
Honoring Athletes, Coaches and
Benefactors whose outstanding performance has earned them the right to be enshrined in the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame!
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The Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame
1986
Inductee
RICHARD EARL McKEEBY
ATTENDED NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 1953. PLAYED FOOTBALL
AND WRESTLED, EARNING VARSITY LETTERS IN BOTH SPORTS, IN HIS JUNIOR AND
SENIOR YEARS. IN 1950 HE WAS NEW JERSEY AAU, 115 LB. CLASS CHAMPION.
HE REPEATED THIS FEAT IN 1951. WRESTLED FOR NEWTON A.A. FROM
1950-1953.
COLLEGE FOUND McKEEBY
AT
RUTGERS WHERE HE PLAYED 150 LB. FOOTBALL AND WRESTLED FROM 1953-1957. A
VARSITY LETTER WINNER FROM 1955-1957. HIS SENIOR YEAR HE SCORED THE
FASTEST PIN, 23 SECONDS. HE GRADUATED WITH A BS-MS IN 1957.
IN
1957-1961 HE WAS ASST. COACH AND HEAD COACH OF RAHWAY HIGH SCHOOL
WRESTLING TEAMS. HE WAS HEAD COACH OF THE EAST BRUNSWICK RECREATION
LEAGUE. IN 1957-1972 AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE NEW JERSEY WRESTLING
COACHES AND OFFICIALS ASSN. AT THE PRESENT TIME HE IS AN ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR IN THE BIOLOGY DEPT. AT UNION COLLEGE CRANFORD, NEW JERSEY.
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