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from The Observer e-Newspaper — Aug. 26, 2020

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players coming back after being out with injury,” Huseinovic said. “We had some nice incoming freshmen who were going to help us.”

All the pieces were in place, or so it seemed. The Setters looked to be solid, led by their defensive buzz saw from a place that thenUnited States President William Howard Taft called “the beehive of Industry” during a visit to Harrison in 1912, with more than 6,000 people watching and listening.

It was going to be a great college football season for the Setters of Pace. Nothing could stop the Setters.

But then, disaster struck – and struck real hard.

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March and just spread like wildfire across the country. While the virus has been controlled somewhat in most of the states, especially New York and New Jersey, it has not been tapered enough to play college football, especially on the smaller scale.

So with that in mind, Pace University has announced that the school will not participate in any fall sports this year, meaning that Huseinovic and his teammates will have to wait to get back onto the field again.

Pace University officials have announced that they have tentatively planned to bring football back in the spring, a move that Huseinovic applauded.

“Not playing this fall was devastating,” said Huseinovic, expected to be a team leader this year for the Setters. “We put all the work in during the offseason and now this. But on the positive side, this gives us more time to prepare for the spring.”

Huseinovic left for school Monday and will begin to take a full semester of classes.

“It’s like a hybrid,” Husenovic said. “Half will be online, but the other half will be in class in small groups.”

The same will be with football workouts.

“It will be in small groups (by position) or it will be with the guys you live with,” Huseinovic said. “I’m not going to lie. Not playing this fall definitely hurt, but I’m not choosing to look at the negative side. I’m staying positive. Everyone has to deal with something. I’m dealing with this in a positive.”

So with that in mind, Huseinovic went to weekly workout sessions outdoors at the Lyndhurst Recreation facility with the staff of FASST (namely Paul Johnsen and Ryan Marshall) as well as other top local athletes like Petey Guerriero of Lyndhurst, who last week had a workout session with the New York Jets, and Brian Kearns of North Arlington, who is entering his senior year at Stonehill College.

“I love Brian,” Huseinovic said. “We work well together. I work out with Petey a lot. I try to keep up with him, but it’s useless. I think we motivate each other and push each other. I think it helps me because he’s always a step ahead of me. We have a good group there and I’m glad to be a part of it.”

Huseinovic said that his offseason regimen is going to help him in a lot of ways.

“It definitely helps my confidence for sure,” Huseinovic said. “I feel really confident moving forward.”

As for his Pace teammates, Huseinovic said that he has been in touch regularly.

“We do Zoom meetings,” Huseinovic said. “Especially in the spring, we worked with our coaches and stayed in touch a lot.”

The NCAA has announced that all college student-athletes will receive an added year of eligibility because of the pandemic.

“I am definitely going to take advantage of the extra year,” Huseinovic said. “I will hold back a couple of classes.”

Huseinovic is majoring in business management with a minor in fashion marketing – an interesting combination.

“I want to get involved in either sports apparel or urban clothes,” Huseinovic said. “I’m really open to see what’s out there and what I can do. I just have to get my foot in the door.”

So if the Setters are back playing competitively in the spring, then Huseinovic will be good to go.

“We have a very good team, whenever we do play,” Huseinovic said.

Some of his teammates include kicker Benny Franchino of Lyndhurst and his Lyndhurst teammate Paul Cimicata and Harrison native J.J. Scocco, who played his high school football at St. Peter’s Prep.

“J.J. and I have been the best of friends since we were like four years old,” Huseinovic said. “We’ve always been very close. It’s great to have him here with me. With the addition of the freshmen, I just have to play the role of being a leader as best as possible and push the others.”

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team, they looked to challenge in the tougher Liberty Division this year.

Lyndhurst girls’ volleyball head coach Steve Valhalla, entering his sixth season, knew that it was going to be difficult to play this season, considering all the considerations necessary to take precautions for the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.

“Obviously, it was going to be tough to figure it all out for volleyball,” Valhalla said. “You have two teams in the gym with coaches, trainers, scorekeepers, officials all there together in one gym. Honestly, we were trying to figure it all out.

Added Valhalla, “Sure, we’re disappointed about not playing, but it’s all about safety first.”

Valhalla said that the Golden Bears followed the proper protocol established by both the NJSIAA and the Lyndhurst Board of Education about a safe return to play.

“We just completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the plan,” Valhalla said. “I can see why they (the NJSIAA) pushed it back. We’re disappointed to not

Photos by Jim Hague North Arlington head coach Joe Cioffi knows that the new spring volleyball season might run into the regular spring seasons of softball and track, a sport that Cioffi coaches. RIGHT: Belleville head coach John Spina might have a dilemma because he coaches both the Belleville boys’ volleyball team and the girls’ team.

have a full season, but we’re glad that they’re not cancelling it altogether. I’m happy they didn’t cancel it.”

Valhalla is happy, especially since the Golden Bears won 15 matches last season, including a first-round win over Cedar Grove in the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II state tournament. The Golden Bears even hosted the match against Cedar Grove, only the second time ever that Lyndhurst hosted a state tournament match.

“We were going to be pretty good,” Valhalla said. “We had 40 girls sign up to play. We have some good returning players. We have an awesome senior class (seven in all).”

Belleville head coach John Spina is in a tough situation, because he coaches both the girls’ team in the fall and the boys’ team in the spring. In between, Spina is a youth wrestling coach for the Cedar Grove Recreation Department, where his sons participate.

“That’s the only thing that will be difficult, coaching both wrestling and volleyball at the same time,” Spina said. “I will go from one practice to the other. It might be a little strange, but I don’t anticipate it being a problem. It might have been a problem going straight from girls’ volleyball straight to boys’, because it’s a different speed and the intensity of the game is different.”

Spina said that he has “quite a few” volleyball players who also participate in a spring sport, predominately softball.

“As coaches, we have to be flexible with the kids that play those sports,” Spina said. “If someone tells me that softball or track is their key sport, I can’t be a tyrant and demand that they don’t play. There has to be a little bending. As coaches, we have to work together, but I don’t see it being a big problem.”

Rubino said that she also faces a little bit of a dilemma with the multi-sport athletes.

“Two of my starters play sports in the spring,” Rubino said. “I’m hoping that they don’t have to make a decision which sport to play. I told one girl that she has to make the decision on her own.”

Rubino said that she has a Google meet scheduled for this week to discuss what the multi-sport athletes do.

Cioffi feels the same way.

“My biggest concern in moving it to the spring is making the girls choose,” said Cioffi, who has a tough dilemma of his own, as the head outdoor track coach. “We’re not going to do that. We’re going to work together to make sure the girls don’t have to choose one sport. I’ve heard some that want to play four sports. I don’t see that even as an issue.” Cioffi said that the North Arlington volleyball program bought an outdoor net so the volleyball teams could do something safely outdoors.

“We need them to stay as active as possible,” Cioffi said. “When February rolls around, we’ll be ready to go.”

Spina realized that the multi-sport athletes may suffer.

“That was the first thing that came to my mind,” Spina said. “We don’t want to have the girls choose one sport over another. We have a lot of softball players who play volleyball. It might be tough for them, but we have to make accommodations. I’m open to whatever it takes for the kids to enjoy the high school experience.”

Regardless of the heartaches, Spina knows one thing.

“I still think it’s the right move,” Spina said. “I still don’t think we know enough about the virus. That’s my biggest concern.”

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Recalling an oft-forgotten disaster in Manhattan

By James Calautti Special to The Observer

It was 100 years ago when scores of West Hudsonians left the area, headed into Manhattan — and either ended up in hospital or never made it home.

In the fall of 1920, just as America was recovering from the 1918 (that’s 1918 — not 1917) Influenza epidemic, an attack was made on Wall Street, which many saw as the epicenter of the Robber Barons who sat upon vast mountains of wealth and wielded immense power.

The Gilded Age saw an era of rapid economic growth, but not everyone benefited from this expansion. The Gilded Age was also an era of abject poverty and inequality, as millions of immigrants, many from impoverished regions of Europe, poured into the United States and the high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.

An anarchist movement started to grow in influence as it entered the American labor movements, campaigning for diverse social

reforms but also gaining in notoriety reforms but also gaining in notoriety as some of its members turned more and more toward acts of violence.

One of those acts hit very close to home. Here is the story:

Sept. 16, 1920, was a beautiful morning in lower Manhattan. The sky was blue and the air was a crisp 69º. You couldn’t ask for a more glorious day. A horse-drawn cart plodded slowly west down Wall Street. It comes to a stop near Broad Street, outside the J.P. Morgan & Co. building. The clock of Trinity Church

strikes noon. The street is filled with strikes noon. The street is filled with people heading out for a bite to eat, mostly young people who worked as messengers, stenographers, clerks and brokers.

Then the thunder of a terrible explosion pierces the scene. Within seconds, the cart, packed with 100 pounds of TNT and surrounded by 500 pounds of sash weights, erupted into a blinding hail of metal fragments killing 38 people and injuring hundreds.

Many of the wounded were from the area of Kearny, Harrison and Arlington. The Manhattan-Hudson Line (the Tubes), now the PATH system, had been in operation since 1907 with the Harrison Station opening in 1913.

As the smoke cleared, the crowd that had been running in terror now returned to the scene. Many have to crawl over bodies of the dead and wounded. What they saw was a hideous sight. One young man, James Saul, a 17-year-old messenger, commandeered a parked car and transported 30 injured people to an area hospital.

The response was quick and firemen from the FDNY cleared paths for ambulances to get through as police on the scene offered first aid to the wounded. The president of the New York Stock Exchange immediately suspended trading to prevent a panic. Troops who’d been garrisoned at Governor’s Island were dispatched and quickly double-timed up Wall Street with loaded rifles and fixed bayonets.

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