Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame

Relive It All Again

Jack McGinley

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Jack McGinley, who played on the St. Peter’s High School team that made it to the 1938 city championship game, returned to make the Eagles the standard against which all Staten Island basketball programs were measured.
McGinley’s teams won 319 games – three wins for every loss – and 14 Staten Island championships in his 21 seasons at the helm. In one stretch the Eagles won 32 straight in the Staten Island High School League.

Basketball
Class of 1997

Did You Know?

Only three Staten Island boys’ basketball teams made it to a city championship game. The others were the 1977 McKee team led by Hall of Famer Kenny Page and the 1938 St. Peter’s team that included Hall of Famers Jack McGinley and Buddy O’Grady.

Gloria Cordes Elliott

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Gloria Cordes Elliott, who wasn’t allowed to play in organized leagues while growing up, was a teenager when she left home to join the All American Girls Professional Baseball league, organized by baseball owners as a hedge against the manpower drain during World War Two.

She grew into one of the pitching mainstays of the league, a three-time All Star who pitched 24 consecutive complete games and won 16 in 1952, and was the winning pitcher in that year’s All-Star Game.

Baseball
Class of 1997

Did You Know?

Gloria Cordes Elliott and her husband Ed Elliott, honored as one of the Staten Island Little League founding fathers, are the only husband and wife in the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame.

Bill Britton

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Bill Britton played 15 years on the PGA Tour, winning the 1989 Centel Classic and posting 23 top 10 finishes, including the Masters and PGA Championship.
He won the first of two Met Amateur titles at 17, making him the youngest champion and the first from a public course, to go with a Met Open, a New York City Publinx title, and a national junior college title.

Golf
Class of 1997

Sheila Tighe

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Sheila Tighe scored 2,208 points at Manhattan College, more than any player, male or female, in the school’s long basketball history.
Tighe was a High School All American at St. Peter’s, where she scored a Staten Island record 1,891 points. She was the Metro Atlantic and Northeast Player of the Year at Manhattan, and a two-time finalist for the Wade Trophy, given to the outstanding female player in the country.

Basketball
Class of 1996

Bill Shakespeare

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Bill Shakespeare was an All-American triple-threat tailback at Notre Dame, where he led the Irish in passing, rushing, and scoring, and set school punting records that still stand.
Shakespeare threw the winning touchdown pass in Notre Dame’s 1935 comeback victory over Ohio State, later voted The Greatest Game Ever Played. He is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Football
Class of 1996