Bob Pittello

  • December 15, 2023
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INDUCTEE Back then “grass” was still something you mowed or fed your horses, Bob Pittello was a certifiable addict. Not the dangerous kind. He was a football “junkie” who for 25 years drove 60 miles a day to coach at Susquehanna University. This was after working all day. When the Crusaders were at home Saturday, […]

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DR. JOSEPH F. GRECO

  • December 14, 2023
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INDUCTEE Either through destiny or fate a 1940 press release from Susquehanna University described their defensive end as being “tough, speedy, and having remarkable diagnostic ability as a defensive player.” Today he is recognized as a true  diagnostician. Dr. Greco began his athletic career when only a freshman, participating in both football and basketball. He became a […]

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STEVE FILIPOWICZ

  • December 14, 2023
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INDUCTEE Sleepy Jim Cowley described him as being a natural, the most natural player he ever has on Rose Hill (Fordham). At 5’8”, 198lbs., his body was like a block and his legs were heavy, yet he was uncommonly swift afoot. He could be described more vividly as having the general contour of a small […]

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Len Eshmont

  • December 14, 2023
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INDUCTEE Leonard Charles Eshmont was born in Mount Carmel in 1918, a son of Charles Eshmont and Rose Shulski Bergal Eshmont. He was reared form infancy in Atlas, attended Our Mother of Consolation parochial school and was graduated from Mount Carmel Township High School in 1937. Len began his football carrier as a freshman with […]

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Gary Diminick

  • December 14, 2023
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INDUCTEE He’s a lightning bolt in a football uniform. Catching him is like trying to grab dandelions swishing in a stiff breeze. One minute he’s going in one direction and almost faster than the eye can follow he’s off in another. Such descriptions were often used in describing the athletic abilities of Gary Diminick, Gary […]

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Stanley Coveleskie

  • December 14, 2023
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INDUCTEE “It all started because I like to throw rocks at old tin cans instead of working in the mines. Practice at what I considered a game of my boyhood days paid off in success. I could hit the tin can blindfolded.” Stanley Coveleskie worked 12 hours a day in the mines at Luke Fidler. […]

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ROBERT ZAVARICK

  • December 14, 2023
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MALE SCHOLAR ATHLETE Robert Zavarick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zavarick, Locust Gap, Pennsylvania. He is a 1978 graduate of Mount Carmel Area High School and is presently a freshman at the University of Maryland. In addition to graduating in the upper fifth of his class, Bob was recognized as being one […]

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