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Who are the greatest sports figures from The Valley? Paring down a long list to 50 wasn’t easy, and ranking them more difficult still. But here are a few parameters: These names

are judged on not only athletic ability but impact on sports. An extra emphasis on what one has accomplished beyond high school and the attention and name-recognition on more than

a local scale was placed when compiling this list. There will certainly be debates, but we hope you enjoy the list and the stories that go along with the names.

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ust as he was about to celebrate his 62nd birthday, Tony Dorsett proclaimed, “Life is good. I’m doing fine, boss.” Dorsett, born on April 7, 1954, is extra thankful these days because his success story keeps growing, even as he deals with a serious health issue. In November 2013, Dorsett announced he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive degenerative disease of the brain often found in athletes with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Coping with CTE can be frightening and frustrating, but with the help of a strong support team that includes his wife and four children, Dorsett remains upbeat about the chances of enjoying his golden years. “I have good days and bad days,” he said. Good days like those he spends with his first grandchild, 1-year-old Hawke, the son of Dorsett’s son Anthony Dorsett Jr. Good days like the ones with his wife and three daughters, ages 13, 16 and 24. Good days like when he joined former Pitt teammate Matt Cavanaugh as honorary co-captains for the Panthers’ spring game. And Dorsett, a 1973 Hopewell graduate, was ecstatic when he learned he topped the list of The Times’ 50 Greatest Sports Figures, a group that includes Joe

Namath, Mike Ditka and Lauryn Williams. “Man, that is something,” said Dorsett, who lives in Dallas. “That’s saying something ... when you speak of the names you just mentioned, and for yours truly to be No. 1, I am really touched and honored. “I have so much respect for the people you just mentioned. I don’t think it’s a secret that we have some darn good athletes that have come out of the Beaver County area. We have so many great athletes in so many different sports who’ve done well on the national scene. And for me to be No. 1, like I said, that’s really something.” After an all-American high school career, Dorset’s career sky-rocketed at Pitt. He was the first major-college running back to rush for more than 1,000 yards four times. He became the first freshman consensus all-American since 1944 and was the first sophomore named to the Playboy all-America team. In the yearly national rushing rankings, he finished second, 20th, second and first, respectively. His four-year total of 6,082 yards set an NCAA record, although it’s since been broken. In the yearly vote for the Heisman Trophy, Dorsett finished 11th, 13th, fourth and first, respectively. No other player has ranked 13th or better four times. He capped his Pitt career by leading the Panthers to the 1976 national championship. Dorsett went on to play 12 years in the NFL, 11 with the Cowboys and one with the Broncos. The Cowboys’ first-round pick in the 1977 draft, Dorsett still ranks eighth on the NFL’s all-time rushing chart with 12,739 yards. In 1994, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Dorsett was the first player in football history to win the Heisman, a college national championship and a Super Bowl as well as receive Hall of Fame enshrinement in both the college and professional levels. “I’ve been blessed,” he said. “When I was in high school, back when it all started, there was no way to predict that a skinny little kid from Hopewell would be able to do all the things I was able to accomplish. “I’ve been blessed to have so many people around me ... great teammates, great coaches, great teams to play on. They were always behind me, always helping me, always pushing me to be the best player I could be.” A few years after he retired, Dorsett joined former Hopewell teammate Dan Rains and started helping out the physically and mentally handicapped at the McGuire Memorial Home in Daugherty Township. For 21 years, he hosted the Tony Dorsett/McGuire Memorial Celebrity Golf Classic that raised more than $5 million. Dorsett’s work at McGuire prompted Sister Mary Thaddeus, the president and CEP at McGuire, to call him “a saint.” “Those are wonderful people up there at McGuire,” Dorsett said. “I’m so happy they’ve been able to keep the golf outing going after Danny and I stepped down. The McGuire home is such a special place. McGuire will always hold a special place in my heart.” As far as his battle with CTE, Dorsett hopes to stop the disease or at least slow it down. “It can be very frustrating at times, but I’m determined to beat this,” he said. “I’m holding up. ... My wife and daughters are looking after me and taking care of me. I appreciate all the people who have prayed for me.” “If anybody can beat this, it’s Tony,” said Rains, who still sees Dorsett several times a year. “He’s a warrior. Always has been. Always will be.”

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LAURYN WILLIAMS

He was born in Aliquippa in 1947, but Pete Maravich didn’t play high school basketball in Beaver County. While his father, Press Maravich, was coaching Aliquippa when Maravich was born, the family moved when Maravich was 9 years old. Widely considered one of the best and most creative offensive players in history, Maravich played college basketball under Press at LSU. He is NCAA Division I’s all-time leading scorer with 3,667 points, an average of 44.2 points per game, also an NCAA record. Maravich led the country in scoring each of his three seasons and was a three-time all-American. When looked at in historical context, his scoring prowess is even more impressive. Maravich played before the 3-point line and shot clock were introduced, and he only played three seasons because freshmen couldn’t play varsity at the time under NCAA rules. Maravich never played in the NCAA Tournament, but helped rebuild a team that went 3-20 the year before his AP FILE PHOTO arrivel. In 1970, Maravich’s senior season, LSU finished fourth in the NIT. Maravich holds a number of other In 1987, Maravich was inducted NCAA other records, including career into the Naismith Memorial games with more than 50 points (28), Basketball Hall of Fame, becomcareer field goals made (1,387) and ing one of the youngest players career field goal attempts (3,166). ever enshrined. He was also the The Atlanta Hawks selected Maravich youngest player to be inducted third in the 1970 NBA draft. He spent 10 into the NBA Hall of Fame. His years in the NBA, playing four seasons jersey is retired by LSU, the Jazz, with the Hawks, five with New Orleans the Superdome and the New Jazz and splitting his final season beOrleans Hornets, even though he tween the Utah Jazz and Boston. A never played for them. In 1996, he five-time NBA all-star, Maravich was the was named to the NBA 50th league’s scoring champion in 1977, when Anniversary all-time team. he averaged 31.1 points per game. In the Because of a previously underegular season, Maravich scored 50 or tected congenital heart defect, he more points six times and 40 or more died of a heart attack in 1988 points 35 times. He scored a career-high while playing a pickup game. 68 points against the Knicks in 1977. He never won an NBA title, and injuries Lauren Kirschman forced him to give up the game in 1980.

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Like most, Rochester grad Lauryn Williams had thought winning a gold medal in the 400-meter relay in the London Olympics after winning silver eight years earlier, in the 100 at Athens, would have been the biggest highlight of her career. And when she “retired” in 2013 it was, at least in track and field. Then came bobsledding, of all things. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Williams came out of retirement and became the first American woman to medal in both the Summer and Winter Games when she captured silver in the two-woman bobsled. Williams became just one of five athletes, male or female and regardless of country, to accomplish the feat in Olympic history. In the process, she joined Babe Didrikson-Zaharias (track, basketball and golf) on the short list of the greatest two-sport female athletes in U.S. history. That Williams was able to accomplish the feat after taking up bobsledding with just six month of training makes her feat all the more remarkable. “The best part about being written into Olympic history is having AP FILE PHOTO accomplished it while working toward something completely different,” Williams said at the time. “I think the person who tries to make history and succeeds isn’t as appreciative as I am.” Williams’ career at Rochester High School proved she was a tremendous athlete. At 5-foot-3, diminutive for a sprinter, she won the PIAA Class AA championship in the 100 and 200, setting records in both, in 2001. She held the fastest electronically timed 100 in WPIAL history and the second-best 200. Williams took her track career to the University of Miami, where she became an NCAA champion in the 100 with a time of 10.97. Her success at Miami propelled her toward the 2004 Olympics and beyond. Williams’ impressive resume includes the gold in the 100 in the 2005 world championship and gold in the 400 relay at the 2005 and ’07 world championships. Chris Bradford

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MIKE DITKA The world may have had better teeth but it is a much better place since Mike Ditka ditched dentistry for football. When Ditka left Aliquippa for the University of Pittsburgh in 1958, he had hoped to use his education to land a career as a dentist. Turns out Ditka was a pretty good football player, too. Actually, football was just one of three sports at which he starred — he played baseball and basketball at Pitt. But it’s on the gridiron where “Iron Mike” forged his reputation with his tough play and tougher attitude. Ditka led Pitt in receptions in each of his first three seasons and served as the Panthers’ punter. That was good enough for the Chicago Bears to make Ditka the fifth overall pick in the 1961 draft, beginning a love affair between the two that endures to this day. Ditka captured Rookie of the Year honors that year and the first of five straight Pro Bowl selections, and two years later he helped the Bears to the NFL championship. In an era when tight ends were used primarily as blockers only, Ditka helped revolutionize the position and became the first tight end inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988. A half-century after he left Chicago as a player, he still ranks first among all Bears tight ends in yards (4,503), receptions (316) and touchdowns (34). In his later playing days, Ditka bounced from Philadelphia to Dallas, where he won the Super Bowl in 1972, and was bitten by the coaching bug while working closely with Tom Landry. After hanging up his cleats, Ditka moved into an assistant-coaching role, helping the

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Cowboys — with rookie Tony Dorsett — to another Super Bowl in 1977. In 1982 Ditka made a triumphant return to Chicago, this time as the head coach. Ditka spent the next 11 seasons with the Bears, but is best known for the 1985 season, when Chicago went 15-1 with an eclectic roster that included Walter Payton, William Perry, Jim McMahon and Freedom’s Jimbo Covert. The Bears’ 46-10 win over New England in Super Bowl XX made the bombastic and sometimes cantankerous Ditka a household name. He appeared on Saturday Night Live skits (“Da Coach”) and TV commercials. The Super Bowlshuffling Bears were everywhere. Though he failed to reach the heights of 1985 again — he went 121-95 with a 6-6 postseason record with the Bears and New Orleans (1997-99) — Ditka remains one of the most revered figures in the game. “Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal,” Ditka once famously said. Since 2007, Ditka has served as a studio analyst for ESPN. Chris Bradford

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5 JOE NAMATH Before there was Broadway Joe, the most famous guarantee in sports history, fur coats, white cleats or even panty hose, there was Beaver Falls Joe from Ninth Avenue. But there was nothing, and never has been anything, ordinary about this Joe. Namath’s prowess in athletics were remarkable even while growing up on Beaver Falls’ Lower End, where he excelled at football, basketball and baseball. It was said that Namath could dunk before it was fashionable and he was good enough at baseball to be scouted by at least a half dozen major-league teams. But it was at football where he made a name for himself under coach Larry Bruno. Namath led Beaver Falls to the 1960 WPIAL championship with a 9-0 record. That performance was good enough to land the rambunctious Namath a scholarship to Alabama, where he played for the legendary Bear Bryant and led the Crimson Tide to the national championship in 1964 despite a nagging knee injury.

Tournament’s Sweet 16 and six teams to the Final Four (including four at Kentucky) and has won one national championship (2012). “A successful person never loses: They either win or learn,” Calipari once said. Last year Calipari became the 96th coach to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Not bad for someone who began his playing career at North CarolinaWilmington (not Chapel Hill) before transferring to Clarion University. After he served as an assistant at Kansas under Larry Brown and at Pitt under Paul Evans in the 1980s, UMass took a chance on the 29-year-old Calipari in 1989. Coach Cal quickly rebuilt the program, leading the Minutemen to five straight Atlantic 10 titles and a date in the national semifinals just seven years later. Calipari detoured to the NBA’s New Jersey Nets as a head coach in 1997-99 and as an assistant in Philadelphia in 2000 but returned to the college ranks with Memphis in 2001. Calipari has been with Kentucky since 2010 and has posted a remarkable 217-47 record.

JOHN CALIPARI Since entering the basketball world’s conscience more than 25 years ago, John Calipari has been called a number of names — not all of them good — but one word stands out: winner. Whether at Massachusetts, Memphis or Kentucky, the Moon Township native has won. Calipari’s 662 career wins rank 26th all-time and seventh among all active NCAA Division I coaches. Given that Calipari is just 57 years old and entrenched in Lexington, Ky., at one of college basketball’s blue bloods, that number only figures to rise. Calipari has guided 10 teams to the NCAA

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The following spring Namath became the center of a bidding war for his services between the NFL and the rebel American Football League. Buoyed by a three-year, $427,000 contract (a record at the time), Namath opted for the AFL’s New York Jets. From there the Broadway Joe legend was born. He became the first pro QB to throw for 4,000 yards in a season (a 14-game season) in 1967, and the following year he led the Jets to Super Bowl III against the heavily favored Baltimore Colts. Namath famously guaranteed a Jets victory and came through with MVP honors in New York’s stunning 16-7 win in Miami. Namath, hobbled with injuries throughout his career, played 12 seasons for the Jets before finishing with the Los Angeles Rams in 1977. While some argue that a 50 percent completion rate or 220 career interceptions mar Namath’s record, he is that rare athlete whose fame transcends sports. For a time in the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, Namath was perhaps the most famous man in America, and his role in the merger of the NFL and AFL helped make football the most popular sport in the country. “Without winning the championship, life would be different,” Namath told The Times last year. “I don’t doubt that. It had a tremendous influence and has a tremendous influence on me on nearly a daily basis. People all over the country, (People say) ‘Broadway!’ ‘Hey, Joe!’ It’s all I know. That game, that championship has a lot to do with that and who I am and how I’m perceived.”

No man is an island ... except, of course, Darrelle Revis. The Aliquippa native is perhaps the best shutdown cornerback of his generation and one of best the NFL has seen. Revis’ ability to track wide receivers, frustrate them and effectively take half the field away from opponents in an increasingly pass-happy league makes the 30-year-old’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame a mere formality. Then again, we all saw it coming. Revis’ athleticism, not only in football, is the stuff of local legend. He led the Quips basketball team to consecutive WPIAL championships in 2002 and ’03, averaging 25.2 points per game as a senior. In track and field, he led Aliquippa to WPIAL gold in the 400 relay. But it’s at football where Revis really separated himself. In the 2003 PIAA championship game, Revis helped rally the Quips to a 37-27 win over Northern Lehigh. Revis scored an astonishing five touchdowns three different ways in that game (three rushing TDs, a punt return and he retuned a blocked field goal attempt). That’s to say nothing of his 39-yard pass completion, his one reception and one interception. From Aliquippa to Oakland, Revis excelled in three seasons at Pitt. In 2006, he was a candidate for the Thorpe Trophy and Nagurski Award and punctuated his Panthers career with a memorable 73-yard punt return for a TD in a prime-time game against West Virginia. The New York Jets made Revis their first-round pick in 2007 and a star was born on Broadway. In nine NFL seasons, seven of them with the Jets over two stints, Revis has 28 interceptions, ninth most among active players. During his one season with the New England Patriots in 2014, wearing the No. 24 jersey of fellow Quip Ty Law, Revis won his lone Super Bowl championship. Revis returned to New York last season after signing a five-year, $70 million contract, $39 million guaranteed. “You got to know who you are, I think, as a person, I’m a laidback guy,” Revis said. “I’m very simple. It’s simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars, is ludicrous.”

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8 TERRY FRANCONA

Many great athletes are said to have supernatural talents but what New Brighton’s Terry Francona accomplished with a lovable cast of “idiots” almost defies belief. In 2004, Francona helped the Boston Red Sox reverse the curse, ending 86 years of New Englanders’ frustrations. Francona managed the Red Sox to the world championship, their first since 1918 and the days of Babe Ruth. Not only did Boston win the World Series with an emphatic sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, they did so by overcoming a 3-0 series deficit against the archrival New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series. If that weren’t enough, Francona’s Red Sox won the Series again three years later, cementing his place in Boston lore. Francona, whose managing career began with a four-year run with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1997-2000, left Boston in 2011 but resurfaced just a season later in Cleveland, where his father, Tito, had starred for the Indians in the early 1960s. With Cleveland, Francona has enjoyed three straight winning seasons, including 2013 when he won American League Manager of the Year and led the Indians to an improbable postseason appearance. “As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are,” said Francona, who once famously coached Michael Jordan in the Chicago White Sox system. “It’s easy to be up when things go well. When things don’t go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.” As a player, Francona was a first-round draft pick of the Montreal Expos in 1980 and career .274 hitter for five teams. Chris Bradford

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What Sean Gilbert accomplished on the football fields at Aliquippa, Pitt and in the NFL would be enough to land him fairly high on this list. But it’s what Gilbert did and continues to do as an advocate for players rights that lands him in the Top 10. Gilbert, the third overall pick of the Los Angeles Rams in the 1992 NFL Draft, had been a prolific young defensive lineman, but his contract holdout in 1996 with the Washington Redskins made national headlines and was testament to his fortitude that he’s carried with him through his life. “Football is a game. The NFL is a business,” is Gilbert’s motto, and in 2015, he ran an unsuccessful bid to unseat DeMaurice Smith as executive director of the National Football League Players Association. Still, he remains a powerful voice in the inner-circle of his nephew Darrelle Revis of the New York Jets. Gilbert’s contract negotiations can’t obscure his exploits on the field. In high school, Gilbert led Aliquippa to a WPIAL championship and earned Parade all-American, USA Today defensive player of the year honors and the respect of longtime Quips coach Don Yannessa. “Sean used to practice like (Mike) Ditka,” Yannessa told The Times in 2015. “When they were in practice,

10 SEAN GILBERT they were having a good time. He was enjoying himself, he was working hard. He was leading by example. You have a good athlete who has good practices? You know they’re going to have a good Friday night.” At Pitt, Gilbert was a twotime all-American. In 10 pro seasons with four teams (Rams, Redskins, Panthers and Raiders), the 6-foot-5, 318-pound Gilbert recorded 42.5 sacks and 394 tackles. In his second pro season, Gilbert produced 10 sacks for Los Angeles, becoming the youngest player (22) to start in the Pro Bowl. Chris Bradford

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Anyone who witnessed Christa Harmotto Dietzen’s excellence from 2002-05 on the volleyball court at Hopewell High School, where she set a school record with 183 blocks while being named Gatorade Player of the Year and lead the Vikings to unparalleled success, knew that she was destined for greater heights. Harmotto Dietzen did it first on the collegiate level at Penn State, where she helped the Nittany Lions to consecutive national championships in 2007 and ’08 while earning all-Big Ten and all-NCAA Tournament honors. Harmotto Dietzen’s star has shone brightest on the international stage for the U.S. national team. In 2012, she represented the United States at the London Olympics, capturing a silver medal while starting all eight matches with a 1.73 points per set average and converting 51.6 percent of attacks. Harmotto Dietzen likely will compete in this year’s Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Last year, she captained the gold medal-winning U.S. teams at the FIVB World Grand Prix. In 2014, she captained the U.S. to gold at the FIVB World Championship, producing 3.00 points per set with a .511 hitting efficiency after missing most of the season. Harmotto Dietzen also helped the U.S. to gold at the 2011 and 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix. Chris Bradford AP FILE PHOTO

12 CANDY YOUNG For 35 years, Candy Young’s national high school record in the 100 meter hurdles went unmatched. Young set the mark of 12.95 seconds at the 1979 Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Despite improved equipment and training, no one broke it until Dior Hall crossed the line with a mark of 12.92 seconds in 2014. That record is gone, but two world records remain in Young’s name. The Beaver Falls native still holds the world youth records in the 50 meter and 100 meter hurdles, records that were also set in 1979. But Young’s legacy extends beyond the performances she had before her 18th birthday. She won four NCAA indoor championships and two national indoor championships and earned NCAA all-America honors eight times. If not for the United States’ boycott of the 1980 Olympics, Young would have been a member of the U.S. team. While Young never made it to the Olympic stage, she’s still leaving her mark on athletics. From 2012-15, Young served as Delaware State’s first female athletic director. She was one of eight female minority athletic directors of 353 NCAA Division I schools in 2014-15. Young is now the Title IX coordinator at Delaware State, keeping an eye on the school’s compliance and opportunities for female student-athletes. Andrew Chiappazzi

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11 SEAN MILLER In 12 years as a head basketball coach, Sean Miller has never had a losing season. Only twice has he failed to win 20 games: in his first year as the coach at Xavier and in his first year in charge at Arizona. The string of success dates even to his time as Pitt’s point guard. Miller spent five seasons at Pitt, and the only time the Panthers didn’t have a winning record was the season he spent rehabilitat-

ing a foot injury in 1989-90. That winning has followed the Blackhawk grad wherever he’s gone. He was an excellent shooter as a player and earned credit early at Pitt for his leadership abilities. Teammates considered it wholly appropriate that he ended up as a college coach. He could play a bit, too. Miller is still among the all-time leaders in free-throw shooting and 3-point shooting at Pitt. Miller has coached teams to a combined six regular season championships, two conference tournament championships and nine NCAA Tournament appearances. He’s made six Sweet 16s and four trips to the Elite Eight. And the 47-year-old Miller is far from done. He’s won 308 games through 12 seasons, a 25.6-win-per-season pace that could put him among the top five winningest coaches of all time if he coaches another 20 years.

There seems little doubt that Ty Law will have a bust in Canton. The only question is when, not if, the former Aliquippa star will join the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Law’s domination for the Quips was just the beginning of a storied career. He starred at Michigan and joined the Patriots in 1995 as the 23rd overall pick in the NFL Draft. Over the next 15 seasons, Law picked off 53 passes, defended 169 more and totaled 839 tackles. Twice he led the NFL in interceptions. Twice he was the NFL defensive back of the year. He went to five Pro Bowls and won three Super Bowls. Law shut down opposing receivers, willing to be so physical that the NFL eventually limited contact and nicknamed it the “Ty Law rule.” Law saved some of his best performances for the postseason. In Super Bowl XXXVI, Law picked off St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner and returned the interception 47 yards for a touchdown to help New England win 20-17. Two years later, Law intercepted Peyton Manning three times to help the Patriots return to the Super Bowl and beat the Carolina Panthers. Andrew Chiappazzi

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CAROL SEMPLE THOMPSON About the only thing Carol Semple Thompson didn’t do as a golfer was turn pro. Not attracted to the low pay and profile of the LPGA Tour in the 1970s, Semple Thompson was content to remain an amateur golfer. But she was an amateur in name only/ Semple Thompson remains one of the most decorated golfers — male or female — in the sport’s history. The Sewickley native has won more USGA titles than any other golfer save for Bobby Jones, Tiger Woods and Joanne Carner, and she’s played in more USGA Tournaments than anyone else. She is one of five golfers to have won three different USGA individual championships and she’s played in 32 U.S. Women’s Opens, a total matched by only one other. Born into a golfing family — her father was USGA president in the mid-1970s — Semple Thompson has also been named to more Curtis Cup teams and has more Curtis Cup victories than any other golfer. The 2003 winner of the Bob Jones Award, golf’s highest honor, and a 2008 inductee into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Semple Thompson added to her list of accomplishments last spring. Semple Thompson was one of 14 women admitted as the first female members of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the storied course in Scotland. Andrew Chiappazzi

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NORM VAN LIER While Norm Van Lier’s 1965 Midland team might be considered one of the greatest high school basketball teams in the state’s history, his play at St. Francis (Pa.) University and in the NBA is just as impressive. Fifty years after he first suited up for the Red Flash, Van Lier still holds the single-season record for assists (290) at St. Francis. He also ranks 10th all-time in scoring with 1,410 career points and 10th all-time in rebounding average despite his 6-foot-1 stature. A third-round pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 1969 NBA Draft, Van Lier began his career in Cincinnati after the Royals picked him up in a draft-day trade. After a modest rookie season, Van Lier broke out in 1970-71 as he led the NBA in assists with 10.1 per game and averaged 16 points per game. He was traded back to the Bulls midway through the following season and stayed with Chicago for the majority of his final seven seasons in the NBA. Van Lier was named to the all-star team three times, the all-NBA defensive first team three times and the all-NBA defensive second team five times. He spent his post-playing career in broadcasting, and he was an analyst on Chicago Bulls broadcasts from 1992 until his death in 2009.

Only four basketball teams from The Valley have capped an undefeated season with a state basketball championship. The first to do it was James Frank’s Aliquippa squad in 1949. Frank ended up as a second-team all-state selection, but the undefeated season was just one of many firsts in his life. Frank played basketball, baseball and ran track at Lincoln (Mo.) University. Upon graduating, Frank began a career that led to him earning his doctorate and becoming Lincoln’s president. He became the NCAA’s first AfricanAmerican secretary treasurer when he took over the position from 1979-80. He became the NCAA’s first AfricanAmerican president — and first president from outside of Division I — in 1981-82. Frank went on serve as the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s commissioner from 1983-98. While part of the NCAA leadership with the long-range planning committee, Frank helped develop women’s championships for the NCAA and expand the diversity of voices influencing NCAA bylaws. He’s since been recognized with the James Corbett and Gerald R. Ford awards, given to college administrators who show a devotion to intercollegiate athletics. Andrew Chiappazzi

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JIMBO COVERT For a time, Jimbo Covert was one of the best left tackles in the NFL. Any list started with his name alongside that of Bengals star Anthony Munoz. A five-time All-Pro selection, Freedom native Covert began his career at Pitt, where he was an all-American in 1981 and 1982. Taken sixth overall in the 1983 NFL Draft, Covert became a fixture on the Chicago Bears’ offensive line as a rookie. Covert quickly cemented his status as one of the game’s elite linemen. With Walter Payton running behind him, Covert earned recognition as the NFC’s offensive lineman of the year in 1985 and as the NFL offensive lineman of the year in 1986. It was also with Covert at left tackle that the Bears won their only Super Bowl, a 46-10 dismantling of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Covert’s career ended because of injury and he still awaits potential induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he remains one of the more decorated football players from The Valley. He was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 1980s All-Decade team, Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame, WPIAL Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame and had his jersey retired at Pitt. Andrew Chiappazzi

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THE COACHING 10 Mike Bires ranks the top high school coaches of all time from the area. 1. John Miller After getting his start as a boys basketball coach at Riverside (1969-74), Miller turned Blackhawk into a record-setting powerhouse. In the next 29 seasons under Miller, the Cougars went 583-222, including 104-29 in the playoffs. Blackhawk won 16 section titles, including a WPIAL-record 14 straight (1990-03) and once won a WPIAL-record 111 straight games in section play. Blackhawk went 8-5 in WPIAL championship games and 4-1 in state championship games. 2. Don Yannessa One of the most successful and colorful coaches in WPIAL history, Yannessa coached 37 seasons at Aliquippa, Baldwin and Ambridge. He ranks 10th on the WPIAL all-time wins list with a record of 249-137-7. It was at Aliquippa, his alma mater, where he enjoyed the most success with a 142-44-5 record over 17 seasons and a 4-3 mark in WPIAL championship games. But wins and championship only tell part of what Yannessa means to Aliquippa. In 1972, he took over a downtrodden program at a time when racial tensions divided the community. Through football, he united the community and paved the way for the success Aliquippa’s football program still enjoys today. Yannessa hired current Quips coach Mike Zmijanac. 3. Ed Olkowski An assistant on Midland’s 1965 state championship basketball team, Olkowski succeeded Hank Kuzma a year later. Over the next 17 years, he turned the Leopards into a perennial powerhouse. Under Olkowski,

Midland went 322-96 with 10 section championships, seven WPIAL Class AA championships and four state titles. Olkowski ‘s Midland teams of the 1970s won seven championships, including six straight from 1972-77. 4. Bob Palko The WPIAL has crowned football champions since 1914 and, with seven titles, Palko has more than any other coach. In his 21 years at West Allegheny, Palko has led the Indians into the playoffs 18 times with a 188-63 record. From 1999-2001, West Allegheny won three straight WPIAL titles and a state title (2001). 5. Joe Colella Before his death in September 2011, Colella was looking forward to his 49th season as Hopewell’s baseball coach. He thought the 2012 Vikings had a chance to be special, and they did go 18-5 and make it to the WPIAL Class AAA semiﬁnals. In his 48 years as coach, Hopewell was 655-302 with 16 section titles, 29 playoff berths, three WPIAL championships and a state title in 1986. 6. Mike Zmijanac Zmijanac became Aliquippa’s football coach in 1997 and won 200 games faster than any coach in WPIAL history. In his 19 seasons, the Quips are 225-32 with six WPIAL championships and a state title in 2003. In the past six seasons, the Quips have gone 80-6. Zmijanac also coached Aliquippa’s boys basketball team for seven years and led the Quips to three WPIAL championships and a state title. 7. Gene Klein In two stints that totaled 29 seasons (1981-2005 and 2011-14), Klein’s boys soccer teams at Quaker

Valley went 507-139-38, winning seven WPIAL championships and a record six state titles. Klein took the Quakers to the state final 10 times. He was WPIAL coach of the year five times and state coach of the year twice. In 1996, the 23-0 Quakers were ranked No. 1 in the country and Klein was named national coach of the year. 8. Larry Bruno Bruno retired from coaching in January 1979 after 20 seasons as Beaver Falls’ football coach. His teams compiled a 134-52-9 record. His 1960 Tigers, led by quarterback Joe Namath, had a perfect 10-0 record and were awarded the WPIAL title without a playoff because they were the only unbeaten and untied Class AAA team. In 1961, Beaver Falls also had a 10-0 record but didn’t have enough Gardner points to qualify for the playoffs. Bruno’s last team went 11-1 after a loss to Knoch in the WPIAL championship game. Bruno also coached football and basketball at Monaca for eight years. 9. Dori Anderson Oldaker Not many coaches can say they won WPIAL and PIAA girls basketball championships at two schools, but Anderson Oldaker can. She coached Blackhawk, her alma mater, from 1998-2002. In those four seasons, the Cougars went 105-18 with two WPIAL and two state titles. At Mt. Lebanon, where she’s been for 13 years, Anderson Oldaker’s teams have gone 284-77 with three WPIAL and two state titles. 10. Joe Hamilton Most of Hamilton’s 342 career wins, which is second in WPIAL history, came during his 39-year run at Blackhawk, where his teams went 295-155-8 with four WPIAL titles in the 1990s. He also led Blackhawk to five other appearances in WPIAL championship games.

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‘IT WAS JUST THE END THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT TOO WELL.’ The number was astounding, and it’s what caught the attention of Clifton Blue Parker. 191. As in the number of RBIs Ellwood City’s Hack Wilson had in 1930. As in the record that still stands, the one that will never be broken. Parker wanted to know about the man behind that number. And the more he dug, the more interested he became. Parker, now a public information officer at Stanford University, compiled everything he found into a biography, “Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson.”

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During the prime of his career, Wilson — someone Parker described with a laugh as having a body type that was a combination Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger — was considered the National League version of Babe Ruth. Had his career lasted as long as Ruth’s, he might be remembered that way now. “In the beginning, he was very fast,” Parker said. “He came up as a center fielder. He had a lot of athletic talent. Eventually, he became a star for the Cubs, and, like many (players), he led the good life too much. It caught up with him quicker than it did others.” Born in 1900, Wilson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, long after many believe he deserved the honor. His career was impressive, but quickly burned out, and, for years after his death, his accomplishments were forgotten. But they were numerous. For 68 years, he held the National League record for home runs with 56. He played in 1,348 games in 12 seasons, finishing with 1,461 hits and a .307 career batting average. He hit 244 runs, drove in 1,063 runs and surpassed 100 RBIs six times. Defensively, he had a .965 career fielding percentage. But Wilson’s decline was sharp. A lifestyle of drinking

and partying caught up to him. By 1934, at just 34 years old, he was out of baseball. He died broke and alone at age 48. “It wasn’t a well-known name that had this incredible record for RBIs,” Parker said. “He was forgotten mainly due to the fact that he was out of baseball four years after that. ... He had a very good beginning to his career, beginning and middle. It was just the end that didn’t work out too well. “He was rough around the edges. A lot of them were back then. It was not a detriment whatsoever. They weren’t refined. They didn’t go to college. They weren’t afraid to get in a fight. It wasn’t that he was unlikeable. He was the life-of-the-party kind of guy. It was the case of a guy who went downhill pretty quickly physically.” Had Wilson’s drinking not caught up to him, Parker believes he was on the pathway to the kind of long-lasting greatness of players like Lou Gehrig. But even though Wilson’s career was brief, Parker feels he deserves his place in the Hall of Fame, and even more recognition than he gets. The season he set the RBI record, Wilson also had 100 walks, a statistic that stood out to Parker during his research. Wilson, Parker said, was also more of an all-around athlete than for what he’s given credit. And, even though Wilson’s defensive reputation is haunted by two dropped fly balls in the 1929 World Series, he was a solid fielder, especially early in his career. His legacy, though, will always be that single number: 191. “It’s took a lot of effort to do what he did that year,” Parker said. “It was an unusual year. It won’t be broken. You had Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds doing what they were doing, and they weren’t even close.”

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A Quaker Valley graduate and Sewickley native, Chuck Knox enjoyed a long and fruitful coaching career in the NFL thanks to his ability to build struggling franchises into contenders. Knox’s reputation began to grow as an assistant with the New York Jets and Detroit Lions before he took his first head-coaching job with the Los Angeles Rams in 1973. Knox changed the Rams from a stagnant franchise into a team that made the playoffs in five straight years, which included three straight NFC championship game appearances. A conflict with the Rams’ owner led Knox to move on to Buffalo in 1978, where he revived the mediocre Bills’ franchise with an AFC East championship in 1980. Knox moved on to Seattle in 1983, and the Seahawks became his home for the nine years before he finished his career with a three-year stint with Los Angeles again. Knox went 186-147-1 in his 22 years as head coach. While he never made it to the Super Bowl, Knox took teams to four conference championships, won three division titles and won three NFL Coach of the Year awards. He also helped break down a few barriers. Knox was among the first to use a black player at center (Bill Cottrell) and quarterback (James Harris).

20 JOE WALTON For more than 50 years, a college or pro football season started with Joe Walton involved. A receiver and tight end as a player, the Beaver Falls native belongs to a small group of coaches who have won 50 games in the NFL and in NCAA Division I. Walton first helped guide Pitt to the Sugar Bowl (1955) and Gator Bowl (1956) as a player, and he earned a unanimous selection as an all-American following his senior season in 1956. A second-round pick of the Washington Redskins, Walton enjoyed a seven-year NFL career as a pass-catching tight end for the Redskins and Giants. But it was as a coach that he made his biggest impact. Over a 20-year stint as an NFL

assistant, Walton worked with Hall of Famers Fran Tarkenton and Joe Theismann, revived the career of Norm Snead and mentored Richard Todd. His work as an assistant led the Jets to hand over the head-coaching position to him in 1983. Walton went 53-57-1 as head coach, went to the playoffs twice and wrapped his NFL career with a twoyear stint as the Steelers’ offensive coordinator. But that wasn’t his last act as a coach. In 1993, Walton was named as the first football coach at Robert Morris University. He started the program, without a field or locker rooms, from scratch, and turned it into a smallschool powerhouse. In Walton’s 20-year career at RMU, the Colonials won two Division I-AA nonscholarship national championships and six Northeast Conference titles. He retired following the 2013 season and now serves as a special advisor to the athletic director at RMU. Andrew Chiappazzi

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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy left an indelible mark on American history. On a smaller level, it also had a significant effect on the fortunes of the 1963 Pitt football team. Were it not for Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, Pitt would have played Penn State as scheduled on Nov. 23. Had Pitt beaten Penn State 22-21, like it did when the game was rescheduled two weeks later, the Panthers would have been 8-1 and shoo-ins for a major bowl as the season headed into its final week.

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Instead, with bowl committees fearful of a late-season loss, they were bypassed by the major bowls and left to stand as perhaps the best college football team to not make a bowl game. Through it all, the Panthers had a measured response. Full of future doctors, lawyers and dentists, Pitt exuded the same calm attitude to the odd situation that coach and Ambridge native John Michelosen displayed every day. “He was just an even-keeled guy,” quarterback Fred Mazurek said. “He didn’t yell and scream. He was focused, and that helped.” Michelosen was in his ninth year at Pitt in 1963. He had played under Moe Rubenstein at Ambridge and won back-to-back national championships at Pitt under Jock Sutherland. He had been an NFL assistant for more than a decade and later the Steelers coach for three years. Michelosen returned to his alma mater in 1955 and immediately made an impact, guiding the Panthers to the 1955 Sugar Bowl and 1956 Gator Bowl. But the 1963 Pitt squad was not only his most accomplished team, but one that reflected his presence on the sideline. “John was a very modest leader and a very good person,” team captain and end Al Grigaliunas said. “He was a very calm person who knew what he was doing. He had a group of assistant coaches who were focused on making sure we knew what we were doing.” With Mazurek at quarterback, a couple of all-Americans in halfback, Paul Martha and tackle Ernie Borghetti, and plenty of experience, Pitt rolled through most of its schedule. Pitt went 9-1, with the only blemish a 24-12 loss to Roger Staubach-led Navy. “Maybe that one loss helped us in the sense that we had a renewed focus,” Mazurek said. “Now, with that 1963 team,

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PETE ZAREMBA Only a handful from the area have been on Olympic teams, fewer still have won medals. Pete Zaremba was the first on both accounts. The Aliquippa native won a bronze medal in the hammer throw in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Zaremba studied and competed at New York University, where he earned track and field all-American honors in 1932 and 1933. The Olympic year turned out to be a successful one for Zaremba, who set a career best in the hammer throw at 51.38 meters at the 1932 IC4A championships prior to the Olympics. Zaremba also won the 1933 IC4A championship and was considered one of the elite competitors in the hammer throw for much of the 1930s. Zaremba’s medal-winning throw of 50.33 meters came in the first of six rounds. His next two attempts fell short of the initial mark, and his last three throws resulted in fouls. He managed to hang on for the medal and make history.

26 G. HERBERT MCCRACKEN THE SEWICKLEY GRAD NEEDED A WAY TO KEEP AN OPPONENT FROM STEALING SIGNALS. SO, HE CAME UP WITH THE HUDDLE. STORY BY JIM EQUELS JR. PHOTO FROM THE TIMES FILE

If necessity is the mother of invention, then G. Herbert McCracken found that to be true as Lafayette’s football coach in 1924. McCracken, a Sewickley graduate, was preparing his team for a game against Penn when he realized the Quakers had scouted Lafayette’s five previous games and memorized its offensive signals. McCracken’s remedy for the problem? The huddle, which has now been a standard part of football for close to 100 years. Before the game, McCracken instructed the officials to expect a different, but legal, formation before each Lafayette offensive snap. To that point, it was standard practice for teams to go to the line of scrimmage and call out “signals” for the next play. Against Penn, McCracken had his players begin each down not at the line of scrimmage, but

rather a few yards back. The team would gather together and share the play in secret before stepping to the line and running the play. The quarterback would then use ambiguous signals to begin the play. According to an article in the Allentown Morning Call shortly after his death, McCracken wrote of the genesis of his invention in an essay now stored in Lafayette’s archives. “Until the dawn’s early light,” McCracken said. “I was at my desk that night, designing a huddle that not only allowed for security in the calling of plays, but also a system for breaking out of the huddle into play formation fast and with precision.” Despite the subterfuge, Penn won the game, 7-3. But the huddle was born. Teams around the country began using the huddle after hearing of McCracken’s strategy, and today it is a mainstay of the game.

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23 DICK ALLEN Pitchers dominated Major League Baseball in the late 1960s, to the point where 1968 was considered “The Year of the Pitcher” and the league had to make rule changes to increase offense. None of that seemed to phase Wampum’s Dick Allen. A slugging corner infielder, Allen had six seasons with 30-plus home runs in his 15-year career. They all happened from 1966 to 1974, right when the pitchers were supposed to have the upper hand. Signed by the Phillies in 1960, Allen earned a brief appearance in Philadelphia in 1963 before joining the club full-time in 1964. At 22 years old, Allen finished seventh in MVP voting and won the NL Rookie of the Year award after smacking 29 home runs, drove in 91 runs and hit .318. Allen also led the majors in triples and runs that year. Allen made seven career All-Star Game appearances and won the MVP award in 1972 during his first season with the Chicago White Sox. Allen hit a career-high 37 home runs and drove in a career-best 113 runs during that season. He finished his career with 351 home runs, 1,119 RBIs, a lifetime average of .292 and a lifetime slugging percentage of .534. Decades after his retirement, Allen is still being hotly debated for induction into Cooperstown. While he wasn’t elected on any traditional ballot, he received 11 of 16 votes on the 2015 Golden Era Committee ballot, one shy of the number needed to be voted in. He’ll next be considered in 2017 for the Class of 2018. Andrew Chiappazzi AP FILE PHOTO

A Pitt graduate, McCracken coached college football for 16 years, first at Allegheny from 1921-24 and then at Lafayette from 1924-35, compiling a career record of 75-48-7. In 1926, Lafayette won the national championship. While at Lafayette, McCracken heavily relied on lateral passes, which helped the Leopards defeat several large-school opponents. McCracken also co-founded Scholastic Magazines, Inc. in 1922 and founded Scholastic Coach Magazine in 1931. In 1935, he gave up coaching to devote himself full time to publishing. He retired, but remained chairman of the executive committee of Scholastic Magazines, Inc. In 1972, McCracken was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He has also been enshrined in the Lafayette, Allegheny and Quaker Valley Athletic Halls of Fame. McCracken died in 1995 at the age of 95.

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One of the most decorated high school athletes from the area, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough helped Hopewell win WPIAL gold medals in basketball and volleyball and earned a WPIAL bronze in the triple jump. But with all of her time focused on basketball at the University of Maryland, she has elevated her name into one of the elite players in the country. Walker-Kimbrough became a significant contributor as a freshman at Maryland, helping take the Terrapins to the Final Four. She moved into a starting role as a sophomore and averaged 13.3 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game as Maryland once again advanced to the Final Four. She was named to the all-Big Ten first team and was the Spokane Regional Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament. Walker-Kimbrough took her biggest leap forward as a junior, leading Maryland with 19.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Walker-Kimbrough led the nation in 3-point field goal percentage and threatened the Division I record of 57.1 percent (she hit on 54.5 percent of her threes). She was named an Associated Press third-team all-American. Maryland isn’t the only team to get Walker-Kimbrough in uniform. She participated in the 2015 Pan-American Games, where Team USA took silver.

ARCHIE MILLER Longtime Blackhawk coach John Miller knew that his youngest son would eventually be a coach. But as he told The Times in 2011, “... I wondered if I’d be around to see it. But he landed it at 32. Unbelievable.” Ryan “Archie” Miller, the younger brother of former Pitt star and current Arizona coach Sean Miller, became Dayton’s coach in April 2011. He has compiled a 115-55 record, made three straight NCAA Tournament appearances, led the 11th-seeded Flyers on a Cinderella run to the Elite Eight in 2014 and established himself as one of the most respected young coaches in college basketball. A 1997 graduate of Blackhawk, Archie Miller averaged 7.7 points per game at North Carolina State and helped the Wolfpack make the NCAA Tournament in 2002. Miller still ranks among NC State’s all-time leaders in free-throw percentage, 3-point field goal percentage and total 3-pointers. After graduating in 2002, he followed his father and brother into coaching. Miller spent time learning from a couple of decorated coaches. First, he joined Herb Sendek’s staff at NC State in 2004 and then followed the Pittsburgh native to Arizona State for the 2006-07 season. Miller moved back east to join Thad Maatta’s staff at Ohio State from 2007-09 before moving back to Arizona when Sean Miller took over as the Wildcats’ head coach in 2009. Considered an excellent recruiter and tactician, Miller was a finalist for the 2015 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award. Andrew Chiappazzi

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27 JIM IVICEK A two-time state champion and three-time WPIAL champion gymnast, Rochester native Jim Ivicek was also a witness to history. Tutored at the University of New Mexico under former Olympian Rusty Mitchell, Ivicek helped the Lobos win three Western Athletic Conference titles and garnered the attention of the United States national team. Ivicek competed for a spot on the 1972 Summer Olympics roster and finished second in the TIMES FILE all-around competition PHOTO at the Olympic trials. But his overall seventh-place finish wasn’t enough for a guaranteed spot, and he was named as an alternate. Ivicek traveled to Munich but never had a chance to compete. It was a visit that ended up being both thrilling and terrifying, as the initial joy of the Olympic experience was washed out by the horror of the Munich massacre. Eleven Israeli Olympians were taken hostage and eventually killed by a Palestinian terror group. Following the Olympics, Ivicek transferred to Southern Illinois to earn his degree. An arm injury led to a 13th-place finish at the 1976 Olympic trials and ultimately ended his career.

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BRAD DAVIS Of all the NBA players to emerge from the area, few enjoyed an NBA career that lasted as long as Brad Davis’ did. The Monaca graduate played 15 seasons in the NBA, including his last 12 with the Dallas Mavericks. Born in Rochester, Davis played under coach Dave Nichol at Monaca and then under coach Lefty Driesell at Maryland. A gifted passer, Davis started for the Terps as a freshman, and Driessel even moved John Lucas, the eventual No. 1 pick in the 1976 NBA Draft, to forward to keep both players on the floor. Davis scored 1,136 points in three seasons at Maryland and still is among program leaders in multiple categories. Taken by the Lakers as the 15th pick in the 1977 NBA Draft, Davis struggled in his first three seasons in the NBA. He played just 78 games for three teams before landing in Dallas for the start of the 1980-81 season. Over the next 12 seasons, Davis was a solid contributor for the Mavericks. He averaged 8.6 points and 4.9 assists per game before retiring after the 1991-92 season. He’s now Dallas’ player development coach and radio color analyst. AP FILE PHOTO Andrew Chiappazzi

29 BABE PARILLI HE WAS A HEISMAN FINALIST UNDER BEAR BRYANT IN COLLEGE AND WON A SUPER BOWL AS JOE NAMATH’S BACKUP, BUT HIS FONDEST MEMORIES COME FROM HIS HOMETOWN. STORY BY LAUREN KIRSCHMAN PHOTO FROM THE TIMES FILE

ito “Babe” Parilli isn’t short on memories from his football career. He was an allAmerican at Kentucky, finishing fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1950 and third in 1951. After the 1950 season, he led the Wildcats to a victory in the Sugar Bowl and followed that up with a Cotton Bowl win the next season. Parilli was drafted fourth in the 1952 NFL Draft and spent 17 years playing professionally between the NFL and AFL. In his final two seasons, he played for the Jets and backed up Joe Namath, winning a Super Bowl. But for everything that happened for Parilli after he graduated from Rochester, some of his fondest memories are still from his time playing high school football with the Rams. “These were probably the ones that stood out more than all these other games I played in because we went undefeated in high school, and football was really big back then,” Parilli said while visiting Rochester in November to receive a Super Bowl 50 celebratory golden football. “I think the most we ever had was 16,000 (people) at one game. The Ambridge game is the one that stands out in my mind. We won it in the last minute and we went undefeated.” Both Beaver County natives’, careers were intertwined long before they ever shared a field with the Jets. Parilli taught Namath’s high school coach the system he learned from Bear Bryant at Kentucky. Later, Bryant coached at Alabama, where Namath went to college. The two remain close to this day, and they reunited in New York to celebrate the Super Bowl-winning Jets team shortly after Parilli’s ceremony at Rochester. Parilli played a few snaps in that Super Bowl after Namath injured his thumb. “I was the first pick of the Green Bay Packers,” Parilli said of his NFL career. “We had the worst team in the NFL, but we did OK. To make one of those teams, to make it as an NFL quarterback, there were guys that were really good players, but there was no room for them. “For me, making it my first year and playing my first year, as a rookie, that was an accomplishment.” But it wasn’t an unexpected one. Parilli, who now lives in Tampa, Fla., learned from Bryant not to accept failure, so not getting drafted was never an option. Getting cut wasn’t either. That’s one of the major lessons Parilli took away from his time learning under Bryant: Success. Every day during the off-season, the two would work together. They would play makeshift games. Bryant would call out plays and Parilli was expected to know them immediately. He learned, Parilli said, every detail Bryant could possibly give him. And that paid off for the rest of Parilli’s career. “You work at something until you get it right,” he said. “Repetition is what you learn from (Bryant). I was a fullback in high school, and (Kentucky) made a quarterback out of me. He was the best teacher I ever had.”

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THE SCHOLASTIC 10 Mike Bires ranks the top all-around high school athletes of all time from the area.

and triple jump as a senior. She scored 2,427 career points in basketball.

1. Dwight Collins During his high

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school career from 1976-80, Collins became the ﬁrst Beaver Falls athlete to earn four letters in three sports: football, basketball and track. He excelled in each of them. As a senior running back/ defensive back in football, he earned ﬁrst-team all-state honors and was named to at least one all-American squad. In basketball, he was a 6-foot-3 forward who helped Beaver Falls win WPIAL championships in 1979 and ‘80. In track, he won the state title in the 200 meters as a senior.

2. Darrelle Revis Before becoming an NFL star, Revis was a standout at Aliquippa. He helped the Quips win WPIAL and PIAA football championships in 2003. In a 32-27 win over Northern Lehigh in the state championship, he scored all ﬁve touchdowns in different ways. He was then the leading scorer on Aliquippa’s WPIAL championship basketball team (22.8 ppg). In track, he earned a gold medal in the WPIAL track championships and a bronze in the state meet by running a leg on the 400-meter relay team.

3. Shatori Walker-Kimbrough Walker-Kimbrough could have accepted NCAA Division I scholarship offers in basketball, volleyball or track. She was part of two WPIAL championship teams at Hopewell: volleyball in 2011 and basketball in 2012. She also won three gold medals in track, winning the long jump as a sophomore and the long jump

school record as part of South Side’s 400-meter relay team. But it was football where McCune received the most acclaim, especially in his senior year when he was the quarterback for a 15-0 team that won WPIAL and PIAA Class A championships. As a senior, McCune accounted for 2,243 passing and rushing yards, threw and ran for 16 touchdowns each and intercepted seven passes as a free safety. He was named the Pennsylvania Small School Player of the Year.

Midland graduate, Alston was a standout in football, basketball and baseball. He received a football scholarship to Penn State and, as a 6-foot, 200-pound halfback, led the Nittany Lions’ 1941 freshmen team to ﬁve straight wins. But the following summer he died from complications following a tonsillectomy. He’s recognized as Penn State’s ﬁrst African-American football player.

5. Becky Novacek A 2007 Hopewell grad, Novacek was a three-time all-state selection in volleyball, a two-time all-state selection in basketball and a four-time state medalist in the high jump. A 6-foot-1 forward, she helped Hopewell win state basketball titles in 2006 and ‘07. She ﬁnished her career with seven WPIAL gold medals and four PIAA gold medals: two in basketball, one in volleyball and one in track. Novacek, who went to Dayton on a volleyball scholarship, still holds the Beaver County high jump record (5 feet, 8 inches).

6. Mike Ditka A three-year starter at Aliquippa from 1954-56, Ditka earned a football scholarship to Pitt. But he also played basketball as a bruising power forward and baseball as an outﬁelder for the Quips.

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7. Norm Van Lier Van Lier was the point guard on Midland’s unbeaten state championship basketball team in 1965. He was also a talented football and baseball player. Van Lier played quarterback and defensive back and as a senior and was named the quarterback on the Beaver County all-star team. In a 12-0 win over Monaca that year, Van Lier threw a touchdown pass, scored on a 93-yard punt return and intercepted three passes.

Valley graduate, Bemis may have won more medals than any athlete in WPIAL history. Competing in gymnastics, diving and track, she has 43 medals overall, 25 WPIAL and 18 PIAA. Of those 43, 17 are gold. As a senior, Bemis won WPIAL and PIAA Class AA track gold medals in the 100 hurdles and long jump.

10. Jeff Beltz Beltz was a three-sport standout at Freedom (1987-91). In football, he set the school record for receptions (40) as a senior and helped the Bulldogs clinch their ﬁrst playoff appearance in more than a decade. He also played free safety and punted. He played just one year of basketball, but averaged nearly 25 points per game. In baseball, he was an all-star caliber player at several positions.

8. Sean McCune A 2000 South Side graduate, McCune excelled in football, basketball and track for the Rams. He was an honorable mention all-star in basketball and won the Class AA 300-meter hurdles at the WPIAL track championships. He also helped set a

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SIMMIE HILL There was a chance that high school teammates Simmie Hill and Norm Van Lier could have been reunited in the NBA. Alas, it was not meant to be. The two starred for Midland in the 1960s, taking the team to the state title in 1965. Whereas Van Lier was the shifty pass-first point guard, Hill was a 6-foot-6 forward. Their careers diverged upon graduation. Hill first landed at Wichita State University, where he performed well for the freshman team before transferring to Cameron Junior College. Hill was a junior college allAmerican in his lone season at Cameron, and that performance led him to West Texas State University. Hill helped take West Texas State to the NIT in 1969 as a senior and earned recognition as a Sporting News all-American. Upon graduation, Hill was taken by the Chicago Bulls in the second round of the 1969 NBA Draft. Had Hill stayed with Chicago, he and Van Lier might have reunited when Van Lier joined the Bulls in 1971. Instead, Hill went to the ABA, where he played for five teams from 1969-74. Hill averaged 9.7 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game during his ABA career and led the league in 3-point percentage (.391) in 1972-73. He finished out his basketball career by playing six more seasons in Europe.

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Ken Loeffler pulled interesting double duty while at La Salle University. The Beaver Falls native led the Explorers to the 1952 NIT men’s basketball title and the 1954 NCAA championship while serving as a law professor at the school. In six seasons, he amassed a 144-29 record. Loeffler, the first person from the area inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame, also coached at Geneva, Yale (he attended law school there and once TIMES FILE PHOTO roomed with future president Gerald Ford) and Texas A&M as well as for St. Louis of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the NBA. After coaching at Texas A&M he returned to academia, finishing his career as a law professor at Monmouth.

Tom Davies, who played football at Aliquippa, starred for four years at Pitt from 1918-21. As a freshman, he led the team in rushing, receiving and passing and was named all-American as the Panthers won the national championship. Against Georgia Tech that year, Davies accounted for five touchdowns: one on a 50-yard run, two on punt returns (50 and 60 yards) and two passing. He was also named an all-American in 1920 and had a memorable game against the University of Pennsylvania. Considered by many to be his best game, he threw for one touchdown, returned an interception 60 yards for a score, ran 80 yards for another and returned a kickoff 90 yards for a fourth. He averaged 150 yards per game in 31 games over his four years. He finished with 3,931 all-purpose yards and 181 points at Pitt and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. While at Pitt, Davis played for Pop Warner and he continued his association with legendary coaches, starting his coaching career at Penn a year after graduation under John Heisman. The following year, he got his first head-coaching job at Geneva, where he went 6-2-1 in 1923. He later coached at Allegheny, Rochester, Carnegie Tech (Carnegie Mellon), Scranton and Western Reserve (Case Western Reserve).

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35 MIKE LUCCI Ambridge grad Mike Lucci didn’t start playing football until his senior year, but that delay didn’t hurt his career. After a year at Ambridge, Lucci went to the University of Pittsburgh for a year before transferring to Tennessee. He was named an all-American after the 1961 season and played in the College All-Star Game. Lucci was picked in the fifth round of the 1961 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns but his best years were with the Detroit Lions from 1965-73. His coach, former Pitt great Joe Schmitt, said Lucci was the best linebacker in the NFL. While playing with Detroit, he was all-NFL in 1969 and named to the Pro Bowl in 1971. Known best for his pass coverage, Lucci intercepted 21 passes with Detroit, returning four for touchdowns. Lucci was named as the Lions’ most valuable player for three straight years (1969-71). While a player, he appeared as himself in the 1968 movie “Paper Lion.” After his playing career, he was a color analyst on Lions radio for three years.

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Beaver graduate Judy Hult didn’t start her gymnastics career until she was 15 years old. Six years later, she was an Olympian. Hult not only earned a spot on the six-member 1956 U.S. Olympic team, she was the Americans’ top hope for a medal at the Melbourne Games. But she suffered back and wrist injuries during the practice before the competition. She battled through the injury to compete, drawing praise from teammates and competitors. But she did not medal, and the Americans finished ninth in the team all-around.

Before Joe Namath made Beaver Falls famous in Super Bowl III, Jim Mutscheller made it known in the 1958 NFL Championship. Mutscheller went to Notre Dame and played under legendary coach Frank Leahy. He played on the 1949 national championship team and was team captain as a senior. After graduation and a twoyear stint in the U.S. Marines, Mutscheller played eight years for the Baltimore Colts, catching 220 passes for 3,685 yards and 40 touchdowns. Mutscheller will be remembered as the second-most famous end on that team because Hall of Famer Raymond Berry was the other end. Berry, though, was quoted that he never saw Mutscheller drop a pass. He almost got his moment in the spotlight, though. In the 1958 NFL Championship, called “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” he caught a Johnny Unitas pass that took the ball to the 1-yard line. His block set up Alan Ameche’s game-winning 1-yard run.

Her skills were recognized, though, when she received the John T. Taylor Memorial Award as western Pennsylvania’s premier female amateur athlete. She continued as a gymnastics coach after her career as a competitor ended.

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Herb Carper once held the title of the fastest man in the world, but injuries kept him from proving that at the Olympic level. At Rochester, Carper won the WPIAL championship in the 100-yard dash and finished third in the state. While attending Pitt, Carper was the IC4A 100-yard dash champion in 1956 with a time of 9.4 seconds, but a pulled muscle kept him from qualifying for that year’s Olympics. The injury didn’t stop his track career, though. On Feb. 28, 1959, he broke the world indoor record in the 60-yard dash with a time of 6.0 seconds. He achieved that mark twice in the same day: in the preliminaries and in the final, when he edged West Germany’s Armin Nary and France’s Jocelyn Delacour, respectively. He tied his mark twice later in the year. Carper was a favorite for the 1960 U.S. Olympic team, but a blood clot behind a pulled muscle kept him from qualifying. Bill Allmann

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40 DICK DEVENZIO Born in Coraopolis, Dick DeVenzio made his impression as the point guard on the 1966-67 Ambridge boys basketball team. Coached by his dad, Chuck DeVenzio, and with future North Carolina and ABA star Dennis Wuycik and future Purdue star Frank Kaufman up front, the Bridgers were undefeated state champs at 27-0. DeVenzio was named a first-team Parade all-American. DeVenzio, despite his 5-foot-9 stature, went onto to Duke University, where he was an academic all-American and was named all-Atlantic Coast PHOTO COURTESY BEAVER COUNTY SPORTS HALL OF FAME Conference in 1969. After college, he played and coached basketball in Europe and the Caribbean until 1980, but made his biggest post-playing impact as an author, writing five basketball books about point guard play and founding The Point Guard College. He also attacked the basketball establishment. He wrote seven books in total, including “Rip-Off U: The Annual Theft and Exploitation of Major College Revenue Producing Student-Athletes.” He continued to be an advocate for student-athletes and wrote a syndicated column entitled “Inside Stuff” that was carried by 32 newspapers.

43 BOB DAVIE After starting at tight end for three years at Youngstown State, Moon graduate Bob Davie went into coaching football and started as a graduate assistant at Pitt. In 1979, Davie became the youngest full-time coach in the Pac-10 at Arizona and progressed through the ranks as an assistant. He coached at Pitt, Tulane and Texas A&M before landing as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator in 1994. After Lou Holtz’s retirement after the 1996 season, Davie became the first assistant promoted to head coach at Notre Dame in 42 years. He remained at the helm for five years, taking the Fighting Irish to the BCS championship game in 2000. Davie was fired after the 2001 season after recording a 35-25 record. He spent the next 10 seasons as an ESPN analyst but returned to coaching in 2012 with New Mexico. He led the Lobos to the New Mexico Bowl in 2015, their first bowl appearance in eight years.

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JACK CLARK Jack Clark didn’t spend a lot of time in New Brighton. He was born there in 1955, but his family moved to California in 1957. Clark played in the major leagues from 1975 to 1992, mostly with the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals. He earned his nickname “Jack the Ripper” as a right-handed power hitter, hitting 340 home runs in his career. A four-time all-star, it was his threerun home run in Game 6 of the 1985 National League Championship Series that clinched the pennant for the Cardinals. Playing mostly right field and first base, he did spend some time in the American League as a designated hitter, but was vocal in his dislike of the position. After his retirement, Clark had a stint as talk show host in St. Louis, but the outspoken Clark got into a well-publicized spat with Cardinals superstar Andrew Pujols that ended with a Clark apology. Bill Allmann

DON HENNON

HUBE WAGNER

Standing just 5-foot-8 didn’t hinder Don Hennon from becoming one of the top scorers in college basketball. After leading Wampum High School to a 31-0 record and the state championship in 1955, Hennon led Pitt to the NCAA Tournament in 1957 and 1958 and was named all-American in 1958 and 1959. In 1957, he scored a then-school-record 45 points in an 87-84 double-overtime win over Duke. He finished his three-year career at Pitt (freshmen weren’t eligible then) with 1,841 points, a school record at the time. Hennon, who finished his high school career as the WPIAL’s all-time leading scorer (2,376), was drafted by Cincinnati of the NBA but chose to enter medical school at Pitt and became a surgeon. He was inducted into the Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970.

Before he was a prominent surgeon and a member of the University of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees, Hube Wagner was a standout on the football field at Pitt. A native of Monaca, Wagner played at Pitt from 1910-13. Primarily an end, Wagner played every position but quarterback for the Panthers. He played as a freshman on Pitt’s 1910 team that was unbeaten, untied and unscored upon. He was recognized as an all-American in 1912 and 1913 and elected captain in 1913. In 1973, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. After graduation, Wagner went on to medical school and received equal acclaim as Dr. J. Huber Wagner. Bill Allmann

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BILL KOMAN

A childhood injury cost Bill Koman 50 percent of the mobility in his left leg, but it didn’t cost him a career as a professional athlete. He didn’t play football until his junior year at Hopewell, but the 1952 graduate went on to a standout career at North Carolina and then 12 years in the NFL. Koman, a linebacker, was drafted by the Baltimore Colts and played two years for the Philadelphia Eagles before finding a home with the Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals. With the Cardinals, he missed only one game and played 120 consecutive games during one stretch. He played in the Pro Bowl in 1962 and 1964 before retiring after the 1967 season. He was named Pro Football Father of the Year in 1966 and went into business in St. Louis after his retirement from football. The fieldhouse at Hopewell High School’s Tony Dorsett Stadium is named for Koman.

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BONUS GRE ATEST LIST

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

THE FUTURE 10 Blackhawk graduate was the nation’s top two-way player, Baseball America’s freshman of the year and ﬁrst-team all-American and was all-ACC at two positions (pitcher, ﬁrst team and utility player, second team). He also played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. And that was just the 2015 season. He’ll play for Team USA again this summer.

The Times looks at 10 names who could work their way onto the Top 50 Greatest list in the future. Robert Foster football He was one of the top wide receiver prospects in the country (a ﬁve-star recruit) when he played at Central Valley, but a shoulder injury kept him from showcasing his talent at Alabama for much of the 2015 season. Foster started for the ﬁrst time in college in the season opener against Wisconsin and had four catches for 50 yards and a touchdown, but was hurt two games later. Despite the injury, Foster, a redshirt sophomore, is expected to start for the Crimson Tide in the fall and is on track to be an NFL draft pick.

Chassidy Omogrosso / basketball As part of a talented freshman class, the Blackhawk graduate helped Duquesne reach its ﬁrst NCAA Tournament and win a game. Omogrosso averaged 8.5 points in 22 minutes per game (18 starts) in 2015-16 and was named to the Atlantic 10 all-rookie team. She scored in double ﬁgures 15 times this past season, including 18 against Pitt.

Stephen Johns / hockey The Wampum native made his NHL debut with the Stars in March and may have found a home on the Dallas blueline. The physical, stay-at-home defenseman may never impress with his offensive numbers, but he’s solid in his own end. He registered a plus-30 rating in 51 games for the Stars’ farm team in Rockford (AHL) this season. He has international experience with the U.S. World Junior and under-18 teams before he was drafted by the Blackhawks. He went to Dallas in a deal that involved Patrick Sharp and current Penguin defenseman Trevor Daley.

Dan Radakovich / administration He may be the oldest member of the Future 10 at 58, but his athletic career is still on an upward trajectory. The Center graduate is the athletic

Brendan McKay / baseball In only his second season at Louisville, McKay has quite a resume. The

director at Clemson after serving in the same post at Georgia Tech. The former football player at Indiana (Pa.) was a member of the College Football Playoff committee and on an NCAA rules advisory committee.

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Robert Morris grad, is a Big 12 football ofﬁcial and served as referee at the Rose Bowl in January. He also was part of the crew at ArenaBowl XXVII in the Arena Football League.

Maverick Rowan / basketball The former Lincoln Park standout and son of former St. John’s star Ron Rowan averaged 12.9 points per game as a freshman at NC State. An academic all-ACC pick, Rowan hit six 3-pointers in a win over Wake Forest in the ACC tournament in March. He was a consensus top 100 recruit after transferring to Cardinal Gibbons (Fla.) and reclassifying into the class of 2015.

Josh Turnley / soccer The Beaver graduate was drafted in the third round of the MLS draft by the L.A. Galaxy. Turnley, a defender and secondteam all-Big East performer at Georgetown, plays with the L.A. Galaxy II, the Galaxy’s USL developmental team.

Lindsay Vrooman / swimming The Ambridge native could make her way into the big list as early as this summer. Vrooman, the former U.S. National and World University Games gold medalist will attempt to qualify for Team USA for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this summer. His best events have historically been the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle.

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STEPHEN JOHNS Reggie Smith / ofﬁciating The New Brighton graduate is making a name for himself by ofﬁciating games rather than playing them. Smith, a

A consensus freshman all-American at Pitt last season, the Central Valley grad impressed on offense and defense with the Panthers. The ACC’s defensive rookie of the year set a freshman record at Pitt with 109 tackles and also rushed for 122 yards and scored two touchdowns. He was the top prospect in Pennsylvania in 2014 according to Rivals and a consensus top 175 prospect overall.

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46 JOHN BURKETT

At Beaver High School, Burkett paired with fellow righthander Doug Piatt to help the Bobcats win the 1983 WPIAL championship. A month later, Burkett was selected in the sixth round of the Major League Baseball draft by the San Francisco Giants. Burkett made his major league debut on Sept. 15, 1987, and was in the majors to stay a couple of years later. Burkett’s best year was in 1993. He was an all-star, leading the National League in wins with 22. With the Atlanta Braves in 2001, he was again named to the All-Star Game. He was the opening-day starter for his team six times: three times for the Giants and once each for the Braves, Marlins and Rangers. He retired in 2003 after a 12-9 record with the Red Sox and finished with 166 career victories. Burkett also has found success in bowling. He finished 15th in the 2015 Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open.

Jan Bolland played softball and was an all-state volleyball player at New Brighton before she was on the crew team at the University of New Hampshire. She found international acclaim when her athletic career switched gears to cycling. Bolland became one of the most successful American racers of the 1990s. She was a member of the U.S. National Road Team (1990-94) and U.S. National Mountain Bike Team (1993-96), earning a gold medal at the 1992 UCI Road World Championships in the team time AP FILE PHOTO trial and a silver medal in the team time trial in 1993. She also won championships in New Jersey in 1990, the 1991 50K Team Time Trial for the Pan American Games; the 1992 World Champion 50K Team Time Trial in Benidorm, Spain; the 1993 U.S. National 50K Team Time Trial Championships; the 1995 U.S. National Cyclo-Cross Championships; and the 1995 Colorado State Cyclo-Cross Championships. Bill Allmann

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47 DANTE CALABRIA After a basketball career at Blackhawk that saw him score a then-WPIAL record 2,552 points and win three WPIAL titles and one PIAA crown, Dante Calabria continued his winning ways at North Carolina. He was in the rotation as a freshman on the Tar Heels’ national championship team in 1993. He returned to the Final Four as a senior and also won ACC regular season and tournament championships as North Carolina compiled a 111-28 record in his four years. Calabria played in 135 games and is one of the few at North Carolina to score 1,000 points and have 400 rebounds, 300 assists and 100 steals. He set a single-game school record with eight 3-pointers and left Chapel Hill in the school’s career top 10 in 3-pointers made and 3-point percentage. After North Carolina, he played professionally in Europe for 15 years. An all-star in various leagues, Calabria also played for the Italian National Team in European and international competition. After retiring as a player, Calabria turned to coaching. He is currently an assistant under former Villanova coach Rollie Massimino at the NAIA’s Keiser University. Bill Allmann

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48 SEAN SHAPERT

Sean Shapert only had the chance to play high school soccer for three years and still set a national career record for goals with 213. Moon didn’t add soccer as a varsity sport until 1982 when Shapert was a sophomore. He burst on the scene quickly, though, scoring 65 goals as a sophomore before setting a national single-season record for goals with 88 as a junior in 1983. That record stood for 19 years. He concluded his high school career with 60 more goals as a senior. A knee injury before his freshman year at Indiana University changed the course of his career. He still had a successful college career despite five knee surgeries, setting single season and career records in assists for the Hoosiers. He scored the lone goal in the 1988 NCAA championship game in the Hoosiers’ 1-0 win Howard. Bill Allmann

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50 PRESS MARAVICH Petar “Press” Maravich eventually became best known as the father of basketball scoring legend “Pistol” Pete Maravich, but before that, the Aliquippa native was a top-flight college coach. After playing basketball at Aliquippa, he went to Davis & Elkins College, where his 1,635 career points were at one time a national record. After playing professionally in Detroit, Youngstown and Pittsburgh, Press coached at West Virginia Wesleyan and Davis & Elkins. Despite winning 37 games in two seasons at Davis & Elkins, he returned to Aliquippa High School for two seasons. From Aliquippa, he went to Baldwin for two seasons and then jumped to the Atlantic Coast Conference, coaching Clemson for six years and North Carolina State for two. In his two years at NC State, he was 38-13. He moved to the SEC, coaching LSU for six years, including the time when he coached his son. Pete scored 3,667 points in three years playing for his dad. He ended his coaching career with three years at Appalachian State. Bill Allmann

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