Wow! He probably played with Bobby Goldberg who was a running back my Mom's year (Class of 1960).
Back then, they were not the Hi-Tides, but the Typhoons, most likely.
Don't remember Jimmy Dooley.
One guy I knew well from that era was Lou Hayes, about Class of '58. I worked with Lou as a day camp counselor at the rec center in Surfside. My first real job. Made $12.25 a week.
Lou was a jack of all trades at the rec center, did pool work, etc. There was another guy working there whose name I can't recall. Leading rusher for Beach and then played baseball at UM. Probably before Fraser. People don't realize that UM baseball was coached for a while by a baseball immortal, Jimmy Foxx, who was just behind Babe Ruth in HR in a season with 58. (Who was the other one, Hank Greenberg?) Younger people on here might not understand the significance of an earlier era of baseball greats. Pre-steroids, it was amazing to watch as Maris and Mantle chased those records. I'm not saying the great hitters of today are doing the stuff but the older guys were never developed the way current athletes are. That may be due to many other factors. Football players of earlier eras were never as big, fast and developed the way current athletes are.
I remember when UM had a tackle in the early '60's, Rowland "Rex" Benson, who was about 245 as listed in the game program. I was thinking how huge the guy was. Back then, a big OL or DL was 230 or so.
A big question people on the Beach considered was why Beach stunk so much in football. The best athletes wouldn't go out for football. One time, Coach Chuck Feinstein complained about this in an interview. Said "Stew Marcus could punt from here to the mainland," but he wouldn't go out for football. He was 6'4" and we'll put together. Played basketball at UM.
After that interview, some of the very good athletes from basketball showed up at spring practice but that was short-lived. There were some kids who were absolute studs in Optimist Little League football but they wouldn't come out for the team at Beach.
I used to deliver the old Miami Beach Sun newspaper. One day it reported that about 35 or so kids turned out for first day fall practice at Beach. It was typical for other schools, especially major powers to get maybe 85-125 if my memory serves me correctly.
To be blunt, back then, Beach was over 90% ******, and most of the ****** kids did not grow as large as the rest of the population. Most were one generation removed from the very small eastern European immigrants who inhabited South Beach in great numbers. One reason was the poor and very limited food sources and nutrition in eastern European of the time.
Over time, I think American Jews have caught up with rest of the population in size.
I remember a conversation with a guy a bit older than I was who said when they were in Junior high, the teams from the Beach (Nautilus and Ida Fisher) were very tough to beat. But Beach High football was not. The junior high sports were basketball, track and softball, but no football.
Still, I know that, from time to time, Beach produced some great athletes. I used to hear stories about Herb Rich who went to Tennessee or Vanderbilt, and then the New York Giants
EDIT: It was Vanderbilt and Rich became an All-Pro.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Rich
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Still Beach, in my time (early '60's) was not good. I think they started to get better in football in late '60's and early '70's. Maybe that's when Vic Vaccaro came back to Beach to be head coach.
