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  • Honoring Athletes, Coaches and Benefactors whose outstanding performance has earned them the right to be enshrined in the
    Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame!

     

     

     

    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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