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Ridgewood H.S. Athletic Hall of Fame: ‘Quintuple threat’ Nancy Hogan to be inducted

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Ridgewood H.S. Athletic Hall of Fame: ‘Quintuple threat’ Nancy Hogan to be inducted

OCTOBER 17, 2014    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014, 12:31 AM
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of stories profiling the 2014 inductees into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

In January of 1993, a letter was received by the athletic department at Ridgewood High School nominating Nancy Hogan as a candidate for what was going to be the first class honored in the RHS Athletic Hall of Fame.

That class was never inducted, and the Hall of Fame did not officially get organized until 2004 — 30 years Hogan’s RHS graduation. Her nominator stated at that time, “Nancy epitomizes the high standards of conduct and sportsmanship we look for in our Ridgewood students”

Today, when one looks at what Hogan achieved as a student-athlete, and then what she achieved as a coach of student-athletes, it is easy to see why that nominator was able to make such a bold statement in 1993.

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Ridgewood H.S. Athletic Hall of Fame: 1913 football “Invincibles” to be honored

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Ridgewood H.S. Athletic Hall of Fame: 1913 football “Invincibles” to be honored

September 19, 2014    Last updated: Friday, September 19, 2014, 12:31 AM
The Ridgewood News

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of stories profiling the 2014 inductees into the Ridgewood High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

RIDGEWOOD — In the era of the “leatherhead” and the infancy of the forward pass, there were few football teams in New Jersey that could match the ability of the Ridgewood High School gridiron standouts of 1913.

Their story would become a legend amongst sports fans who followed the Maroons in those days and beyond. The newspapers called them “Ridgewood’s Invincibles,” and over the last century, their story had been lost but was brought to light again through coincidence. It surfaced after the 2013 Maroon football squad suffered the same fate — 100 years later, almost to the day — as the stalwarts who, in 1913, put on their pads and battled courageously for the honor of RHS.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/sports/high-school-sports/football/induction-for-invincibles-of-1913-1.1091621#sthash.UjLc37v3.dpuf