When top senior football players took the field one last time as high school student-athletes in the inaugural Shaun O’Hara Foundation Senior Bowl Wednesday night, the game was replete with dedications and references to a pair of Hillsborough greats.

Shaun O’Hara is, of course, one of them. O’Hara starred for Rick Mantz at Hillsborough, then walked on to Rutgers, eventually playing for the New York Giants and winning a Super Bowl with Rich Seubert, who was one of the head coaches in the game.

Seubert led Team Otto, which won 21-7 over Team Rocky. The names were meant to honor two Hillsborough legends.

Otto Gsell was a longtime football coach at Hillsborough, becoming an assistant in 1987 and serving as defensive coordinator on state title teams in 1973 and 1980. He was head coach from 19998 to 1993, then moved back into an assistant role and head freshman coach under Mantz. He passed away in 2000, and was inducted into the Hillsborough Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

Rocky Forte was inducted into the Hall in 2011. He was Athletic Director from 1978-2003, also serving as head wrestling coach for several years, but mainly oversaw the Raiders’ successful growth from a Group 2 athletic program in 1978 into a Group 4 by 2003, as the population in town exploded over several decades. He passed away in 2009.

At halftime of the Senior Bowl, Shaun O’Hara welcomed the families along with James Ruh, Executive Director of the O’Hara Foundation and a Hillsborough resident himself, whose sons James and Hudson played in the game.

Click below to watch the halftime ceremony honoring Otto Gsell and Rocky Forte at the Shaun O’Hara Foundation Senior Bowl: