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Al Angelo , widely considered the most
respected football coach in city high school history, passed away 4/19/08 at age 77. Al holds the city record for most championships won -- with 10 in 21
seasons at Frankford High (1965-84, '87) -- and his numbers for winning percentage (.833) and wins-per-season (8.8) are also near the very top of those lists. Al was viewed as a second (even first) father by his players and many
remained in touch through the years. That was especially so during the past year-plus as
he waged a courageous battle against cancer. We welcome your comments about Al, and they'll be posted below. Please e-mail them to silaryt@phillynews.com . Also, we will gladly post pictures. Those may be sent to the same e-mail address. Thank you very much. Look below the contributions for the DN story that detailed Al's
second (and permanent) retirement after the '87 season.
Services were: Thursday, April 24, at St. Martin
of Tours (Oxford Circle). The procession passed Frankford's stadium en route to St.
Dominic
Cemetery.
Contributions . . .
Photo of coaching legends, courtesy of John McBurnie . .
. L to R -- Vince McAneney, Bill "Dapper" Walsh (former ABA referee), Tom Mullineaux, Al Angelo, John McAneney, Mike Capriotti, Ron Cohen.
Just wanted to say really sorry
to hear about Mr. Angelo my thoughts and prayers to his family. He was one
of the nicest guys I have ever met. Not a time went by that he didn’t ask
about my brother Jim and to tell him to say hello. -- Tim Hueber ---- Al was a true gentle...gentleman that I am honored to be able to call my
friend...He really is my husband's dear friend but through the years we
became close friends...He would call or see us and talk football with Vince
but with me he wanted to know about me and my grandchildren, he wanted to
know how I was feeling and what was going on. He always seemed very
interested in me and my life...Al always made me feel so very special, so
very important...My life is truly richer and blessed because I can say "Al
Angelo was my dear friend...my life will be a little empty because of the
loss but my heart is filled because he is in my heart forever." I love you and will miss you very much. Holly McAneney (Vince McAneney's wife) ---- I first met Al
Angelo in 1950 wh en
I was a sophomore & Al was a freshman at West Chester University. Al
transferred from Mississippi State after a football injury to his shoulder.
Al could not play because of the injury and I got hurt my sophomore year.
The next year, we both coached the junior varsity team. I was the
quarterback coach and Al was backfield coach. We only played three games.
One game was Drexel. I had two quarterbacks, Vince Trombetta and Howie
Zeitz, my roommate and later department head at Washington high. I called
both together before the game. Flipped a coin. Heads you start, tails you
start. Trombetta won and they alternated quarters. I forget who won the
game. I never thought I would meet someone who knows the game, loved the
game, loved the kids and could coach the game better than Vince Lombardi,
Tom Landry, Don Shula than my brother John until I saw Al Angelo in action.
They are the best. I
will miss Al. I will always love Al. There is no better. -- Vince McAneney P.S. -- I went to one of Al's games and saw he carried a clipboard the
whole game. My next game I tried the same thing. After two minutes the
clipboard was thrown into the middle of the field . . . No more clipboards. ---- The coach will be missed at
our luncheons. He was a true leader and the most respected man that I
ever knew. The Markward Club will miss him. Dennis W. Hill Secretary of the Markward Club ---- I learned of Mr. Angelo's passing and wanted to
offer my sincere condolences to the Angelo family at this time of deep sorrow. I met Al Angelo for the first time in the gym at Frankford High School. I was a skinny, painfully shy 15 year-old sophomore student. With knees wobbling and palms sweating, I somehow worked up enough courage to ask him if I could help out as team manager. Sensing my nervousness, Mr. Angelo put his arm around my shoulder, introduced me to his assistant Ron Howley and welcomed me to the Frankford Football fraternity. As you well know, we enjoyed great success , thanks to our beloved coach. I felt very lucky to be a part of this wonderful tradition, however small. We all know about the many championships but the real measurement of the man I (and many others) had come to know was that Mr. Angelo was a true gentleman who worked to ensure we all studied hard in school and represented Frankford in the proper way. Next to my Dad, he was my hero growing up. Through the years I was one of the fortunate former students who remained in contact with Coach and I reminded him often of how grateful I was to him for giving me the opportunity to serve. He always told me each member of the team had a part to play and being a manager was no different in his mind. I feel fortunate that in our last telephone conversation that I told him I loved him. Perhaps the Lord has called him, knowing he needed a coach in Heaven to lead his football team this coming season. May God Bless you Coach! -- Michael Weick FHS '77 ---- He was such a gentleman. He will be missed. I always
enjoyed his company at the Markward Club Luncheons. He always had time
for everyone. -- Bob Dillon Markward Club Member ---- Growing up on
Pilling St. for the first three years of my life, every time I saw Coach
Angelo he seemingly always had a smile on his face. I always called him
Coach Angelo even though I was born after he stepped down from coaching
Frankford. I wasn't lucky enough to play for him, but I could see the
determination and passion burning in his eyes that fueled his players to
win. No matter the age difference Coach Angelo would talk to me as if I
was his best friend. He always told me to make my family and him proud
of me by doing good on the football field and even better in the
classroom. Every time I spoke to him the stories I heard from former
Frankford players, fans, family, you name it, I realized why the
stories gave me "goose bumps". He molded boys into men. Coach
Angelo bred into his players an instinct to win, in all aspects of
life. No matter who you were Coach Angelo became a mentor to you and
everyone he encountered. I knew him for seventeen years, and from the
time I could remember seeing his face to the last time I saw him, for
some reason I just see him, like I did in my Mother's year book, with
his championship jacket on, his clip board nestled underneath his
arm coaching from the sidelines. Even when he was still with us, his
spirit was still on the sidelines with the great group of men
that stepped in hoping to be as good as Coach Angelo. Now he is resting
for a while in heaven waiting for Coach Capriotti to start 2-A-DAYS so
he can help him win another Championship. Coach Angelo was always, and
always will be my mentor, my coach, but most of all my friend. On behalf
of the Law, Roussis, and Lemauro families, I extend my deepest sympathy
to Mrs Angelo, Skippy, Alisa, Annette, Arlene, and the rest of the
Angelo family. -- Jimmy Law (
current North Catholic student athlete. But Pioneer at heart) ---- Al was very involved in the planning of his funeral, from the songs to
the pallbearers to everything -- and he approached it like he would a game.
I convinced him that having the service at St. Martin's would make the most
sense [it's a few blocks from Frankford HS], even though he wasn't a member
there. I spoke with Father John Kelly, the pastor at St. Martin's, and he
said it would be OK to hold the service there. He also said he wanted to
meet Al, just to get to know him a little. So we drove down to Seaville
(near Ocean City) and Father Kelly had a nice talk with Al; he said it was
OK for me to sit in. He asked Al if he was OK with the idea that he was
going to die pretty soon. Al said he was, that he'd had a really great life
and was accepting his fate. Father Kelly then asked him about going to
heaven. "I think heaven is going to be a really great place. I think I'm
going to be very happy there," Al said. Then Father Kelly said, "Do you
think you'll be as happy as you were in 1978, when you beat Archbishop Wood
for the City championship, 27-7?" Well, Al was so amazed at that. He looked
over at me with the expression, Where did THAT come from? I hadn't said
anything to Father Kelly about that Wood game. Somehow he knew, though . . . -- Joe Schiavo Al's classmate at Frankford and great friend since then (Ted's note: That game was played in a driving rainstorm at Kennedy
Stadium, now the site of the Wachovia Center. Al had been 0-8-1 in City
Title games as a player, assistant and head coach (the win was only the
third for the Pub since 1951), so you can imagine how thrilled he was to
finally claim a W. By the way, Joe mentioned that Al, for one of the few
times in his career, had been talked into something that day by one of his
players. Here's that part: "Frankford was supposed to receive the
second-half kickoff. But the weather was so bad and the defense was playing
so great, one of the players told Al, 'We should kick off.' Al thought about
it and thought about it and came to agree with the kid. Kick off, pin them
down there, maybe get another quick touchdown. So, Frankford did kick off
again. Wood ran it back for a touchdown [80 yards, John Kafel]. Their only
score of the day.") ---- (Ted's note: This contribution comes from Harry Gutelius, who was taught
by Al at Frankford and then taught his son, Skip, and later became the
principal at Washington. He now works at Eastern University.) Al used to think of every detail. He and I
would have lunch and he would tell me what he thought would be a key to his
next game. Then I would write an article for the News Gleaner . If
Al's concern was the other team's defensive line, then I would write how
much trouble they would give us, and Al would read that article to the team
in the locker room and rant to charge them up. Of course, I never allowed
myself to have a byline so our players never knew Al was actually the
"brains" behind the article. I bet that I wrote a couple dozen stories for
which I had to be anonymous-- they kept wanting to print my name and I kept
telling them it wasn't necessary (obviously would have been
counter-productive) Al and I used to work on the football programs for each
game too as well as Yearbook layouts (I was the sponsor of that for 7
years). Like Ron Howley said in your DN article, Al just outworked
everybody. And he thought of every little detail-- from not practicing
placekicks at the end of the stadium where Jim Peters grew red, blue, and
gold flowers, to allowing the band to have 70 yards of the field for
practice (yes, Brian Pastor got 70 and Al took 30) because he wanted
spirited music at the games, to having the slats of the locker room benches
painted tri-color, to having kids like Tom Stinson and Linda Muller paint
all the game balls, etc., etc. When I first became principal of Washington I
took Ron Cohen to Frankford to meet with Al and to see all the little things
Al did. Ron, obviously, learned well. I could write for weeks about Al. He was a special part of my life, and
when I talked with him last Friday at 9 AM and he said thanks and then
good-bye, it was a brief conversation I'll never forget. -- Harry Gutelius ---- My prayers go out to the Angelo family. Al was a good friend and mentor.
I first meet Al in the late 70's. He was working for the department of
recreation at Bridesburg. He was keeping the clock and drawing x's and o's
during basketball games. We got to talking about football during the games.
That is when I decided to get into coaching. Al I will miss you. Thanks for
all of your help over the years. Say hi to Tex. -- Jim Burner ---- I have enjoyed reading
the comments from Mr. Angelo's friends, players, and former students. He was
Frankford's Joe Paterno. I was fortunate to be his student and run track (didn't make the football
team) for him in the early 1980's when he assisted Mr. Howley with the track
team. He taught me a lot about working hard and being a gentleman. He will
be missed. Sincerely, Sean P. Stevens (Frankford, Class of 1984) ---- Al's is a passing of one of the TRULY GREATS. I stand
in salute to the man (as well as the coach) Just look at the impact of
so many young he has had over the years. They, just like me, have been
impacted by greatness. So, what do you do when one of the men who has
impacted you dies??? You do just as the soldier did in the movie
"GLORY". You pick up the flag and do your best to carry on that
greatness because you know that the cause of the greatness has been
true, and real, and sincere. Football was only a venue. Al would have
been so impactful in any endeavor. The things that have been written
are the same things I felt and are samples of the few real things left
in this life left to hold on to. I gain strength from Al's passing.
Not wanting to waste such an impact of greatness in my life. I kept in
touch with Al over the years. I tell him that the championship we won
in '78 has stayed with me all these years. Somehow, through good times
and bad, I always know that I am a champion. That I have championship
stuff in me. He was the curator of that. God bless Al Angelo. -- Walter K. Parrish ---- To know Al is to love him as a coach, a mentor, a
dear colleague and a wonderful friend. He touched so many lives and influenced so many of us in so many ways. He will certainly be missed. Sincerely, -- Mitch Kline Frankford High/Northeast High ---- Mr. Angelo was an
excellent role model and a second father to me personally. He was truly
one of a kind and I will truly miss him. The things he did off
the football field may be more noteworthy than what he accomplished on
the field. In the summer of my junior year Mr. Angelo took six of us
seniors-to-be, in his station wagon, on a road trip to visit prospective
colleges. He drove us to Delaware University and Glassboro to see the
campus and meet with college advisers. He also arranged for Gary Hegh
and I to visit Drexel Institute of Technology. It may not be a big
deal nowadays, but my parents never owned a car. It was and is a big
deal to me. To think Mr. Angelo who had 4 children of his own, cared
about us as much as he did his own is overwhelming. I am truly thankful
for all that he did for me. I did go to Drexel and graduated from there
in 1978. Sincerely, -- John Elinski – Class
of 73 ---- The coaches and Board of Director’s of Frankford Boys Club, past and
present would like to offer their sincerest condolences to the entire
Angelo Family. The positive and lasting impressions that Coach Angelo
has had on so many individuals who participated with Frankford Boys Club
through the years are too numerous to mention. As an organization we
were extremely fortunate that so many of the children who participated in
our athletic programs were able to continue learning from one of area’s
finest teachers…we were fortunate because so many of the young men who
Coach Angelo taught the game of football to came , as coaches and Board members, to several generations of
Frankford Boys Club kids! Coach Angelo has always been an integral part
of our success, not only on the athletic field but also in helping to
develop character and a sense of community in the young men who
participated in our programs. It will always be our hope that we were
viewed from Coach Angelo’s perspective as an organization who helped to
develop well rounded student athletes for Frankford High School. Sincerely, --
Frankford Boys Club ---- Growing up as a kid
and playing football in Frankford you knew the name Al Angelo. I can
still remember my father showing me his yearbook, and telling stories
about Al Angelo and the Frankford teams of the early 70’s led by Warren
Mays. My next door neighbor (also a Frankford grad) would tell of the
football atmosphere at Frankford. Coach Angelo’s legacy never left
Frankford, if not for those stories of how a tradition was built I may
not have the same respect and passion for football that I have today. My condolences go out
to the Angelo family and the entire Frankford community. -- Bill Sytsma Head Football Coach Neumann- Goretti High
School Side Note: I looked at
my father's yearbook recently, and noticed that the student next to him
was none other then Chalie Szydlik, HFC at North Catholic……Small World! ---- A ttending Mr. Angelo's viewing on Thursday made the fond memories of
everyday interactions with this one-of-a-kind man come rushing back.
When playing for him, seeing him at "13 Club" functions or simply in the
halls of Frankford, I always knew in the back of my mind, that I was
being influenced by someone unlike any other person I will meet again.
His spirit, knowledge, demeanor, patience and charisma exuded on every
occasion you came across him. (He would even treat a mere kicker like
the number one man on the depth chart at times.) Last May, I attended
the first annual Frankford Football Alumni Banquet mainly because I knew
Coach Angelo would be there, as I'm sure many did. After happily
waiting a half hour in line just to greet him, Mr. Angelo looked me in
the face, stated my name and said, "Tom, you're teaching and coaching at
Pennsauken High School, right?" To this day, I have no idea how he knew
that fact. Remarkable. My deepest sympathies to the Angelo family and
may the Coach Angelo stories continue to be told for decades to come. -- Tom Honeyman Class of '88 ---- In May of 2007, the
alumni of the Frankford High School Football Program came together to
honor one of its greats, Coach Al Angelo. The reunion, which was
attended by nearly 300 former players, cheerleaders, coaches, managers,
trainers, and friends of the football program, was originally an idea
that started in the heart of Mr. Angelo. (Not many people know that.) In the late
summer of 2003, a rumor swirled about that Mr. Angelo wanted to get all
his former players together for a reunion. Unfortunately that never
occurred back then. However, after finding out in early 2007 that Mr.
Angelo had pancreatic cancer, a few guys wanted to make that reunion
come to fruition for the man they held near and dear to their hearts.
The result was nothing less than incredible. Mr. Angelo, who described
the day as “one of the nicest days of his life,” was presented an award
for all his hard work and dedication to the young men and women of
Frankford. As always, Mr. Angelo held the crowd’s attention as he gave
his speech. He was a man that captured your attention and made you hang
on every word he spoke. Mr. Angelo was a humble man. When he was asked
about his successes, he talked about his partners. When he was given
awards and honored, he talked about the others around him that made it
happen. That’s just who he was. Mr. Angelo will always be remembered
as a generous, unselfish and honorable man that so many of us looked up
to and definitely wanted to play for as an athlete. hat day in May
2007 will forever be one of the nicest days in my life too. It was a
day that I personally got a chance to say thank you to the man I
respected so much and who helped mold me into the person I’ve become
today. It was a way for all of us to show Mr. Angelo how much he was
and always will be loved. Although he is no
longer with us in the physical sense, Mr. Angelo will always remain
close to our hearts and will live on in all of us forever. May he rest
in peace! -- Mark Dooling
Reunion pic . . . L to R -- Jim Reppert, Jim McCreesh,
Mark Cornell, Vince Hagan, Al Angelo, Matt McCreesh, Frank McCreesh, Dave Sanderson, Mark Dooling. ---- Words could never express what Al Angelo meant
to the game of football. Not only was he a coach, a father, and a teacher, he was also so eloquently expressed by Row Howley at his funeral, a mensch. When you spoke to Al he always made you feel so important and the center of the conversation. I'll never forget when I first started coaching and went to Atlantic City to a football clinic. I didn't know anyone there and Al came up to me and took me under his wing. He made me feel so much at home. My family and I will always remember how he came up from New Jersey and sat with my mother, wife and daughters, to help me celebrate the breaking of his Public League record for the most wins. After the game, Al, John and Vince McAneney, Dapper Walsh, John McBurnie, and many of our friends got together to tell and swap old football stories. Al, you may be gone but in our hearts you are never forgotten. -- Coach Ron Cohen George Washington High School ---- Frankford football has always been a part of my life. My mother
graduated from FHS and I grew up one block from the stadium. My mother
always took us to the Frankford football games. I remember attending
football games as a little girl and cheering with the cheerleaders. As a
student at Edmunds I remember looking out the third floor windows to
watch the football games until school was dismissed and I could get to
the game. We all knew who Mr. Angelo was!! When I entered FHS as a 10th grader Mr. Angelo was my home room
teacher. I was so excited! There was always laughter and fun in that
classroom. As a majorette in the marching unit I remember how the
marching unit would have most of the football field to practice and the
football team just a small area. I just thought all marching units were
able to practice on the football field. As wonderful as these high school memories are I cherish the
friendship that developed over the years. Mr Angelo attended my surprise
16th birthday party and my wedding. Over the years I visited him and his
family and he was always interested in what I was doing. I feel
fortunate that my children were able to meet him. Mr. Angelo always
engaged my children in conversation and always asked how school was. He
enjoyed hearing stories about their high school. I feel blessed that I can call Mr. Angelo teacher and friend.
Thank-you Mrs. Angelo, Arlene, Skip, Alisa and Annette for sharing your
husband/father with me and my family. I will be forever grateful. -- Phyllis Adamczyk Randolph FHS 1978 ---- I never had the honor of playing for coach
Angelo but I knew him well. He would give me nuggets of advice of what he thought worked on the field. As a young coach I remember being in awe with every piece of advice. My fondest memory of coach Angelo is when HE reached out to ME to welcome me to the head coaches brotherhood of Frankford. He shook my hand and said a few words that will stay with me forever. To his family, I am so very sorry for your loss. To coach Angelo......Thank You Sir. You were and will forever be Frankford High School. -- Juan Namnun, baseball coach, FHS ----
I wanted to send my sincere
condolences to the Angelo family. When I first heard about coach's
passing I felt numb. It took me a few days to process everything because
I must say that Coach Angelo meant the world to me. When I first came to
Frankford back in the year 1984 I had no idea about the rich tradition
that the school had. I was still playing football for my pop-warner
organization. I used to watch that great 1984 championship team and I
marveled at the things Blair Thomas was doing. I played JV for Coach
Folino 1985 and at that TIME I finally understood the rich tradition
that school had. It was now time for me to play for the legendary coach
Angelo but for some reason he retired and I played for Coach John
McAneney, who I feel the same way about!!!!!. We won the championship in
1986 under his guidance, soon after that he left Frankford and we were
left with no coach after that season. Rumors swirled about Coach Angelo
returning to coach the team. It was my senior year and he made his
announcement to come . I must be honest it made a lot of us
nervous because we heard stories on how hard he worked his teams to mold
into champions so we did not know how to take him. When we first took
the field for two a days, I was in awe at his teaching!! Coach Angelo
was the excellence of execution, he went over things with us over and
over and over again, until we knew it like we were taking a test in
class. I must admit that we had great talent that year, Sean Parrish,
Mark Dooling, Darren Swift, Scott Bonk, and Me Harun Reed. That year we
finished 12-0 and no matter how confident we were Coach Angelo always
made us feel that we still had to work and dedicate ourselves to be
prepared for teams that have it out for us, trying to ruin our
undefeated season. We knew that his health was not so good, so we made
sure you could here a pin drop when he was teaching on the field, he
always use to remind us of such great tradition that Frankford had and
that we were no different from his past championship teams. It’s hard to
write this and hold the tears from pouring out of my eyes because he
meant everything to me and for me to hear about his funeral and not be
able to attend the services because of prior job obligations deeply hurt
me so I figured that I would put these words together for him. To all of
my teammates from that marvelous team I love you guys dearly; to see
Tommy Honeyman and Mark’s comments gave me goose bumps!!! He use to
always tell us that these memories last a lifetime, now at the age of 38
years old, I realize what he was talking about. Just to see him smile in
gym class or to light a fire under us at half time if we were playing
down to the opponents level. Coach Angelo's memory will be forever
imbedded in my mind, heart and soul. I will always remember his strong
glasses that he wore and his signature smile that made everybody feel
comfortable, I will leave you guys with this great football memory. Sean
Parish, one of the greatest running backs to ever play on a Frankford
field, was running unlike himself in the first half of the Turkey game
1987. I have never seen Coach fire into a person like he did to Sean
grabbing the face mask in the locker room the hole nine yards and at
that time I realized that the old Al had appeared just for a moment to
light fire under us. Sean came out in the second half and rushed for
over 130 yards with a spectacular 80 yard run. I just wanted to share
that fond memory that I had of Coach Angelo. May god bless his family and
may his sole rest in peace. -- Harun Reed 1988 Graduate (1986,1987 champion) -----
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ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper." | ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper." | ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper."
ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper." | ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper."
ANGELO'S HIP BRINGS HALT TO A
LEGENDARY CAREER By TED SILARY, Daily News Sports Writer Al Angelo once again has stepped down as Frankford High's
football coach, the Daily News has learned. Taking that
step assuredly hurt - like all that are taken
these days by the most successful football coach
in city scholastic history. Angelo, who
coached the Pioneers from 1965 through '84, then
unretired last season and produced a 12-0 record
as well as a 10th Public League championship, is
bowing out this time for health reasons -
degenerative arthritis in his right hip. However, he
hopes to stay on as an assistant to whomever
succeeds him, and is confident that such
arrangements will be made. Angelo's
successor, according to sources, will not be
someone currently teaching at Frankford. John
Litzke, Angelo's first assistant last season, is
getting out of football coaching. Andy Folino,
the longtime junior varsity boss, intends to
remain on the staff, but is not seeking the head
position. No other faculty member has expressed
an interest in the job. Angelo, 58,
was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery
Feb. 16 at Temple University Hospital, but . . . "I got cold
feet. Chickened out. Whatever you want to call
it," he said with a laugh. "Everything
was all set. They had me giving five units of my
own blood, one a week. I got through two weeks
of that, then . . . It was embarrassing when I
had to call them and cancel. I could hardly pick
up the phone. I'd had myself believing it was
getting better. I'd walk back and forth in front
of my wife (Janet) and say, 'I'm walking better,
don't you think? ' "Now, I'm
almost stationary. I can only go a few feet. The
hip has deteriorated more in the past two months
than it had in the past 10, 12 years. " Janet Angelo
feels her husband nixed the hip surgery because
"some friends of his had it done, and now
they're having problems. They're back to
limping. " Angelo
finishes (you are finished, aren't you, Al?)
with a career record of 184-39-5. He posted
losing records in two of his first four seasons
(4-5-1 in '65 and '68), then went 164-22-3. Frankford's
'87 season was noteworthy in several respects.
The Pioneers became the first 12-0 team in
Public League history and rewrote the city-
league record for points in a season (454,
topping the 438 compiled by Bishop Egan in '66).
Also, Angelo surpassed Paul "Bart" Bartolomeo
(173 victories from 1946 to '78 at Southeast
Catholic-Bishop Neumann) as the winningest coach
in city-league history. When Angelo retired in '84, following a championship, he stated he
had been thinking about making the move "for
three years. The coaching, being on the field,
is still great. It was just some of the other
stuff that got to me, wore me out. " John McAneney
was Frankford's coach during the '85 and '86
seasons, and went 14-6
with a championship in '86. Angelo remained a
Pioneer loyalist, but was not involved at all
with the program. When McAneney retired from teaching last June, Angelo eagerly
reclaimed his old job. "I can't say
I've missed all football, but I've definitely
missed Frankford football," Angelo said at the
time. "When I missed it a lot the first year,
people would tell me, 'Next year, it won't be as
bad. ' It was worse. I missed it even more. " Frankford's
Mark Dooling, a first-team Daily News All-City
defensive lineman (he also starred on offense),
said Angelo met recently with the team, and
announced both his intention to quit as head
coach and desire to assist his successor. "I guess we
figured he'd keep coaching until he retired from teaching, but I can't say this shocks us,"
Dooling said. "We could tell last season that
his hip was bothering him. It slowed him up. "When he was
really getting into things, showing us stuff,
sometimes he'd have to stop (moving) and just
talk about what we were supposed to do. He'd go
through motions only with his upper body. He'd
ask us to picture things. " Angelo, a
graduate of Frankford and West Chester and the
chairman of Frankford's boys physical education
department, seems enthused about the prospect of
again being an assistant, as he was for the
Pioneers from 1962 to '64. "I'd still
have fun," he said, "but I'd have to do a lot
less work. I wouldn't have to run around as
much. Let the new coach do the game plans, call
the plays, worry about every little thing. I'll
just help. I never liked game day anyway. I was
always so nervous, I hardly knew my name. I
always liked practice best, just teaching the
kids. I really loved practicing on non-school
days. It was just football; no distractions. "If the new
person decides he doesn't want to have me, I'll
bow out. Even if I'm there, I'll try to stay in
the background. " Said his
wife: "Al doesn't feel he's retiring. He'll
still be coaching, but he won't have to worry
about everything else. He won't have everything
on his shoulders. "He has
always put so much into coaching. He says he can
change. (Laughter). I keep telling him he can't.
We'll see. " Meanwhile, Al Angelo says he will not, under any circumstances, be
Frankford's head coach again. "People
probably think I'm crazy, huh?" he said. "They
probably think, 'Does this guy want to coach, or
not? ' Retires, comes back, retires again. But
this is it. Someone else will be coaching this
team. If I'm there, it will only be as a
helper."
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Published
March 5, 2026
Updated
March 6, 2026