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Friendly Rivals
Before they were opposing coaches in Staten Island’s greatest traditional football rivalry, the Curtis-New Dorp game on Thanksgiving Day, Sal Somma (third from left) and Andy Barberi (third from right) were teammates at Curtis and again at New York University, where they were among the stars of a 1936 upset of a legendary Fordham team.
Every Thanksgiving for 30 years, despite being the principal figures on opposite sides of a storied rivalry that drew crowds of 10,000 and more, the two coaches met for breakfast before the game.