PETER  P. ANDREOZZI (Athlete, Class of 2010)

 

In 1955 Warren High School’s football squad beat both Barrington and Colt Memorial of Bristol for the first time since 1936.  Sophomore linebacker Pete “Chooch” Andreozzi sealed a come-from-behind 19-12 win over the Eagles with a late-game interception.

 

 

 

The following season the Redskins again beat both of our neighbors and captured the Class C Football Co-Championship.  In recognition of his efforts, Pete achieved All Class C honors as both a linebacker and offensive tackle.

And in his senior season of 1957, Pete starred once again, as his Warren High eleven downed Colt Memorial and Barrington for the third consecutive season. 

In the process, he was named first team All Class C linebacker.  Although he was an offensive tackle most of the year, he filled in on offense where needed, leading the team in pass receptions and averaging 9.6 yards a carry.

(He wasn’t named All State, but he should have been.  Providence Journal-Bulletin Schoolboy Sports Editor Dick Reynolds later acknowledged that he had misread his handwritten notes and, as a result, failed to include Pete on that prestigious squad.)

 

 

 

Having been the Captain of the Warren High football eleven and Co-Captain of its basketball five in his senior year, Pete was named the school’s Journal-Bulletin Honor Roll nominee of 1958.

 

 

 

Coach Frank Howard then granted him a football scholarship at Clemson College (later University) of the Atlantic Coast Conference; he thus became the only Warren resident to ever play in one of the nation’s six leading conferences that now make up the Bowl Championship Series leadership.  In Pete’s sophomore year Clemson was the first team to play in two different bowl games in the same year – the 1959 Sugar Bowl versus LSU and the 1959 Blue Bonnet Bowl against Texas Christian.

Following college, Pete was the line coach for the first three Pat Abbruzzi-coached elevens that defeated Bristol High School, with the last one of these Redskins squads capturing the 1964 Class C Eastern Championship.  (During his three playing seasons and his three coaching years, Warren High School’s football teams won eleven and lost one versus Bristol and the school’s other major rival, Barrington.)

 

Having also served as Warren High’s head wrestling coach in two of the sport’s first official seasons, he then spent the next thirty-five years as a teacher, principal, and superintendent in the Seekonk, Massachusetts public school system.  During nine of those years he coached football, with one of his teams capturing a league championship.  In 1995 he was elected to the Seekonk Athletic Hall of Fame.

 

 

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives