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Clifford Clark

Clifford Clark

  • Class
    1935
  • Induction
    2000
  • Sport(s)
    Wrestling, Men's Cross Country

- Cross Country/Wrestling, Springfield College

- Captain, Springfield College Cross Country

- Captain, Springfield College Wrestling

- Taught and coached at Bay Shore High School, NY for 30 years

- Coached soccer, wresting and tennis throughout his career

- Tennis teams won two League Championships, two Suffolk County Championships and one Long Island Championship

- Served as Long Island delegation the committee that started the New York State High School Championship Tournament, 1963

- Over 25 years as wrestling coach (1940-1964), had a dual meet record of 194-74-5 for a winning percentage of .724

- Wrestling teams won six League Championships

- Wrestling teams won eight Suffolk County Championships from 1949-1961 and one Long Island Championship (1960)

- Under Coach Clark, the Bay Shore wrestling team was in the top ten in Suffolk County for 25 straight years

- 24 out of 25 years his teams were among the top ten teams in the Long Island Championship Tournament

- Coached 95 Suffolk County Finalists and 55 Suffolk County Champions

- 1965 team was undefeated

- Teams of 1948, 1950, 1959, 1960 suffered only one loss each 

- Inducted into the New York State Wrestling Hall of Fame, 1975

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