History, Borough of Collingswood. Accessed March 15, 2022. "The new high school on Collings Avenue, named after Edward C. Knight, had its first graduating class in 1910.... The first football team to represent the high school took the field in 1909 and was a success from the beginning."
Hall of Fame Member Bios 2004, Collingswood High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Accessed September 3, 2014. "Dickey suffered an eye injury at 16 which exempted him from active military service, but after graduating from Collingswood High in 1939 he did serve in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves and also helped the war effort by working the midnight shift at New York Shipyard."
Hall of Fame Member Bios 1993, Collingswood High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Accessed June 5, 2016. "Cathy Engelbert: Cathy is known to be the only Collingswood High athlete to achieve All-South Jersey honors in three sports."
Hall of Fame Member Bios 1993, Collingswood High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Accessed September 3, 2014. "In high school, besides his pitching prowess, he lettered as a reserve quarterback on the championship football team of 1946 and then served as co-captain of the 1947 unit."
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Callahan, Kevin. "Gary Williams headed to Hall of Fame", Courier-Post, April 8, 2014. Accessed August 7, 2019. "Gary Williams has gone from playing pickup basketball on the old courts outside Collingswood High School to the prestigious Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame."
Mills, Edwin 1928–, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Accessed August 7, 2019. "Edwin Smith Mills is an emeritus professor of real estate and finance at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was born on June 25, 1928, in Collingswood, New Jersey. After graduating from Collingswood High School in 1946, he served two years in the U.S. Army and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers."
Brett, Phil. "Collingswood rallies past Camden Catholic for Group 2 title", Courier-Post, November 10, 2000. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Trailing third-seeded Camden Catholic 1–0 late in the game, the top-seeded Panthers scored two goals in the final 10 minutes to defeat the Irish 2–1 and win the South Jersey Group 2 championship."
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"$1.3 Million in Pacts Given For Voorhees Twp. School", Courier-Post, July 29, 1964. Accessed March 23, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The regional district includes Gibbsboro, Berlin Borough and Voorhees Township. At present, high school pupils from Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township attend classes at Haddonfield and Collingswood High Schools while Berlin pupils attend Edgewood High School."
"High School Has Room for 1,298 Pupils", Courier-Post, December 15, 1961. Accessed April 2, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The ultimate capacity of the new Haddon Township High School, Memorial ave., will be 1,298, Dr. John W. Brown, superintendent of schools, announced to the board of education Thursday night. Dr. Brown said the students would be fed into the new school gradually with the enrollment of the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades reaching 894 next September.... Collingswood Board of Education has informed Haddon Township that tuition for latter students would be increased next year from $460 to $560."
Sadler, Ruth. "Colls tarn back Friends for state lacrosse crown", Courier-Post, June 5, 1976. Accessed March 7, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Whether the old, never-washed black glove had anything to do with it, Jackie played the best game of her life, sparking Coilingswood to the first NJSIAA lacrosse championship with a 6–2 victory over Moorestown Friends in Cherry Hill Stadium. It was the first NJSIAA tournament title in Collingswood's long athletic history.... The Delaware Valley Lacrosse League champion Colls finished the season with a 17–1 record, while runnerup Friends was 12–3–1 overall."
McGurk, Tom. "Panthers capture state title in 2d OT; Tracy Bucholski scored on a penalty stroke to give Collingswood a 2–1 win in Group 2 field hockey", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 2000. Accessed March 8, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "The Collingswood field hockey team proved again yesterday that its games were not for the weak of heart. Concluding a remarkable state tournament run that included two other scintillating finishes, senior Tracy Bucholski buried a penalty stroke with 7 minutes, 3 seconds left in the second sudden-death overtime period as the Panthers defeated Voorhees, 2–1, in the NJSIAA state Group 2 final at the College of New Jersey. The state title was the first since 1993 for the Panthers, who finished their season at 22–1."
"Collingswood's late rally trims Harrison in 2 OT", The Record, March 23, 1986. Accessed November 15, 2020. "The question: What caused the Harrison girl's[sic] basketball team to lose a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group 2 title game, 76–66, in double overtime, to Collingswood yesterday at Rutgers Athletic Center?... Collingswood (28–1) was able to stem the Blue Tide (26–3) because senior Jeanne Mooney scored 37 points, including 18 of her team's 27 points in a thrilling fourth quarter."
Frambes, Doug. "Colls Rock Rancocas", Courier-Post, March 3, 1967. Accessed November 23, 2020. "Again Collingswood prospered from a splendid team effort. Steve Kaplan (6–6) led the scoring with 23 points and did yeoman work off both backboards."
Brant, Del. "Select Choir Enroute to San Francisco Music Fest", The Daily Journal, May 22, 1979. Accessed February 8, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "'Every group has a first team in something,' says Dr. Gerald Luongo, chairman of the Fine Arts Department at Vineland High School.... That's not unusual since their father was once a three-letter athlete at Collingswood High School."
"Eddie Picken to Follow in Brother's Footsteps", Courier-Post, August 30, 1927, p. 18. Accessed April 11, 2021, via Newspapers.com. Accessed April 11, 2021. "Edward C. Picken, former Collingswood High School and Pennington Seminary three-letter athlete, is to matriculate at Dartmouth College next month."
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Stanmyre, Matthew. "Jersey native David Laury's long basketball journey ends in happiness at Iona", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 20, 2013. Accessed December 29, 2023. "As a freshman, Laury attended Collingswood High, but he and his father clashed. He transferred to Riverside High in Burlington County as a sophomore and started living with the family of teammate Corey Williams."
Franks, Serena. "Atlas Shrugged Film Event @ Camden County College", Gloucester Township, NJ Patch, March 26, 2012. Accessed August 7, 2019. "The CCLR is pleased to present Atlas Shrugged, produced by Camden County native, John Aglialoro, who graduated from Collingswood High School and Temple University."
Collingswood High School, South Jersey magazine. Accessed May 28, 2011. "Collingswood High School serves about 850 students in grades nine through twelve from the Collingswood, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne school districts."
Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component."
