Bill grew up playing sandlot and
high school football in Cleveland, Ohio. He then played two years of
service football with Norfolk Tars and freshman football at Ohio
University.He started coaching the New Hartford Bears, a Pop Warner midget
level team, in 1971. He accepted head coach and program administrator
responsibilities in 1974 and was elected secretary-treasurer of the Tri
County Central Youth Football League in 1978. Tri County Central joined
American Youth Football in 2001 in order to establish age and weight
limits compatible with local area school systems. Bill continues to
function in his administrative responsibilities as well as head coach of
the New Hartford Bears, which is now an AYF Division II
Jr. Middie Team. His trophy case displays 11 team championship trophies
and his wall displays a number of plaques, including several scholastic
achievement plaques won by the Bears.
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