Roman Catholic High School for Boys
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The Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia opened in 1890 as an all-male high school
located at the intersection of Broad and Vine Streets in Center City
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, United States
.
Catholic
high school in North America
. Despite Cahill's dream, due to increased costs of staff and facilities, free admission to the school ended in the 1960s.
, with the blessing of Archbishop of Philadelphia
Cardinal John Krol, embarked on a campaign to save the school.
Roman's Alumni Association, which had existed for over 70 years, came together to raise funds and increase enrollment. The rector
of the school even applied to have the building itself kept as a historic landmark, which was accepted. The significance of the historic landmark designation means the building on the corner of Broad and Vine Streets can never legally be torn down. Also, its exterior must always stay the same — though it does not have to remain a school.
es"; Roman served as the school for the boys from the Center City
, Chinatown, East Falls
, Fairmount
, Manayunk
, North Philadelphia
, and Roxborough
regions of Philadelphia.
Today, however, Roman enrolls boys from almost every Philadelphia neighborhood, including The Near and Far Northeast
, West Philadelphia
, Fishtown
, Port Richmond
, South Philly
, New Jersey
, Fox Chase, and the outlying suburbs.
Roman Catholic was built to hold about 750 to 800 students. However, because of high demand, it is above capacity and holds closer to 1100. To select its students, Roman holds an entrance test
every October, November, and December. Of the 600 or 700 students that apply, only about 300 to 350 will be accepted. Students who do well on these tests also may receive scholarships ranging from a few hundred dollars to as much as $4000 a year. Usually, about 40 students receive scholarships.
Roman, like other high schools, has a tracking system: that is, first track (also called honors track), second track, and third track. Roman, however, is unique in that it tracks its honors class into three classes. While students in the honors classes learn the same material at the same pace, it creates a better learning system to have students of the same level together.
. The main superstructure is of white marble
raised on a foundation of granite
. Its white marble tower, 150 feet tall and topped in copper, was destroyed by fire in 1959.
In 1953, the three-story original building received an additional two-story wing that housed physics and biology labs, as well as a new cafeteria.
In June 1997, ground was broken for yet another addition. This new structure housed additional class rooms, offices and a state-of-the-art Information Center, TV studio, and multi-media computer lab. The addition also nearly doubled the size of the existing cafeteria.
In the fall of 2006, the 13th St. Annex was opened, dedicated to alumnus James McSherry. This annex holds a weight room, the alumni offices, an all-purpose room for wrestling, and classrooms for Senior and Junior Theology and English, in addition to Sports Medicine class.
(Short Version)
When Day mounts the East, What flag does he hold?
He flings out his banner of Purple and Gold!
And when at the eve, He sinks to his rest,
With Purple and Gold still aflame is the West!
Then stand by the flag, The young and the old!
Its colors are yours – The Purple and the Gold!
A smile on the lip, A tear in the eye,
Salute ye the colors of Catholic High!
Refrain:
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
in basketball
since the League's inception, winning 28 of 86 championship games since 1920. Almost a dozen future NBA players have played for the Roman squad during that time.
Roman has also had success in football
. In the 2006 playoffs, Roman finished with a strong 9-3 record while losing to La Salle
in the second round of Catholic League playoffs. In 2007, Roman defeated Northeast Catholic, and Father Judge en route to a win in the Catholic League Championship, 10-9 over St. Joseph's Prep. This was Roman's best record ever at 12-2. This marks the team's second Red Division championship since the inception of the new Catholic League format, which began in 1999 and ended in 2007.
Roman Catholic is home to one of the most successful crews
in North America, practicing for over 10 months a year. Roman's crew team sculls (using two oars per man while rowing) rather than sweeps (using one oar a man while rowing). Recently it contributed a Lightweight Four to the Philadelphia Catholic League Rowing championships, finishing second in 2005 to Monsignor Bonner High School by six-tenths of a second. Roman's major sculling rivals are The Haverford School
, Conestoga High School, and Malvern Preparatory School
. In 2003 and 2005, two Roman students represented the United States
at the Junior World Championships in Athens, Greece, & Brandenburg, Germany. In 2006 and 2010, the crew team won the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship.
Roman's golf
team has enjoyed many years of success as one of the top teams in the league. Led by Coach Daniel Hoban '92, a PGA
professional, the team has been able to work well together and learn many aspects of the game from Coach Hoban which has propelled the team to immediate success. Although this past season was a rebuilding year, the team still finished with a 12-5 record for the regular season but finished with a disappointing 8th out of 9th place at the Catholic League Championships.
The lacrosse
team, relatively new at Roman, has had great success in recent years. Although they have never made it to the championship game they have made it to the semi or quarter finals each of the last four seasons. Their biggest rivals are St. Joe's Prep and Monsignor Bonner.
Ice hockey
, which is not a school-sponsored sport, but a club sport, has been the most successful sport at Roman since 2000. They captured their first championship in 2000. Then titles came in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, the Cahillites had a tough time, although it led to a little playoff run, which ended by losing in the semifinals, in overtime, versus Bishop Shanahan High School
. The Philadelphia Catholic League does not sponsor a hockey league, and Roman participates in the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League. In 2010 the hockey team won the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located at the intersection of Broad and Vine Streets in Center City
Center City, Philadelphia
Center City, or Downtown Philadelphia includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2005, its population of over 88,000 made it the third most populous downtown in the United States, after New York City's and Chicago's...
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
History
Roman Catholic, or simply Roman, as it is often called, was founded by Thomas E. Cahill, a nineteenth-century Philadelphia merchant. Cahill saw the need to create a school that offered a free Catholic education for boys, past their grammar school years. He died before he saw his vision come to life; however, the wishes that he laid out in his will were followed. As such, Roman Catholic opened its doors in 1890 and offered a free education to boys. Roman is the oldest free diocesanDiocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
high school in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. Despite Cahill's dream, due to increased costs of staff and facilities, free admission to the school ended in the 1960s.
Crisis of the 1980s
Roman was not always as successful as it is today. In 1985, the Archdiocese slated the school for closing due to lowering enrollment. However, Roman's alumni associationAlumni association
An alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students. In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools , fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organisation...
, with the blessing of Archbishop of Philadelphia
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in southeastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. It covers the City and County of Philadelphia as well as Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties. The diocese was...
Cardinal John Krol, embarked on a campaign to save the school.
Roman's Alumni Association, which had existed for over 70 years, came together to raise funds and increase enrollment. The rector
Rector
The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
of the school even applied to have the building itself kept as a historic landmark, which was accepted. The significance of the historic landmark designation means the building on the corner of Broad and Vine Streets can never legally be torn down. Also, its exterior must always stay the same — though it does not have to remain a school.
The "New" Roman
Before 1996, students who attended Roman were from "feeder parishParish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
es"; Roman served as the school for the boys from the Center City
Center City, Philadelphia
Center City, or Downtown Philadelphia includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2005, its population of over 88,000 made it the third most populous downtown in the United States, after New York City's and Chicago's...
, Chinatown, East Falls
East Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
East Falls is a neighborhood in the Northwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. East Falls is located adjacent to Roxborough, Manayunk, and Germantown, and Fairmount Park. The neighborhood runs along a stretch of Ridge Avenue that is only a few miles long, along the banks of the...
, Fairmount
Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fairmount is a United States neighborhood in the North Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name "Fairmount" itself derives from the prominent hill on which the Philadelphia Museum of Art now sits, and where William Penn originally intended to build his own manor house...
, Manayunk
Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Manayunk is a neighborhood in the northwestern section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River, it contains the first canal begun in the United States . The area's name comes from the language of the Lenape Indians...
, North Philadelphia
North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
North Philadelphia, nicknamed North Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is immediately north of Center City...
, and Roxborough
Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Roxborough is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to...
regions of Philadelphia.
Today, however, Roman enrolls boys from almost every Philadelphia neighborhood, including The Near and Far Northeast
Northeast Philadelphia
Northeast Philadelphia, nicknamed Northeast Philly, the Northeast and the Great Northeast, is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the 2000 Census, the Northeast has a sizable percentage of the city's 1.547 million people — a population of between 300,000 and 450,000,...
, West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though there is no official definition of its boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Line Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest, and...
, Fishtown
Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fishtown is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located immediately northeast of Center City, its borders are somewhat disputed today due to many factors, but are roughly defined by the triangle created by the Delaware River, Frankford Avenue, and York Street...
, Port Richmond
Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Port Richmond, also referred to as simply Richmond, is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is notable for its extremely large Polish immigrant and Polish American community. The neighborhood is also home to sizable Irish, German and Italian communities as...
, South Philly
South Philadelphia
South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west.-History:...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, Fox Chase, and the outlying suburbs.
Roman Catholic was built to hold about 750 to 800 students. However, because of high demand, it is above capacity and holds closer to 1100. To select its students, Roman holds an entrance test
Entrance examination
An entrance examination is an examination that many educational institutions use to select students for admission. These exams may be administered at any level of education, from primary to higher education, although they are more common at higher levels....
every October, November, and December. Of the 600 or 700 students that apply, only about 300 to 350 will be accepted. Students who do well on these tests also may receive scholarships ranging from a few hundred dollars to as much as $4000 a year. Usually, about 40 students receive scholarships.
Roman, like other high schools, has a tracking system: that is, first track (also called honors track), second track, and third track. Roman, however, is unique in that it tracks its honors class into three classes. While students in the honors classes learn the same material at the same pace, it creates a better learning system to have students of the same level together.
Campus
The school, built on the northeast corner of Broad and Vine Streets, is an imposing figure of gothic architectureGothic architecture
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
. The main superstructure is of white marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
raised on a foundation of granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. Its white marble tower, 150 feet tall and topped in copper, was destroyed by fire in 1959.
In 1953, the three-story original building received an additional two-story wing that housed physics and biology labs, as well as a new cafeteria.
In June 1997, ground was broken for yet another addition. This new structure housed additional class rooms, offices and a state-of-the-art Information Center, TV studio, and multi-media computer lab. The addition also nearly doubled the size of the existing cafeteria.
In the fall of 2006, the 13th St. Annex was opened, dedicated to alumnus James McSherry. This annex holds a weight room, the alumni offices, an all-purpose room for wrestling, and classrooms for Senior and Junior Theology and English, in addition to Sports Medicine class.
Rectors
- Msgr. Nevin F. Fisher (1890–1902)
- Msgr. Hugh T. Henry (1902–1919)
- Msgr. William P. McNally (1919–1933)
- Rev. Leo D. Burns (1933–1938)
- Rev. John A. Cartin (1938–1952)
- Msgr. James T. Dolan (1952–1966)
- Msgr. Charles V. Gallen (1966–1975)
- Rev. Edward Cahill (1975–1981)
- Rev. Richard J. McLoughlin (1981–1990)
- Msgr. Francis W. Beach, `68 (1990–1997)
- Rev. Paul C. Brandt (1997–2006)
- Rev. Joseph W. Bongard, `77 (2006–2010)
- Rev. John B. Flanagan (2010–present)
- Terry "give me your ID" Kane
Alma mater
The Purple and Gold(Short Version)
When Day mounts the East, What flag does he hold?
He flings out his banner of Purple and Gold!
And when at the eve, He sinks to his rest,
With Purple and Gold still aflame is the West!
Then stand by the flag, The young and the old!
Its colors are yours – The Purple and the Gold!
A smile on the lip, A tear in the eye,
Salute ye the colors of Catholic High!
Refrain:
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
- Msgr. Hugh T. Henry
Athletics
Roman Catholic has been prominent in the Philadelphia Catholic LeaguePhiladelphia Catholic League
The Philadelphia Catholic League is a high school sports league composed of eighteen Catholic High Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania suburbs. The league itself was founded in the summer of 1920 on the steps of Villanova academy by an Augustinian monk, who would later be...
in basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
since the League's inception, winning 28 of 86 championship games since 1920. Almost a dozen future NBA players have played for the Roman squad during that time.
Roman has also had success in football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
. In the 2006 playoffs, Roman finished with a strong 9-3 record while losing to La Salle
La Salle College High School
La Salle College High School founded in 1858 is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school for boys located in Wyndmoor, a community in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, outside Philadelphia. The school is staffed by a lay faculty and the Christian...
in the second round of Catholic League playoffs. In 2007, Roman defeated Northeast Catholic, and Father Judge en route to a win in the Catholic League Championship, 10-9 over St. Joseph's Prep. This was Roman's best record ever at 12-2. This marks the team's second Red Division championship since the inception of the new Catholic League format, which began in 1999 and ended in 2007.
Roman Catholic is home to one of the most successful crews
Sport rowing
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
in North America, practicing for over 10 months a year. Roman's crew team sculls (using two oars per man while rowing) rather than sweeps (using one oar a man while rowing). Recently it contributed a Lightweight Four to the Philadelphia Catholic League Rowing championships, finishing second in 2005 to Monsignor Bonner High School by six-tenths of a second. Roman's major sculling rivals are The Haverford School
The Haverford School
The Haverford School is a private, non-sectarian, all-boys college preparatory day school, junior kindergarten through grade twelve. Founded in 1884 as The Haverford College Grammar School, it is located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, nine miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Philadelphia's historic...
, Conestoga High School, and Malvern Preparatory School
Malvern Preparatory School
Malvern Preparatory School, commonly referred to as Malvern Prep, is an independent Catholic middle and high school for boys located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It was started and is still run by Order of Saint Augustine...
. In 2003 and 2005, two Roman students represented the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
at the Junior World Championships in Athens, Greece, & Brandenburg, Germany. In 2006 and 2010, the crew team won the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship.
Roman's golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
team has enjoyed many years of success as one of the top teams in the league. Led by Coach Daniel Hoban '92, a PGA
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
professional, the team has been able to work well together and learn many aspects of the game from Coach Hoban which has propelled the team to immediate success. Although this past season was a rebuilding year, the team still finished with a 12-5 record for the regular season but finished with a disappointing 8th out of 9th place at the Catholic League Championships.
The lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
team, relatively new at Roman, has had great success in recent years. Although they have never made it to the championship game they have made it to the semi or quarter finals each of the last four seasons. Their biggest rivals are St. Joe's Prep and Monsignor Bonner.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, which is not a school-sponsored sport, but a club sport, has been the most successful sport at Roman since 2000. They captured their first championship in 2000. Then titles came in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, the Cahillites had a tough time, although it led to a little playoff run, which ended by losing in the semifinals, in overtime, versus Bishop Shanahan High School
Bishop Shanahan High School
Bishop Shanahan High School is located in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Catholic school system. Named after Right Rev. John W. Shanahan, the third bishop of Harrisburg, the school is currently the only Archdiocesan High School in Chester County...
. The Philadelphia Catholic League does not sponsor a hockey league, and Roman participates in the Lower Bucks County Scholastic Hockey League. In 2010 the hockey team won the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship.
Notable alumni
- Michael BantomMike BantomMichael Allen Bantom is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'9" power forward/center from Saint Joseph's University, Bantom won a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a member of the United States national basketball team, who lost a controversial final game to the Soviet...
(1969), member of the 1972 Olympic BasketballBasketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics-Group B:-Medal bracket:-Classification brackets:5th–8th Place9th–12th Place13th–16th Place Forfeited match.-Gold Medal Match controversy:...
team, NBA player, and later NBA executive. - Msgr. John J. Bonner (1908), Founder of the Philadelphia Catholic LeaguePhiladelphia Catholic LeagueThe Philadelphia Catholic League is a high school sports league composed of eighteen Catholic High Schools in Philadelphia and the surrounding Pennsylvania suburbs. The league itself was founded in the summer of 1920 on the steps of Villanova academy by an Augustinian monk, who would later be...
, 2 years before the PIAA. Remembered as greatest educator of his time. - Michael Joseph BransfieldMichael Joseph BransfieldMichael Joseph Bransfield is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who currently serves as Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston.-Biography:...
, current Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-CharlestonRoman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-CharlestonThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising the state of West Virginia. It is a conjoined diocese with two centers of worship, one day expected to be split into two separate...
. - Joseph I. BreenJoseph I. BreenJoseph Ignatius Breen was an American film censor...
(1906), Hollywood movie censor; VarietyVariety (magazine)Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
magazine said of him: "More than any single individual, he shaped the moral stature of the American motion picture"; winner of an Academy Award - Rasual ButlerRasual ButlerRasual Butler is an American professional basketball player who plays for CB Gran Canaria in Spain. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Point Breeze area of south Philadelphia.-La Salle:...
(1998), NBA player. - Charlie Carton (1920s), early professional football player.
- Dallas ComegysDallas ComegysDallas Alonzo Comegys is an American former professional basketball player.- Professional career :Comegys was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 21st overall pick of the 1987 NBA Draft...
(1983), successful college career at DePaul UniversityDePaul UniversityDePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...
, NBA player. - Robert Evans (1949), First African AmericanAfrican AmericanAfrican Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
Captain of University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
Football Team. - John FacendaJohn FacendaJohn Thomas Ralph Augustine James Facenda was an American broadcaster and sports announcer. He was a fixture on Philadelphia radio and television for decades, and achieved national fame as a narrator for NFL Films and Football Follies...
(1933), a radio and television broadcast fixture in Philadelphia from the 1930s through the early 1980s. He is perhaps best known as the deep baritone narrator of NFL FilmsNFL FilmsNFL Films is a Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based company devoted to producing commercials, television programs, feature films, and documentaries on the National Football League, as well as other unrelated major events and awards shows...
. - Charles FullerCharles FullerCharles H. Fuller, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Early years:...
(1955), won the 1982 Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
for "A Soldier's Play," a story about racism in the military. - Matt Guokas, Sr.Matt Guokas, Sr.Matthew George Guokas, Sr. was an American basketball player and broadcaster.A 6'3" forward from Saint Joseph's University, Guokas played one season of professional basketball with the Philadelphia Warriors of the BAA . He averaged 1.7 points during the Warriors' 1946-47 championship season...
(1934), played for the Philadelphia Warriors 1947 championship team. Father of Matt Guokas, Jr. - Marvin HarrisonMarvin HarrisonMarvin Daniel Harrison is a former American football wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse...
(1991), one of the greatest wide receivers in NFL history. - Marc JacksonMarc JacksonMarc Anthony Jackson is a former American professional basketball player.-Professional career:...
(1993), successful college career at Temple UniversityTemple UniversityTemple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
, NBA player. - Jim KatcavageJim KatcavageJames Richard Katcavage was an American football defensive tackle in the National Football League who played thirteen seasons for the New York Giants. From 1952 until 1956, Katcavage played college football at the University of Dayton and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1956 NFL Draft...
(1952), 13 year NFL player with the New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
, 3 Pro Bowls. - Lari KetnerLari KetnerLari Arthur Ketner is an American professional basketball player. A 6'9", forward/center, Ketner played college basketball at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 49th overall pick of the 1999 NBA Draft.Ketner played in two NBA seasons for...
(1995), successful college career at University of MassachusettsUniversity of MassachusettsThis article relates to the statewide university system. For the flagship campus often referred to as "UMass", see University of Massachusetts Amherst...
, NBA player. - Joey Maxwell (1922), early professional football player.
- James P. McGraneryJames P. McGraneryJames Patrick McGranery was an American lawyer and politician.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, he served in World War I as an observation balloon pilot with the United States Army Air Service, and as an adjutant in the One Hundred and Eleventh Infantry...
Attorney General of the United States of America under President Harry S. Truman. - William "Speedy" MorrisSpeedy MorrisWilliam "Speedy" Morris is a retired college basketball coach. He was head coach at La Salle University from 1986 to 2001. He led the Explorers to four NCAA tournament appearances...
(1960), famed Roman Catholic High School and LaSalle University basketball coach. - John Ogden (1999), former daily traffic reporter for WCAU.
- Scott PaxsonScott PaxsonScott M. Paxson is an American football nose tackle of the National Football League who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2006...
(2001) former Penn State all conference defensive tackle. Currently plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers. - Joseph A. Pepe (1960), current Bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas.
- Albert F. SaboAlbert F. SaboAlbert F. Sabo was an American lawyer and judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. He is best known for presiding over the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
(1938), judge who presided over the Mumia Abu-JamalMumia Abu-JamalMumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate", and his sentence is one of the most debated today...
murder case. - Bob Schafer (1951), Villanova UniversityVillanova UniversityVillanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
player, NBA player. - Daniel E. ThomasDaniel E. ThomasDaniel Edward Thomas, VG is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia.-Biography:...
(1977), current Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. - Joe Tyrell (1948), player for the Philadelphia Eagles.