Hall of Athletic Honor
He won 58 straight high school wrestling matches, was State Runner- up twice and twice was New Jersey State Champion before entering Gettysburg. As an undergraduate at Gettysburg, he was captain of the wrestling team and won four letters. He took on the best in the East and defeated them, including DiBenedetto of Navy. When the curtain fell on his spectacular career, he had won 63 matches and lost one. He was four-time Middle Atlantic Conference champion and twice named the conference's most valuable wrestler, something no other Gettysburg wrestler could claim through the 20th century.
He played a little baseball, but wrestling was his favorite.
He began a coaching career in 1956 which lasted over 28 years. During that time he became the winningest scholastic wrestling coach in the country with over 400 victories and a combination of 19 district and state championships.
