2006 Race Honorees

Back Row (L to R) - Coach Witt, Danny Rohling, Joe Gorman, Gene Janikowski, Joe Matt, Frank McMahon, Walt Latorre, Francis Clair, Tommy Finnegan, Tommy Fosberry, Buddy Sirisky, Ernie Jones,Ray Morris, Coach Griffith
Middle Row (L to R) Buddy Rourke, Eddie Jones, Joe Lavalle, Joe Langford, Tim O'Brien, Mickey Robinson, Charles Collingsworth, Michael Hogan, Ken Cone, John Saboe, Charles Miller, Charlie Blanchard, Tommy Brown, Billy Kelly.
Front Row - Skipper Griffith, Fred McKay, Ronnie Barrineau, Eddie Coulter, Frankie Eaton, Roy Barrineau, Jack Pitts, Pug Ravenel, Tommy Vaught, Charlie Rowland, Larry Duffy.

Back Row (L to R) - Buddy Sirisky, Mgr., Pug Ravenel, Tom Fosberry,Coach Hank Witt, Tom Finnegan, Fred McKay, Ernie Jones, Fr. Jerome Powers.
Front Row -Gene Janikowski, Francis Clair, Frank Eaton, Joe Gorman, Danny Rohling.

1954-1955 Bishop England Football Team & 1955 Bishop England Basketball Team

Those of us who have participated in high school athletics appreciate the memories of our successes and our failures, for those memories remain with us as a reminder of our life's journey. High School sports offer individuals a unique opportunity to participate in a level of competition which is neither fanciful nor silly, but exciting and demanding to the student and to the institution. As a high school athlete, we play for our school, our team, but we play for ourselves.

High school athletics occupies an important role in the development of the student athlete. We place an important emphasis on our children participating in sporting activities because of the values they learn and, subsequently, employ in their everyday life.

The P.N. Lynch Council No. 704 proudly dedicates the 2006 Turkey Day Run and Gobble Wobble to the 1954 Bishop England High School Football Team and the 1954-1955 Bishop England High School Basketball Team. These teams, respectively, accomplished a feat that has not been repeated in Bishop England history. The football team achieved a record of 10 wins and 0 losses. They beat St. Paul, Charleston High School, Myrtle Beach, Carlisle, Wade Hampton, Lake City, Walterboro, Andrews, Moultrie, and St. Andrews high schools.

Many members of the football team later distinguished themselves as members of the undefeated men's basketball team. That team went 24 and 0, beating such teams as the Summerville Green Wave, the Charleston High School Bantams - three times, the Beaufort Tidalwave, the Rivers Bears, the St. Andrews Rocks, the North Charleston Blue Devils, the Chicora Eagles, the St. Paul Pirates, the Olympia (Columbia) Red Devils, and amazingly enough, the College of Charleston Freshmen Team - twice, and the Citadel Freshmen Team - twice.

The football and basketball teams were lead by their Coach, D. C. Henry (Hank) Witt. Last year, the school honored the late Coach Witt for his accomplishments with a bronze plaque.

The members of the 1954 football team included Jack Pitts, Ernie Jones, Bubba McMahon, Walter LaTorre, Frankie Eaton, Skipper Griffith, Fred McKay, Ronnie Barrineau, Eddie Coulter, Roy Barrineau, Jack Pitts, Charles Ravenel, Tommy Vaught, Charles Rowland, Larry Duffy, Buddy Rourke, Eddie Jones, Joe Lavelle, Joe Lanford, Jimmy O'Brien, Mickey Robinson, Charles Collinsworth, Mike Hogan, Kenneth Cone, John Saboe, Charles Miller, Charles Blanchard, Tommy Brown, Billy Kelly, Danny Rohling, Joe Gorman, Gene Janikowski, Joe Matt, Francis Clair, Tommy Finnegan, Tommy Fosberry, Charles Sirisky, and Ray Morris.

The men's basketball team consisted of Fred McKay, Joe Gorman, Gene Janikowski, Walter LaTorre, Francis Claire, Frankie Eaton, Ernie Jones, Danny Rohling, Charles Ravenel, Tommy Fosberry, and Tommy Finnegan.

We congratulate these men for an accomplishment yet to have been repeated in the Lowcountry. We hope they will cherish their memories for years to come.