ON THIS DATE

June 25, 1956 At a special meeting of the Board of Education, Coaldale names Bob Wear the school's new head football and basketball coach. Wear also is named as a physical education instructor. The new mentor succeeds Andy Kalen, who resigned to take a position on the coaching staff at George Washington University. Wear lettered at Penn State in 1941 and also played in three games for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1942.