Tom Brookshier

Tom Brookshier, according to his friends, knew how to tackle. Whether on the football field or as a television and radio personality, his impact was equally immense and intense. He was an all-pro on the last Eagles team to win an NFL championship, in 1960, and was part of CBS's top NFL broadcast team during the 1970s along with his close friend Pat Summerall. In the late 1980s he hired Angelo Cataldi, launching the 610 WIP sports-talk format that remains in place today. Mr. Brookshier, 78, died Friday of cancer at Lankenau Hospital.

A memorial service for former Eagles star and longtime broadcaster Tom Brookshier has been postponed from tomorrow until Monday because of the forecast of snow. The family will receive guests after 12:30 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore, at Montgomery Avenue and Mill Creek Road. There will be a 2 o'clock memorial service. Brookshier, who played cornerback on the 1960 NFL champion Eagles, died last Friday. He was 78.

Tomorrow's scheduled memorial service for former Eagles star and broadcaster Tom Brookshier has been postponed because of the threat of snow. According to the Chadwick and McKinney Funeral Home, the family will receive guests after 12:30 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore, to be followed by a 2 p.m. memorial service. The church is at Montgomery Avenue and Mill Creek Road. Brookshier, 78, died last Friday after a battle with cancer. He had been an all-pro defensive back on the Eagles' last NFL championship team in 1960 and went on to a long career as a television and radio sports broadcaster.

Stu Ingraham of Overbrook, Russ Davis of Cape May National and Frank Dobbs of Blue Bell shared the lead yesterday with 66s after one round of the Philadelphia PGA Golf Championships at the Conestoga Country Club in Lancaster. The second round will take place today and the final round tomorrow. AMATEURS Robin McCool of Saucon Valley finished first in the 36-hole qualifying round for the Pennsylvania Middle Amateur Golf Championships (30 years of age and older) with a 6-under-par 69-69-138 at the Country Club of York.

CAN IT be? Can it possibly be 50 years? They ask themselves: Where did the years go? All of them are in their 70s and 80s now, yet the boy in them remains anchored in 1960, the year they did something that no Eagles team has done since: They won the National Football League championship. Fifty years ago: JFK had just been elected president. That was how long ago it was. Linebacker Maxie Baughan was a rookie on that 1960 squad and expected it to happen again. But it never did, which he says just goes to show you how hard it is to even win one. The Eagles came close under Dick Vermeil in 1980.

I've got some unsolicited advice for the owners of WIP-AM, Philadelphia's all-sports radio station: Bring back Bill Campbell. Bring back Tom Brookshier. Bring back some sanity. For months the jeerleaders who man WIP's microphones and their knuckle- headed callers have engaged in round-the-clock trashing of the Eagles, with special venom reserved for their coach Rich Kotite and their owner Norman Braman. I've never met either Kotite or Braman but I've had it up to here with relentless attacks on them.

The Eagles have formalized their plans to memorialize Reggie White, a player many fans will never forget. Eagles chairman Jeffrey Lurie announced yesterday that the team will retire the number of the former defensive end in a ceremony on Dec. 5, when it hosts the Seattle Seahawks in a Monday night game. Whether the ceremony will be before the game or at halftime has not been determined. White died of a respiratory ailment on Dec. 26 at the age of 43. "The last conversation I had with Reggie, I said to him, 'I really want to do it [retire his number]

Tom Brookshier, a 23-year veteran at CBS Sports, will be joining KYW-TV as a year-round commentator. The Daily News has learned that Brookshier, who has done preseason games and Monday commentaries on the Eagles for KYW, now will expand his analysis to other sports. When Ted Shaker, the executive producer for CBS Sports, was asked last month about Brookshier's future with the network, he said, "It's Tom's call. " Shaker is on vacation this week. A CBS spokesman said yesterday that the network has not been unhappy with Brookshier's work.

Former Eagles defensive back Tom Brookshier has decided to step down as the co-host of all-sports-talk WIP radio's morning drive-time show effective at the end of the year. And while yesterday's official on-air announcement might have caught listeners by surprise, it was not news to the station's management team. "This decision was made last January," said Jack Williams, WIP's president and general manager. "We asked him to stay on for one more year because the show was really cooking, to help us move forward.

Betsy Brookshier, a corporate-education consultant and political science doctoral candidate, formally entered the Republican race for the 149th Legislative District House seat yesterday. "I want to make it easier for small businesses to start up in Pennsylvania, particularly for women and minorities," said Brookshier, daughter of Tom Brookshier, a sports announcer and a former player for the Eagles. At 28, she is the youngest of the four announced Republican candidates. "I am a fan of limited government and individual liberty," she said in a telephone interview.

THE EAGLES have not won a championship in 50 years. Fifty! Five-ohhhh. Half a century. Four owners, 11 coaches, a covey of quarterbacks, three ball yards, two Super Bowl appearances and a mascot that looks like a partridge in a pear tree. Yogi Berra once said, "When you come to a fork in the road . . . take it!" Is that what the Eagles have done for the last 50 years, come to a fork in the road, picked it up and jabbed it into an eye? Or simply zigged right when they should have zagged left.

CAN IT be? Can it possibly be 50 years? They ask themselves: Where did the years go? All of them are in their 70s and 80s now, yet the boy in them remains anchored in 1960, the year they did something that no Eagles team has done since: They won the National Football League championship. Fifty years ago: JFK had just been elected president. That was how long ago it was. Linebacker Maxie Baughan was a rookie on that 1960 squad and expected it to happen again. But it never did, which he says just goes to show you how hard it is to even win one. The Eagles came close under Dick Vermeil in 1980.

The first time Pat Summerall met Tom Brookshier, at Franklin Field, it was a violent greeting. "He just about split my face mask away from my helmet," Summerall said yesterday, eulogizing his friend and longtime broadcast partner at a memorial service at the Ardmore Presbyterian Church. Brookshier, 78, died Jan. 29 after a battle with cancer. At a memorial service filled with local and national sports luminaries, eulogies were given for the former Eagles star defensive back by his friends Summerall, Dick Vermeil, Jack Whitaker, and Billy Cunningham, as well as Brookshier's daughter Betsy.

A memorial service for former Eagles star and longtime broadcaster Tom Brookshier has been postponed from tomorrow until Monday because of the forecast of snow. The family will receive guests after 12:30 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore, at Montgomery Avenue and Mill Creek Road. There will be a 2 o'clock memorial service. Brookshier, who played cornerback on the 1960 NFL champion Eagles, died last Friday. He was 78.

Tomorrow's scheduled memorial service for former Eagles star and broadcaster Tom Brookshier has been postponed because of the threat of snow. According to the Chadwick and McKinney Funeral Home, the family will receive guests after 12:30 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore, to be followed by a 2 p.m. memorial service. The church is at Montgomery Avenue and Mill Creek Road. Brookshier, 78, died last Friday after a battle with cancer. He had been an all-pro defensive back on the Eagles' last NFL championship team in 1960 and went on to a long career as a television and radio sports broadcaster.

Tom Brookshier, according to his friends, knew how to tackle. Whether on the football field or as a television and radio personality, his impact was equally immense and intense. He was an all-pro on the last Eagles team to win an NFL championship, in 1960, and was part of CBS's top NFL broadcast team during the 1970s along with his close friend Pat Summerall. In the late 1980s he hired Angelo Cataldi, launching the 610 WIP sports-talk format that remains in place today. Mr. Brookshier, 78, died Friday of cancer at Lankenau Hospital.

On his knees, right near the end, Brian Dawkins threw up his arms and cried out, "Hallelujah!" Those two fumbles that Dawkins forced Sunday did more than help destroy the Dallas Cowboys and propel the Eagles into the postseason. The hits added a late chapter of Dawkins lore when a depressing alternate ending appeared to be in the offing. At his lowest point of the season and maybe his 13-year career, in September after an embarrassing day against those same Cowboys, Dawkins defiantly had announced that he wasn't limping out quietly.

The 1960 Eagles head this year's inductees into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. The second team to be honored by the nonprofit organization (the first was the 1954 La Salle basketball squad), the 1960 Eagles won the franchise's last NFL championship. Of the 15 individual members of the Hall's third class, nine are native Philadelphians: Pro Football Hall of Famer Herb Adderley, Olympic gold medalist Don Bragg, three-time baseball MVP Roy Campanella, former Phillies outfielder Del Ennis, "Mr. October" Reggie Jackson, billiards great Willie Mosconi, coaching sage Jack Ramsay, amateur golfer Helen Sigel Wilson, and women's sports pioneer Anne Townsend.

The Eagles have formalized their plans to memorialize Reggie White, a player many fans will never forget. Eagles chairman Jeffrey Lurie announced yesterday that the team will retire the number of the former defensive end in a ceremony on Dec. 5, when it hosts the Seattle Seahawks in a Monday night game. Whether the ceremony will be before the game or at halftime has not been determined. White died of a respiratory ailment on Dec. 26 at the age of 43. "The last conversation I had with Reggie, I said to him, 'I really want to do it [retire his number]

Nick Skorich, who took over as head coach of the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles in 1961 and came within a roughing-the-punter penalty of leading the team back to the title game, died Saturday at Presbyterian Hospital, apparently of an infection after recent heart-valve surgery. He was 83 and lived in Mansfield Township, Burlington County. "He was one of the best," recalled former Eagles cornerback Tom Brookshier, who suffered a career-ending broken leg during Mr. Skorich's first season as head coach.