January 2, 1925
"Passiac Quintet Flashes Most Impressive Form of Season Against Arlington"

January 3, 1925
"Hackensack High School Five to Play Rutherford in First League Contest"

January 8, 1925
"Hackensack loses 54-37 to Passiac After 4th Quarter Rally"

January 27, 1925
"Hackensack Quintet Will Play Paterson High Five Tomorrow Afternoon"

January 29, 1925
"Hackensack Five Easily Trounces Paterson By a Large Score of 64-19"

January 31, 1925
"East Orange High Quintet Rallies in Last Half To Defeat Hackensack Five"

February 2, 1925
"Passiac Extended to Defeat Bryant High Basketeers"

February 3, 1925
"Leonia High Five Should Give Hackensack Workout for Clash With Passiac"

February 5, 1925
"Hackensack High School Quintet Tunes Up For Clash With Passiac By Slaughtering Leonia, 60-16"

February 7, 1925
"Hackensack Hopes For State Championship Following Big Victory From Passiac Team"

March 5, 1925
"Hackensack High school clashes with East Orange in opening game of state tourney at Shanley's Gym in Newark."

March 14, 1925
"Captain Howard Bollerman leads Golden Comet to its greatest court victory in game with formidable Orange High team."

March 17, 1925
"George Merrill give impressive plea for Hackensack which stumps officals but they render a ridiculous decison."

March 18, 1925
"Captain Howard Bollerman easily the outstanding basketball star in the Northern New Jersey loop."

March 19, 1925
"Hackensack High school courtmen marking time for third Passaic game."

March 21, 1925
"Local high school five easily downs Newburgh before a crowd of 1500."

March 23, 1925
"Passaic captures title in a spectacular contest with Union Hill quintet."

March 24, 1925
"Northern New Jersey gain majority of places on All-State basketball selections."

March 26, 1925
"Hackensack and Passaic high school quintets complete practice for big clash." 

March 27, 1925
"Golden comet clashes with Passaic high school wonder team for title of the North Jersey league tonight."

March 28, 1925
"Golden Comet's big attack in the last quarter stops Passaic high wonder team."

Bergen Evening Record
Thursday January 8, 1925

        Hackensack lost 54-37 on a Passaic fourth quarter rally after leading in the third period. Coach Blood was there again watching and things just didn’t seem the same Passaic was making long passes not shooting confidently until it woke up in the fourth period before the large crowd at the Paterson Armory.
Something was different about this game and these two teams.  The Hackensack players revealed to everyone they were capable of winning, the problem was they did not believe they could at the time.  Here is what W.J. Madden wrote at the end of the article of January 8, 1925. 

TEAM LOSES HEART
It is a terrible thing to intimate that a team which had fought with indomitable courage through three periods of the most hectic plays ever witnessed in scholastic basketball, suddenly quit. They didn't quit, but merely lost that triumphant attitude which had possessed them in that third period drive.
If losing confidence and suddenly becoming imbued with the idea that you cannot win is quitting then the local team quit cold as an ice burg.  They didn't play with the attitude of victory after that shot of Pashman’s, but rather with the humble acceptance of a defeat.
It was one contest where the final score did not show the relative merits of the two teams.  Passaic is not eighteen points better than Hackensack.  However, the fact that they are champions of the league and a much heralded aggregation helped them show in figures that they were.