Year Inducted: 2005
Impacted the lives of young athletes from 1929 to 1978. A graduate of Arendtsville Vocational School and Penn State, his coaching career began at Benton High in 1929 where he started boys soccer and basketball programs. Returned to Arendtsville to coach boys and girls basketball and from 1959 to 1968 coached junior high boys basketball at New Oxford. Overall coaching record was 359-90-10 including a 109-25 slate at New Oxford. In 1953 he was the driving force behind the formation of the Gettysburg Little League and served as the league’s first president and remained on the board of directors for almost 20 years. He passed away on January 18, 1997.