{"id":628,"date":"2001-11-22T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2001-11-22T22:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proto.derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=628"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:32:42","slug":"football-luncheon-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/football-luncheon-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Luncheon 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;\">In addition to the coaches and team captains, each squad brought back a former player to speak of their experiences. Matt Ramia, a 1994 graduate of Shelton High School and former All Housatonic League player spoke first and recounted his experiences and all that he learned from his years at Shelton High School. Matt recently passed the bar exam in the state of Connecticut and is the son of\u00a0 Shelton High School headmaster Donald Ramia. Derby&#8217;s guest speaker was Rick Dunne who continues to serve his home town as the Economic Development Director for the town. Rick played on a winning Derby team in 1984 and earned the Silver Turkey award for his outstanding play. Rick lauded his former coach Lou DeFillipo and inspired the Derby players with an account of Derby&#8217;s inspiring victory over Seymour in 1980 and noted that high school football games are played by enthusiastic teenagers who can accomplish almost anything if they believe in themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_634\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OkoJohn2001.jpg\" alt=\"John Oko\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OkoJohn2001.jpg 492w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OkoJohn2001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derby Coach John Oko<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DerbyCaptains2001.jpg\" alt=\"Derby Captains 2001\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DerbyCaptains2001.jpg 492w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DerbyCaptains2001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derby Captains<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_633\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-633\" class=\"size-full wp-image-633\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DunneRick2001.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Dunne\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DunneRick2001.jpg 327w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DunneRick2001-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Dunne &#8211; Derby Alumni speaker<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_631\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"size-full wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RamiaMatt2001.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Ramia\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RamiaMatt2001.jpg 327w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RamiaMatt2001-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Ramia &#8211; Shelton Alumni speaker<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_629\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-629\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BenantoJoe2001.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Benanto 2001\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BenantoJoe2001.jpg 327w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BenantoJoe2001-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelton Coach Joe Benanto<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_632\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"size-full wp-image-632\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SheltonCaptains2001.jpg\" alt=\"Shelton Captains\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SheltonCaptains2001.jpg 492w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SheltonCaptains2001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelton Captains<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-637\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/11\/trophy2001.jpg\" alt=\"Trophy Presentation 2001\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/11\/trophy2001.jpg 492w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/11\/trophy2001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Past Rotary President Jack Walsh presenting the Rotary Trophy to Shelton Coach Joe Benanto and his captains.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900; font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Shelton<\/strong><\/span> won the game by a score of 39 &#8211; 0. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicvalley.org\/derby\/ALBUM\/Thanksgiving01\/index.htm\">Click here<\/a> for the story of the game and more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the coaches and team captains, each squad brought back a former player to speak of their experiences. Matt Ramia, a 1994 graduate of Shelton High School and former All Housatonic League player spoke first and recounted his experiences and all that he learned from his years at Shelton High School. Matt recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football-luncheon","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}