Ok you know who you are PAHS yes I have written several posts on it and great to have in my blog. However, need to tell you about the wonderful experience of being part of the soccer/football team of Perth Amboy High School (PAHS)!. Therefore , here is a bit more and some old old pictures for my memories and hopefully your enjoyment to read/see this post. Thanks
Known as the “City by the Bay,” Perth Amboy is made up of four and ½ square miles on the eastern border of Middlesex County. With a population of approximately 50K+, the town is a residential, blue-collar community situated on the Raritan Bay, approximately 30 miles (about 48 km) southwest of Manhattan. Perth Amboy features a historic, recently revitalized waterfront area and a bustling downtown business district.
Perth Amboy High School ( PAHS) is a four-year comprehensive community public high school which serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, New Jersey. The current Perth Amboy High School was built in 1971, to replace an earlier building that opened in 1881 (and this older building became the William McGinnis Middle School which I attended before! ) .The school mascot is a panther!! Go Panthers!
The Perth Amboy schools have it on the High School (lycée): https://www.paps.net/perth-amboy-high-school.aspx
The Perth Amboy High School Panthers compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, (GMC) which is comprised of public and private high schools in the Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes.
While at Perth Amboy High School, i hook up with the latin american community there as well as the Portuguese. I did read up that the amateur team of Perth Amboy Portuguese club of which I played way back has re started the team as mention in the local Portuguese American newspaper El Lusoamericano. More in Portuguese here: Perth Amboy Portuguese soccer
The NJSIAA webpage on Perth Amboy: https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/perth-amboy-high-school
Some trivia of PAHS : Led by Brian Taylor, the 1968 boys basketball team won the Group IV state championship, defeating Neptune High School by a score of 72-70 in the tournament final at Atlantic City’s Convention Hall . And the Middlesex County tournament could have been name the Perth Amboy county tournament as we won it on many occasions! Dating back to 1927, Perth Amboy has had a Thanksgiving Day football (American) rivalry with Carteret High School that was listed at 8th on NJ.com’s 2017 list “Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football”. Yes indeed a big game even if we were that good in the sport.
The Soccer program had some success around the 1971 year and then went dormant until revive again in 1975 of course when I played on the teams thru 1977 central defender and we were ranked 1st in Middlesex County by the local News Journal newspaper, and as high as 6th in the NJ state ranking of the Newark Star-Ledger (NJ) newspaper.
The old Star Ledger newspaper New Jersey now on High School soccer news: https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2021/09/boys-soccer-live-updates-results-and-featured-coverage-for-tuesday-sept-14.html
My Central New Jersey newspaper (old news journal) on high school soccer: https://eu.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/soccer/2021/09/08/boys-soccer-daily-updates-highlights-2021-season/5779454001/
In the off season, summers; we played at Rudyk Park complex underneath the Outerbridge to Staten Island, NYC, which was used by many to play summer league soccer/football sometimes with as many as 40 nationalities playing! I believe the park still there but not much soccer news from it. The playing here was the highlight of my playing time there and many friends some still with me in touch!
The Perth Amboy local Guardian newspaper: http://www.amboyguardian.com/
The city of Perth Amboy; https://www.perthamboynj.org/
Lots of flashes and memory fading but still a Panther, after all they say is for life! Very happy to still have school friends with me today after 44 years gone by and almost as much without seeing each other!!! Life is beautiful and I thank them all!!! Perth Amboy will be with me forever after all I writing to you in English thanks to the schooling there!!! Hope you enjoy the post and my younger pictures!
And we keep in touch in Facebook with the “I went to Perth Amboy High School” group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204418579/about
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all!!!
Paris1972-Versailles2003 
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