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Nypaver coached the Rams to consecutive titles in the first two years of the Pioneer Athletic Conference -8 during the 1986 and 1987 seasons. The previous year the Rams finished in second place behind Downingtown in the old Ches-Mont League. There were eight teams in the former PAC-10 before Owen J. Roberts and Great Valley joined the circuit to make it known as the PAC-10 in 1988.
Nypaver’s Rams defeated Phoenixville on Thanksgiving Day to win both titles before he resigned in 1987. Spring-Ford and Phoenixville began the tradition known as the Turkey Day Schuylkill Bowl, an annual football regular season finale that still continues today, 22 years later. Nypaver’s Rams defeated the Phantoms, coached by former Upper Merion High School offensive line coach Andy Toto, in the inaugural Schuylkill Bowl in Royersford back in 1986.
Nypaver came to the Spring-Ford area in 1984. He is originally from Uniontown, Pa., which is located below Pittsburgh. It is an area that is known as a hotbed for athletes, including former football stars George Blanda and Johnny Lujack.
Nypaver first coached at Connellsville High School, which was then known as Dunbar.
In his first season at Spring-Ford, Nypaver suffered a serious ulcer while on the sidelines during the early part of the season and Ray Kodish served as interim head coach. Kodish later became an assistant principal at Spring-Ford High School.
After leaving Spring-Ford, Nypaver joined the late Ben Crisi on the football staff at Great Valley High School in East Whiteland Township in 1988. He then was an assistant coach to Pat Nugent at Reading Central Catholic High school for one year during the 1991-92 term. Nugent now serves as principal of Spring-Ford High School and previously turned Spring-Ford wrestling into its own dynasty during the late 1980s and 1990s.
Nypaver also coached track and middle school boys basketball while at Spring-Ford before retiring from his teaching post in 1997. He coached track from 1985 until 1996 and maintained the middle school basketball job until his retirement.
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Barry Sankey
Nypaver’s Rams defeated Phoenixville on Thanksgiving Day to win both titles before he resigned in 1987. Spring-Ford and Phoenixville began the tradition known as the Turkey Day Schuylkill Bowl, an annual football regular season finale that still continues today, 22 years later. Nypaver’s Rams defeated the Phantoms, coached by former Upper Merion High School offensive line coach Andy Toto, in the inaugural Schuylkill Bowl in Royersford back in 1986.
Nypaver came to the Spring-Ford area in 1984. He is originally from Uniontown, Pa., which is located below Pittsburgh. It is an area that is known as a hotbed for athletes, including former football stars George Blanda and Johnny Lujack.
Nypaver first coached at Connellsville High School, which was then known as Dunbar.
In his first season at Spring-Ford, Nypaver suffered a serious ulcer while on the sidelines during the early part of the season and Ray Kodish served as interim head coach. Kodish later became an assistant principal at Spring-Ford High School.
After leaving Spring-Ford, Nypaver joined the late Ben Crisi on the football staff at Great Valley High School in East Whiteland Township in 1988. He then was an assistant coach to Pat Nugent at Reading Central Catholic High school for one year during the 1991-92 term. Nugent now serves as principal of Spring-Ford High School and previously turned Spring-Ford wrestling into its own dynasty during the late 1980s and 1990s.
Nypaver also coached track and middle school boys basketball while at Spring-Ford before retiring from his teaching post in 1997. He coached track from 1985 until 1996 and maintained the middle school basketball job until his retirement.
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Barry Sankey
posted by The Phoenix Files at
1:08 PM
3 Comments:
Like too much of this town, too dedicated to reliving the past rather than dealing with current topics. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.
"There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?"
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not get me wrong, these men are good coaches. The point that Barry seems to fail to learn is that these men are big fish little pond. If they were to truly test there mettle go to college ranks and let’s really see what they are made of. I agree that they have played in the lives of a lot of young athletes that may never see a college field of competition. To keep idolizing these men who have not tried to continually better themselves is paying homage to self complacency. Yes honor them, but let’s not make gods of them.
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