law School in 1927. At Hartford High School, he excelled in high jump and broad

(1908-1999) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1983 Growing up in Hartford, Nassau was captain of Weaver High School’s first basketball team and was selected as All-State forward. When his family moved to New Haven, he played on Hillhouse

(1917-2001) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1984 A native of Hartford, Naboicheck graduated from Weaver High School in 1936, attended Worcester Academy for a year, then graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He enlisted in the

(1910-1980) Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 1985 Ezra Melrose played varsity football at Trinity College in Hartford, graduating in 1935. In 1938 he earned an MA from NYU. From 1942-45 he served in the U.S. Army Air Force,

Inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame 1983 Bennett Meyers played three sports – baseball, basketball, and football – at Weaver High School and was chosen for the All-City Basketball Team in 1933. He went on to Amherst where he