Golden Anniversary Team for 1996

Atkinson St. Joseph, 1946-47-48 Basketball Teams

Take away a three point loss opening the 1946-47 season to Class A Creighton Prep and Atkinson St. Joseph would have won 78 games in a row over a three-year period, a streak which nobody would have touched in Nebraska high school basketball until the 70's.

In those days, St. Joseph went looking for competition, more times than reaching out to schedule a Class A team.  Beyond that game, St. Joseph 's size was Class D and that's where the NSAA had them assigned.  But the Bluejays opted to play up to Class C come tournament time and won state championships in that class in 1946 with a 27-0 record and again in 1947 with a 28-1 record. 

St. Joseph then won its first 23 games of the 1947-48 season for its official 51-game winning streak. 

Members of all three teams are honored.

George Barrett

Bob Berigan

Myron Collamer

Fred Deemer

Jerry Judge

Charles Kokes

Gary Kokes

Bob Mack

Bill Miller

Pat Miller

Leo O'Malley

Leon Schaaf

William Schom

Ed Scott

Tom Slattery, Jr.

Don Straka

Ben Troshynski

Leonard Troshynski

Tom Troshynski

Gerald Vogel

Ben Weichman

John Weichman

Lew Wewel

George Witter

Coach Tom Slattery

Assistants: Harold Grof, Frank Mancuso

Cheerleaders:   Gladys Domina, LaQuita Parsons, Marianne Tasler (Jensen), Norma Jean Parson, MaryCoonnelly, Ethel Pettinger, Rita Troshynski, Dorthy Wilkinson, Mary Ellen Engler, JoAnn Seger.  Mascots: Pat Keating, Bob Faust.