Anthony “Tony” Vitolo scouted the wings of various Connecticut high school fields for forty years, from 1950 until his on-field retirement in 1990. In that time the many schools serviced by the New Haven Football Officials Association saw an official always under control and demanding respect. The same is true for many Eastern colleges as Vitolo was a top-ranked official, working hundreds of games in such places as Yale Bowl, Delaware, Harvard, Holy Cross, Boston College, and the like, working the YaleHarvard game several times. As a member of the EAIFO, Tony earned a reputation as a man of steady ability. For the NHFOA, Vitolo worked hundreds of games and was a regular at the annual Green Bowl, pitting Notre Dame High School against Hamden. He was a president of the NHFOA, serving in 1973, and was a member of the group’s Board of Directors and Better Officiating Committee for several years. He worked three high school championship games in his time, 1978, 1980 and 1982. As a college official he worked Division II playoff games involving the University of New Haven, and was the clock operator for the 1983 Army-Navy game in the Rose Bowl. Over his years as an official and as coach of Hill House Boys Basketball, Vitolo won many awards and honors. He was inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 1991, National High School Coaches Hall of Fame for District 1 that same year, New Haven Register Coach of the Year Award in 1990, Gold Ring Award from the New Haven Boys Club, Connecticut Coach of the Year in 1970, and Distinguished Service Award from the Wooster Square Association in New Haven, he was inducted into the Hillhouse High School Hall of Fame, won the YMCA New Haven Service to Youth Award, Ray Tellier Coach of the Year Award and the New Haven Tap-off Club’s Distinguished Service Award. Sadly Tony passed away in 2009 but his children Mark and Jeanne along with several family members join us today to acknowledge his accomplishments.