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3 unusual facts about The Varsity


The Varsity

The Varsity was featured in the PBS documentary A Hot Dog Program by Rick Sebak.

Mr. Walker was noted for his ability to move the service line quickly, especially during the rush period right before a Georgia Tech football game.

Comedian Nipsey Russell began his entertainment career at The Varsity in the 1940s as a car hop.



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Agua Fria High School

From 2007 to 2009, the varsity team made it to the 4A-I state finals, but fell short of winning the championship to Millennium High School (division rivals) and Sunnyslope High School.

Anthony Wayne Generals

The Generals have 19 varsity sports that compete in the Northern Lakes League (NLL) in northwest Ohio, with the exception of the varsity ice hockey team, which competes in the Northwest Hockey Conference.

Aviv Volnerman

After leaving Israel, Volnerman took up coaching and became the coach of the varsity and junior varsity football teams at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Ben Pucci

Pucci grew up in The Hill, a historically Italian American neighborhood in St. Louis, and attended Southwest High School, where he played on the varsity football team for four years and was named an all-district and all-city player.

Brock Stratton

With fellow NFL player Carlyle Holiday, the two were the only freshmen to make the varsity football team in High School.

Frank Morrissey

Morrissey was the captain of the varsity team from 1918 to 1920 and served as head coach in 1918 when Charles Brickley left BC to join the United States Navy Reserve.

Irving Jaffee

He briefly attended DeWitt Clinton High School, but dropped out after failing to make the varsity baseball team.

Islamic Saudi Academy

Ayman Shawky, a former footballer and a participant in the 1990 World Cup representing Egypt, is now a teacher in the physical education department and is also the coach of the varsity soccer team.

Jerry Lucas

These fans then largely left before the varsity game, sometimes even including football coach Woody Hayes, a noted Lucas fan.

John Papuchis

He graduated from Quince Orchard High School in 1996, where he was a three-sport athlete, including three years on the Varsity baseball team where he earned All-Montgomery County honors as a junior and senior.

Julyan Stone

Julyan attended Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, where he was a member of the varsity basketball team for four seasons.

Kempston and Elstow Halt railway station

Their opening coincided with the introduction of a steam railmotor on the Varsity Line, and each was conveniently sited alongside a level crossing.

Lance Broadway

Broadway was born in Bryan, Texas, and attended Grand Prairie High School, where he was an all-district performer all three of his years on the varsity team.

Malcolm Floyd

As of 2011, Floyd was the varsity football coach for C. K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento, California.

Masahiro Fukasawa

Fukazawa was educated at and played for Shizuoka Gakuen High School, where he led the varsity soccer team to the national championship in 1995.

Michael E. Long

Following his career at JCA, Long went to Christian Brothers Academy to help out with the varsity boys basketball team.

North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer

In 1977, they petitioned the UNC Athletic Director, Bill Cobey, to take the club to the varsity level.

OJ Porteria

Porteria attended Falls Church High School, where he graduated in 2012 and was part of the varsity soccer team and also a kicker for the varsity american football team.

Penn State Nittany Lions baseball

The Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

Phil Heath

Phil Heath grew up in Seattle, Washington, and attended Rainier Beach High School, where he played shooting guard on the varsity basketball team.

Purdue Varsity Glee Club

The Varsity Glee Club's medallions worn by the Glee Club were originally furnished by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in gratitude for charity work done for the organization.

Queen's Golden Gaels

The varsity teams play at the Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty Arena, while the new arena (part of the Queen's Centre project) is being constructed.

Roger S. Penske, Jr.

Penske attended Lehigh University and was the kicker on the Varsity Football team for two seasons.

San Diego Toreros baseball

The San Diego Toreros baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of the University of San Diego, located in San Diego, California, United States.

Stacy Hansmeyer

Stacy played on the varsity team in her freshman year at Norman High School, under coach Sherri Coale.

Steve Krulevitz

He also hosts a weekly Tennis Summer camp at Gilman School and began his tenure there as the Varsity Tennis Head Coach in the Spring of 2012, where he led the team to a 12th place finish at the DecoTurf High School National Championships in Kentucky.

Tim Lahey

He made the varsity team in his first season at St. John's High School, located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts—the first freshman since Ron Darling to be named a member of the senior squad.

Tom Preissing

Preissing played four years as a forward on the varsity team at Rosemount High School before moving on to play two seasons with the Green Bay Gamblers of the USHL.

Westwood Heights Schools

The Varsity Coach of the Hamady Hawks has been Archie (also spelled Archy) Robinson, who was a 13th Round Draft pick in 1972 for the Miami Dolphins.

Wootton Broadmead Halt railway station

Their opening coincided with the introduction of a steam railmotor on the Varsity Line, and each was sited alongside a level crossing.