INDUCTEE Tony was an outstanding three sport athlete at Mt. Carmel High School, and later played football professionally with the ANTHRACITE MAROONS. He became a sports trainer in 1948 at Coal Township High School. He moved to Mt. Carmel in 1952 and remains there presently. He also spent a short period of time as athletic trainer at Susquehanna University. He has been active as both trainer and Head Coach in Little League Football in Mt. Carmel since 1962. While Coaching basketball at St. Peters his teams won 2 Diocesan Championships. As head coach of the Mt. Carmel Jets he produced 4 undefeated teams and 2 Schuylkill County Championships. Many of Mt Carmel’s outstanding high school and college players got their start under the tutelage of Tony Moella. He is also known in local track circles and has been the chief starter at Mt. Carmel High School Track Meets for 40 years.

INDUCTEE Ralph was born in Lavelle, PA October 4, 1928. As a young boy he attended school at Butler Township, where he was active on the basketball and gymnastic teams under Coach Paul Wolfgang. During these years he was also a member of the school orchestra. After graduation Ralph enlisted in the U.S. Army and after auditioning became a member of the 371st Army band of the Fort Leavenworth Post, where he also was a member of the basketball team. Ralph coached local Little League teams for four years and still supports sports through sponsorship and in advertising. Ralph belongs to the following fraternal and church organizations Masonic Lodge 255, where he served as Past Master, Reading Shrine, Bloomsburg Consistory, Shamokin Elks Lodge, Shamokin Aero Club, The Lincoln Club, Gowen City Church consistory, and Gowen City Cemetery Association, where he presently serves as president. In addition Ralph was a charter member of Ed Romance Sport Hall of Fame serving as Secretary-Treasurer for the past two years.

INDUCTEE Ed started as an assistant coach for the Maurer’s Dairy team in 1952 and became its head coach 5 years later. During that period his teams won 5 Division Championships and 3 overall League Titles. His teams won the Championship Trophy in the Shamokin-Coal Township Post Season Little League Tournament both times they were invited. Maurer’s Dairy has given up sponsorship of the team at the end of this season. Next year’s team will be sponsored by the Mt. Carmel Area Rescue Squad. But that’s about all that will be different. Ed Taylor will be back, starting his 30th year of coaching kids sports. A real record, more impressive even, than his gaudy won-lost record.

INDUCTEE Graduated in 1949 from Mt. Carmel High School. An all-around athlete, Bones won 11 of a possible 12 letters as a High School star. He was 1948 Player of the Year in the Anthracite Area, and was also a second team All-State selection that year. One of Mt. Carmel’s most highly sought athletes ever, he received more than 50 college scholarship offers. At the University of Pennsylvania he was the second leading scorer on the Frosh basketball team, topped only by Ernie Beck who later became an All American and Pro Star. Bones was a 3-year letterman in football at Penn. During his career there he was All Ivy, All East and Honorable Mention All American. He held Penn’s single season passing record until 1963, eclipsing the previous records of All American Red Bagnell. In 1951 he ranked third nationally in punting average. In 1952 he was selected National Player of the Week, after a game in which he threw 4 touchdown passes against Dartmouth. That same year Bones compiled more than 1300 yards total offense, and helped Penn rank fourth nationally in passing statistics. Despite injuries that cut short his career and limited his plying considerably, Glenn Adams was a leader in what was probably the U of P’s finest hour.

INDUCTEE Dick Kasner has been well-known in baseball in this area since he played in high school. He became one of the top hitters in hardball and was equally impressive on defense, earning a try-out with the Philadelphia Phillies. Later moving to softball, he played and managed teams around the area for 14 years on various teams. In recent years Dick has been involved in helping the youth of our area get the chance to play organized sports. He had been a Teener League Coach for 13 years, playing a very important role in the builsing of the Glenn L. Parks Memorial Field. Retiring from that league in 1980, he now coaches the American Legion team which he formed this past year. Dick was also one of the founders of the Shamokin-Coal Township Little League. He has been president for the past 9 years and has headed the building of 3 field, one with lights, which were paid for by the league itself. The organization now includes 25 teams, a Pony League, 80 coaches and over 400 boys and girls. Dick also helped start the Shamokin Area Youth Basketball League, which has been going for 5 years and includes about 200 boys. He also had a hand in the formation of the Lower Anthracite Girl’s Softball League. Dick has been a tribute to this area and is well respected by both youth and adults for his contributions to the many athletic programs in our region.

INDUCTEE Clem started boxing at the age of 17. During his carrer he had46 bouts, winning 41 losing three and drawing 2. At one time he was the Jr. Heavyweight Champion of the Anthracite Region. He became a policeman in 1934, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant in the Mt. Carmel Police Department. He was honored a number of times for police work with citations from the F.B.I. and was a qualified fingerprint expert. He was President of the Anthracite Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police. He had 24 cartoon ideas published by the popular Jimmy Hatlo’s “They’ll Do It Every Time,” and contributed 14 Ching Chow Cartoons. Clem was an outstanding boxer during the period when boxing flowered in the Coal Regions.

INDUCTEE Pet was an outstanding sandlot athlete, competing in baseball, football and boxing. As a professional boxer he won 22 of 24 bouts; and in one fight was credited with a 28-second knockout. He also coached boxing at Kulpmont High School in the early 40’s. He was an outstanding shortstop for the Mt. Carmel Jednota Society Team which competed on a statewide basis with teams from as far away as Allentown, Pottsville, Reading and Scranton. He once batted against Grover Cleveland Alexander in an exhibition game against the touring House of David team. He is one of perhaps a half-dozen men who were instrumental in organizing Little League Baseball in Mt. Carmel. Later, he coached the Moose and Our Lady’s Teams to outstanding records. He was also an umpire for a number of years; and is probably the leading authority on baseball’s rules in this area. For years many taproom arguments were settled with a phone call to Pet’s home. As a football player he was a speedy, pass-catching end. No less an authority than Gerry Breslin once remarked that Pet had the “best hands he had ever seen.”

INDUCTEE Ed Stavenski was a star football player at Kulpmont High School under the late Mike Terry. He earned a football scholarship to Duquesne University at a time when scholarships were given only after a tryout. After graduation from Duquesne, he returned to Kulpmont to teach. Along with coaching football, he was asked to coach basketball and baseball, a job that took all his time. He did all this partly because it was not his custom to say “no” but mostly because of his dedication both to youth and sports. If you ever played on any of his teams there was no limit to what he would do to show his appreciation for your participation and he didn’t stop if money was involved – he spent lavishly on his boys. After the jointure with Mount Carmel, he continued to teach and served as an assistant coach under Coach Joe Diminick.

INDUCTEE Marshall’s football career is colorful and spectacular. He has become one of the leading grid tutors in Pennsylvania, by coaching the Purple Demons to the first Eastern Conference Championship in the history of this community. A man of winsome disposition and pleasing personality, Marshall has garnered extensive admiration in the ranks of players, officials and fans. Coal Township provided Marshall with his first coaching job. He tutored the Demons in 1939 and 1940. After taking the boys to camp in the summer of 1941, he left Coal Township to accept a position at Northeast Catholic High in Philadelphia. After spending three years there, Marshall embarked on a college coaching mission. In 1944, he joined Milt Piepul as an assistant coach at Dartmouth College. After one year with the Green Wave, he moved to Lafayette College in Easton, PA., in 1945. In 1946, he went to Canisius, Buffalo, NY, where he spent two years as a mentor. Marshall’s last collegiate coaching assignment was at Auburn University in Alabama. He coached there in 1948 and after spring practice in 1949, returned to Coal Township. His teams are undefeated in 19 straight games, including one tie. Marshall has seen his crews roll up a total of 610 points and hold the enemies to a combined aggregate of 158 in two seasons. Marshall’s top achievement came when the Demons trounced Swoyersville for the Eastern Conference title. From all of us to Marshall we say: “Well done. May you attain still greater heights.”

INDUCTEE Roy Sanders, a versatile athlete in Coal Township High School and at Millersville State College, made himself most note-worthy as a football quarterback, although he did exceptionally well as a basketball and baseball player and a boxer. Sanders quarterbacked Coal Township teams that beat some of the coal region’s toughest rivals. Among them was Mahanoy City. C.T. upset Mahanoy in 1928 by a 14-0 score at Maysville. Under Roy’s inspiring pilotship Coal halted four Mahanoy touchdown drives, one of them on the Demon’s three-inch line. In addition to his yeoman job of running the team, Roy tossed two touchdown passes and booted a pair of bonus points. Sanders was head football coach at Coal Township High in 1946 and served as co-coach with Ed Sutt in 1945. Sanders never wanted to be head coach. He took the job in time of emergency and as a standby favor. Roy performed as a forward in basketball, shortstop in baseball and could box with dexterity. Sanders as a pugilist was might handy with a right uppercut punch. Roy was a big gate attraction at the former Moose Hall at Lincoln and Market Streets when he and Frankie Houser tangled on windup boxing features. Roy was quite a “Joe” – cheerful and jolly and a guy who recognized a person’s good points rather than misgivings and pitfalls.