Post-Football: What Happened To Those Players?

The 1964 Football Dodgers were undefeated and became state champions because the players developed their inherent talents through hard work, team loyalty, and personal growth. Their parents, teachers, and coaches encouraged them to build character, an old-fashioned term that signifies reliability, courage, strength, persistence, and intelligent, sportsmanlike competition.  In essence, they became better men by being a part of the Madison football program during those years.  The training provided by Dodger football, along with the incredible support from parents, teachers, neighbors, ministers, and a talented group of fellow students, helped these boys grow into the men they ultimately became.

This is evident in the post-graduation lives they led:

(in alphabetical order)

Ralph Artigliere

Ralph Artigliere graduated from West Point in 1969, where he played football and commissioned as an Armor officer. After serving in Germany, he volunteered for Flight School and deployed to Vietnam in 1972 as a helicopter pilot and Operations Officer in an Air Cavalry unit during the Easter Offensive. He left the Army as a Captain in 1974 and worked as a project manager at Ryder Systems before earning his law degree from the University of Florida in 1977. Ralph practiced civil trial law for 24 years, then served as a Circuit Judge in Florida’s Tenth Judicial Circuit, presiding over civil, criminal, and family cases. He became a judicial educator and legal author, continuing to teach and write after retiring from the bench in 2008.

Carl Caskey

Just before our HS graduation, I was accepted to Rutgers where I was going to play baseball; but during that period, I received an acceptance letter to Georgia Institute of Technology for a scholarship to the Naval ROTC Program. While at Georgia Tech, I married Linda Schlichting and had a baby daughter Kimberley. I was commissioned an Ensign on Christmas Eve 1969. I immediately attended USN Supply School in Athens GA (where I met Skipper Ditman from Madison HS who was an All American Center at the Naval Academy. My first tour was in USS Ticonderoga where we were the recovery ship for Apollo 16/ 17. On 16, I spent more than a few hours with the Astronauts (Captain Young: GA Tech), Colonel Charlie Duke, and LCDR Ken Mattingly); then to Naval Air Station Miramar as a Supply officer to Top Gun, next as a Department Head on a Destroyer during the fall of Saigon, and finally on a Congressionally mandated team inspecting all the ships of the Navy throughout the world. After the USN, I worked for Government Contractors and made it a plan to see the world. Today I live near my daughters and grandchildren (and Ex Wife) in Sunny Sandy Eggo, CA. Still going to the gym several times per week.

Lou Corea

Upon High School graduation, he joined the United States Army and proudly served from 1965 to 1968. He worked for the United States Postal Service in Berkeley Heights until retirement.

Anthony (“Buddy”) DeBiasse

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Robert DeSombre

Robert served in the armed forces from August 1967 until August 1973 and was a veteran of the Vietnam War.

Rusty Engle

Enlisted in the US Army in April 1966. After completing basic training at Fort Dix, he received advanced training at Fort Benning, GA, prior to being sent overseas to Vietnam in November 1966. He attained the rank of Specialist 4 (SP4).
Assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Rusty was a radioman whose duty was to relay messages from the battlefield to a command post behind the lines.
On June 26, 1967, the Rev. John W. Parks of the Madison Presbyterian Church and an Army Sergeant arrived at the Engle’s home to advise them that Rusty had been killed in action near the Cambodian border on June 22nd.
The Russell Engle Memorial Fund was established and an annual award is given to a senior boy “who embodies cooperation, good sportsmanship and team spirit” as shown by Rusty during his sports career at Madison High.

Rhys Foulkes

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Robert Gero

A bricklayer with Masons Union Local 4, formerly Local 21 of Morristown and a Veteran of the United States Navy.

Rick Hadley

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Spencer Hoppin

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Doug Hale

Doug excelled at football and baseball while at Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., where at one point he led the nation in home runs, and was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. After college graduation, he was employed by Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas, and remained there for 42 years.

Dick Herbst

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Peter Jilleba

Peter played under Coach Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama and was selected to play for the South the 1970 Senior Bowl. In 1998, Peter was awarded by the Morris County Chapter of the National Football Foundation, the Morris County High School Football Legend Award, and in 2000, he was recognized by the Star-Ledger newspaper as one of the all-time top 25 athletes from New Jersey. Later in life, Peter developed a love for the outdoors and a passion for trekking and mountain climbing, especially in the Asian Himalayan Mountains. Peter traveled and hiked in more than 30 countries during his lifetime. After college, Peter had a business career in the energy industry and as a home improvement entrepreneur

Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy was an electrician with the IBEW Local #102 for many years. Jimmy enjoyed traveling abroad, especially to Africa and Dubai. He valued experiencing other cultures.

Jack Mac Donald

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John Mantone

Known by all his friends as Moose. He was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War. Honorably discharged, he worked as a mail carrier for the Madison Post Office for 39 years. John also owned and operated a landscaping and lawn mower repair business.

Paul Natale

Graduated from Hofstra University and embarked upon a career in the office equipment industry. Moved to the Tampa Bay Area and collaborated with local entrepreneurs on two ventures. Still working full time.

Bill Notte

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Carl Peterson

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Carl Pierce

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Professor Pierce served as assistant dean from 1972 until 1974. He was a fellow in law and the humanities at Harvard University for a year and a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis for a year. His academic interests relate to corporate law and the regulation of the legal profession.
Professor Pierce received the Carden Award for Outstanding Institutional Service in 1993 and 1999. In 1997 he was awarded the Bass Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar and the Tennessee Bar Association President’s Award for Outstanding Service, and was again awarded the Bass Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar in 2002.
Professor Pierce has served as chairperson of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Contract Appeals and as the reporter for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee for Ethics and Professional Responsibility. After serving as interim director of UT’s Howard Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy for a year, he was named director and has since retired.

Bob Stehlgens

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Tom Sweeney

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Wayne Willis

After completing his undergraduate, MBA and JD studies at Yale, Wayne co-founded several startup entrepreneurial companies. He made small, early investments in others, mostly in technology services industries in Silicon Valley. After stopping active management in 2004, he continued advising several companies and serving on select boards until his retirement in 2025.