INDUCTEE Felix was a native of Kulpmont, attended Mount Carmel High where he played end and captained the 1931 team. Wilkes-Barre G.A.R. was the only team to score on and defeat the Tornadoes 13-6. Upon graduation he enrolled at Perkiomen Prep where he lettered in track and football. Matriculating at LaSalle College, Kadel played varsity […]

INDUCTEE Gary was a standout football player for Shamokin High School during 1952 and 1955. Upon his graduation from Shamokin, He attended East Stroudsburg State College during the years of 1956 and 1959. When he graduated from East Stroudsburg, he became an assistant coach at Bloomsburg High School in 1960. In 1963 He became and […]

INDUCTEE Another of the Coal Region Stars who gave the University of Pennsylvania its last fling at National Football Prominence. Jim, along with previous inductees Glenn Adams, Walt Hynoski, and Ed Binkoski, starred at Penn between 1950 and 1955. He played 2 years on a National Championship Service Team at Bolling Air Force Base. He […]

INDUCTEE There aren’t a lot of people who can boast of having played in three major bowl games, but Dennis Zmudzin can. The former Lourdes Standout played against LSU in the ’74 Orange Bowl, against Baylor in the ’75 Cotton Bowl, and against Alabama in the ‘75(’76) Sugar Bowl. (At that time the Sugar Bowl […]

INDUCTEE Ray Singley epitomized the Coal Region youth, who used his skill as an athlete to finance his education. He was one of 13 children living in a Company house, whose football ability as captain of the Mount Carmel High School team earned him a scholarship at Gettysburg College. He played 4 years at Gettysburg, […]

INDUCTEE Cleveland Browns Coach Jim Garrett stunned some people at a banquet recently when he said he considered Ben DiFrancesco “the finest football player I’ve ever coached”. Remember now, Garrett has coached NFL for 15 years, including several championship games and at least one Pro Bowl. People who had seen the Atlas Native were not […]

INDUCTEE Jim Garret has done it all in football. But right now, He’s doing what he loves best: coaching. He was an All-Conference fullback at Utah State, played a season each with the Eagles and Giants and finally bowed out as a player after two years in the Canadian Football League. He then coached 9 […]

Scholar Athlete Dawn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. John Bush, 416 North Market Street, Mount Carmel, Pa. Dawn is a seventeen year old Senior at Mount Carmel Area High School who has lettered in Track, Cross-Country and Basketball. She has lettered four years in Basketball and has been a starter her last […]

Scholar Athlete William, is the son of Mrs. Judith Strunk & Mr. Jacob Niehoff, and lives at 501 Balsam Street, Shamokin, Pa. Bill is a Senior at Shamokin Area High School who has played four years of Basketball, four years of Baseball and a member of the Honor Society in his junior and senior year. […]