Ironman Football - Danville

Assorted Stories & Photos Involving Football in Danville, Pennsylvania.

Walter F. "Buck Mensh

Football Coach, resigned 1942

Danville High School Football 1941 [?]

1941 Team [photo above]

Two names were omitted from the top row. One was Claude "Dutch" Warntz, 3rd from left

If  the photo above is 1941, this is likely 1942?  Although I'm not certain.  

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In 1947

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The Danville Rotary Club sponsored a public dinner in honor of the Danville High School varsity and junior varsity teams held in the Montour Hotel with William T. Deeter presiding with addresses by Thomas Magill, president, and Guy Casner, secretary, of the Retailers Association.

A feature of the event was the presentation of gold footballs to members of the squad playing in their final season game. A presentation of sweaters donated by the Danville Lodge Order of Moose; a cutting of the touchdown cake donated by the old Dutch Bakery were among a celebrity evening honoring the local high school football team for a 10-1 season.

Marked by a capacity house, the annual football rally held in the Capitol Theatre on the evening before the Thanksgiving Day game with Bloomsburg was attended by all squads and cheerleaders with Henry H. Hostelley, master of ceremonies.

The rally featured a short vocal program followed by the film, Spirit of West Point.

Frank W. Magill, president of the Board of Education, outlined the history of high school football to show the tradition of the game was deep-seated in Danville.

In introducing Ken “Trapper” Bills as head coach, Hostelley stated, “That when he took over this position for us, we expected a little and he gave us a lot.”

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In 1961 a North-South Football Classic was held on Thanksgiving Day, sponsored by the Danville Kiwanis Club.

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Danville boy sent home a football

Corp. Elias Sweitzer of Danville, stationed at Schofield Hawaii, sent home a football schedule to have been used in a game with another Army unit in Hawaii on December 7th.

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1952 Danville Team

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From the 1958 Yearbook

[Which would make this the 1957 team] :

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Coaches

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"In 1946, Ken Bills came to Danville High school and assumed the duties of football, basketball, and baseball coach, as well as athletic director.  His won losses for this period are equal to none.  I could not obtain enough official statistics to print it accurately.  We who started his first year at DHS remember going from 1 & 20 to 10 & 1 in 1947."	1985
Bills left Danville to be the principle at Montgomery High School.

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The "Judy Price Trophy

A Bloomsburg Coaches Legacy

Awarded to the winner of the Bloomsburg Danville Game

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The "Judy" Price Trophy

1957

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1989
Danville High School football player Ernie Wright (left) presents an Ironmen t-shirt to former NFL player Bill Glass at the F.W. Diehl School, Danville. Glass, who played with the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns is a member of the NFL Hall of Fame, and is an evangelist who spoke at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

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