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DICK YERG
If journalism is the first rough draft of history, it's appropriate that Dick Yerg, a former history major, was in the trenches chronicling local sports for morethan three and a half decades.
Dick yerg,a dyed-in-the-wool native Nyacker, spent four years covering Rockalnd County sports for the Rockland edition of the The Record of Bergen County, N.J., then embarked on a 32-year career with The Journal-News and its parent company. He served as Journal-News sports editor from 1967 to 1975, then spent nine years as asports ediotr of Westchester Rockland Newspapers, a chain of newspapers in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties that includes the Journal-News. Yerg returned to the Journal-News as a sports writer in 1984 and remained until he retired in 1999. |
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BILL YUDA
Elected in 1981 ... 1927 graduate of Pearl River H.S. ... played on the first football team in Pearl River school history, in 1924 ... powerfully built fullback who earned three varsity letters in football, was captain of the 1926 team and chosen as an All-County back that year ... also played baseball and basketball and ran track for the Pirates ... he earned a football scholarship to Manhattan College and played four years of varsity on the offensive line, primarily at guard but also had considerable playing time at tackle ... after graduating from Manhattan with an engineering degree, Yuda enjoyed a brief pro football career ... in 1932 he played guard for the Paterson (N.J.) Nighthawks, and in 1933 and ‘34 he was a guard for the Philadelphia Eagles ... he became Rockland’s second professional football player, after Howard Parker Talman of Spring Valley ... Yuda later traded in his helmet and pads for an official’s uniform ... he spent 38 years, from 1932 to 1970, as a gridiron official in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, working on the high school, prep school and professional levels ... he helped organize the Hudson Valley Football Officials Association ... Yuda died in 1991. |
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