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| Clarence "Bones" Gilbert (L) TC Class of 1950 with teammates Norton "Norty" Levine and Dan Flemming - gold medal champions in the National Seniors Three-Man Basketball Tournament held earlier this year. |
The year was 1950 and the highly successful Golden Wave varsity basketball team featured players with colorful names like “Baldy” Logan, “Tex” Feldenzer and “Bones” Gilbert. Other standout performers included Ted Matecki and Fran Goeke. Many of us have vivid memories of those exciting days at the Chestnut Avenue gym but just remembering isn’t enough for Clarence Gilbert. At age 77, “Bones” is still running the boards and he continues those winning ways. In 2006 he was invited to work out in the Philadelphia area with two super senior hoopsters, Norton “Norty” Levine (Miami U) and Dan Flemming (Temple U). They formed a three-man team which has won all but one tournament they entered over a three year span. In August 2009 they peaked by winning the Gold Medal at the National Senior tournament played at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Successful in eight straight games, they eliminated teams from all over the USA. Gilbert has maintained his love for the game by joining a group of athletes of all ages from the JCC in Ewing Township which has since become the Ewing Senior & Recreation Center. “Amazingly, these guys still love to play full court games,” Bones said, “and I give them all the credit for the success I have experienced in the three-on-three competition.” |