Hall of Athletic Honor
Following in the footsteps of older brother Joe, a 1992 Hall of Athletic Honor inductee, Cervino cemented the family's Gettysburg legacy with an impressive career on both the gridiron and the diamond. A seven-time letterwinner, he was consistently one of the football team's top scoring threats and one of the baseball squad's top hitters.
After seeing his first varsity football action as a sophomore in 1947, Cervino became one of the offense's top weapons the following year. Out of the Bullet backfield, he caught six touchdown passes, ran for three more and compiled nearly 600 yards from scrimmage. Among the highlights from that campaign, he broke a 68-yard run against Western Maryland and caught a 64-yard touchdown pass against Lehigh.
As a senior in 1949, he found the end zone eight more times and helped Hen Bream's squad post a sparkling 7-1-1 record. At the end of that season, he became the first and only Bullet to play in the national Blue-Gray all-star game.
With the baseball program, he jumped immediately into the starting lineup as a freshman in 1947 and was the team's starting left fielder and No. 2 hitter during the next two seasons. He moved behind the plate and earned his fourth letter as a senior in 1950 despite being limited to five appearances due to injury.
A native of Haddon Heights, N.J., he graduated from Gettysburg in 1950 with a degree in business.
