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New Hyde Park Football Alum Gather

Members from several teams met at J Paul's to reminisce.

Several members of some of the great football teams gathered on Sunday at to reminisce and hang out.

Dan Connor, who played for the 1975 team and coached for a few years thereafter, said that this is the second time the group has gotten together. The first time was in 1995. Connor is hoping to make this an annual occurrence and perhaps now that John Kiley, another football alum from 1980, is the bar's general manager, that will happen.

The New Hyde Park football team was considered one of the top teams in Nassau County in the late seventies and early eighties, Connor explained. The 1978 and 1983 teams got the Rutgers cups.

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"We stick together," Kiley explained. "We always did."


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