by Walter F. Naedele

Philip Buffone started playing Pop Warner football when he was 13. Rocco R. Bene was 14 and on the same South Philadelphia team. "He has been my best friend for 65 years," Buffone said from his home in The Villages, Fla., where Mr. Bene bought a house down the street four years ago.

They played for the former Chadmoore Club, at Chadwick and Moore Streets near 17th Street, "an athletic sports club that changed all our lives," Buffone said. The club lasted for three generations, he said. "Guys started it in the '40s, we picked it up in the '50s, and a younger generation grew it in the '60s."

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