Alan Greenwood

Bill Belichick stunned America last week with a toothy grin as he hugged his son, Steve, after the Patriots shut down the Bills on Buffalo’s final play of a 14-10 win.

There is a heart beating somewhere in that hoodie after all.

It can be surmised from the following that Nashua High football coach Buzz Harvey also was a bit deeper than some folks may have realized.

DEC. 18, 1951 – “High school football coach Charles ‘Buzz’ Harvey stole much of the thunder from the Nashua Rotary Club, honoring the schoolboy gridders at its annual football luncheon meeting yesterday noon, and from the program’s principal speaker, Chief Boston, too when he placed his 1951 11 at the head of his list of “my best teams at Nashua High.’

” ‘We lost our first three games in a row, the first by the worst we’ve ever been beaten by,’ Harvey explained. ‘But this team proved it was stamped with greatness when it came back to win the next six in a row.’ ”

DEC. 19, 1961 – “The Nashua Y Seniors exploded for 40 points in the final period to turn back a stubborn Boston Y Seniors club, 114-105, last night at the Temple St. Gym as the locals ran their win streak to four.

“Player-coach Marty Badoian poured 26 points through the nets to lead the attack. … Dick Piwowarski had 23 and Al Briggs 16. Also hitting double figures were Nick Mandravelis with 24 and Tom Gondek with 13.”

DEC. 20, 1971 – “Mount St. Mary Seminary ran Pinkerton Academy off the basketball court when they picked up their third win of the season, 53-15.

“Marlene Layne tossed in 14 points and Diane Brodeur scored 12 for the winners. Also helping provide a powerful offense was Missy Jordan.”

DEC 21, 1986 – “The Bishop Guertin High School hockey team continued to get outstanding goaltending from senior Brooks Chretien and found its scoring touch in the third period Saturday afternoon to down Concord, 6-1.

“Chretien had a shutout until early in the third period when Concord scored its only goal, pulling them within one of the Cardinals at that point, 2-1.

“Then the BG offense went t work. Tom Glendye made it 3-1 and goals followed from Shawn McDaniel, Mike Canniff and Todd McAfee. BG jumped out to a 2-0 lead late in the first period on goals by Tom Menicci and Dave McKenney.”

DEC. 22, 1991 – “It is becoming increasingly evident that the Nashua High School wrestling team has a better overall product than in recent editions. The latest supporting argument is a 37-36 dual victory over inter-state rival Chelmsford, Mass., in the midst of a three-match sweep of Massachusetts opponents Saturday at the Belanger Gym.

“… Successive pins by Steve O’Connor, Mike Flanagan and Eric Ciano clinched the key Panthers win.”

DEC 23, 2006 – “With the score tied in the game’s final three minutes, the basketball kept returning to Matt Feehan’s hands – and that was a very good thing for Nashua High School South.

” ‘Matt wants the ball at the end, and we want Matt with the ball at the end because he’s our best free-throw shooter and he makes good decisions,’ Panthers coach Nate

Mazerolle said.

“Feehan broke a tie at 46 against Nashua North by feeding a cutting Greg Sullivan with a bounce pass that led to a layup, then Feehan hit all six free throws he attempted in the game’s final 1:18 as the Panthers held off the Titans 55-52 in a crosstown Class L boys basketball game held at North.”

DEC. 24, 2016 – “The Alvirne girls swim team improved to 8-1 following three convincing victories on Thursday evening. The Broncos topped Londonderry (90-80), Merrimack (97-72), and Campbell (136-8) while falling to Dover (97-73).

“The squad got first-place finishes from Haley Summers (100 butterfly), Madison DeLacruz (100 backstroke), and the 200 freestyle relay team (Summers, DeLacruz, Blake Boulia, and Jane Ostberg).”

Contact Alan Greenwood at agreenwood@nashuatelegraph.com.