Jerry Zawacki had some big footsteps to follow in his high school football career at Uniontown High School, since his older brother Chuck was one of the best athletes to play for the Red Raiders.鈥淚t was difficult, it really was,鈥� Zawacki recalled. 鈥淎ll I got was are you going to be as ...
Brownsville High School had a run of outstanding centers on the football squad, guys like John 鈥淪hag鈥� Wolosky and Don Kostelnik. Bill Shillings fit right in with the best of them.Shillings was a standout football and baseball player at Brownsville in the late 1950s. He was on Brownie squads ...
The name Roebuck is famous in Fayette County baseball annals. Ed Roebuck played professional baseball and Scott 鈥淪kooter鈥� Roebuck did his best to uphold family tradition.鈥淓d is my great uncle, he was my dad鈥檚 uncle,鈥� Skooter Roebuck said. 鈥淚 heard all about East Millsboro and I ...
The second class of the Uniontown Area High School Academics, Arts and Athletics Hall of Fame is set for induction the weekend of Sept. 12-13 with 12 individuals and one team to be enshrined.The 2014 athletics inductees include:鈥� Charley Hyatt, Class of 1926 (deceased 1978): Hyatt was the ...
Randy Brandt knew at a young age that baseball was his ticket to a career in athletics. Baseball scouts had been looking at him since he was in ninth grade.Brandt was a two-sport standout for the Frazier Commodores in the early 1970s, excelling at baseball and basketball.鈥淚 wanted to play ...
High School football season is almost here and teams are gearing up for the upcoming season. That is why a lunch that I attended recently at Grand View Golf Club in North Braddock, Pa. is so noteworthy and timely.I was in the presence of football royalty. Good friend Bill Priatko put the ...
