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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 6, 1925
"Hackensack High Quintet Wins From Rutherford Five, 47-25; Encounter Passiac Tomorrow"
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 6, 1925
"Hackensack High basketball team is in second round of state tourney
as result of victory over East Orange,"
March 13, 1925
"Hackensack High's Golden Comet may destroy dream of orange quintet in New Jersey Basketball classic."
March 14, 1925
"Captain Howard Bollerman leads Golden Comet to its greatest court victory in game with formidable Orange High team."
March 16, 1925
"Stupidity of sleepy state officals causes elimination of local quintet from New Jersey basketball tourney."
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
March 5, 1925

This was the beginning of reporting on the state tournament.   This article tells of the upcoming game of Hackensack playing East Orange in the opening round.  Hackensack had lost to East Orange only a few weeks before 30-28 but they were favored to win according to the article.  What is about to unfold is a scheduling nightmare for those involved but the interesting thing about the articles in the paper the day before the tournament was to begin was the fact that Passaic wished to schedule another game with Hackensack to settle the league title and not have it end in a tie.  The article said Hackensack agreed on another game to settle the league title at a neutral court upon Passaic’s request.  Passaic’s request is an interesting note considering what unfolds.

Written by:
Bob Meli
July 18, 2017

 

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