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Top 10 Winningest Section IV Football Coaches · Cover IV Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is dedicated to the top 10 winningest Section 4 football coaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: This episode is the result of a next fan up submission by Don Dunbar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Don.
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  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate your submission.
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  SPEAKER_00: And thank you to all those who helped me research and verify this information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Individuals don't experience success on their own.
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  SPEAKER_00: The coaching profession is no different.
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  SPEAKER_00: These coaches had excellent student athletes, coaching staffs, community support, and most importantly, a strong family support structure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of these coaches coached when you could only play seven or eight games in a season.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did not have sectionals or state playoffs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coaching success is not determined by numbers alone, but by the life lessons they teach student athletes and ultimately how those student athletes lead their lives and pay it forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coaches are leaders and teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Their classroom happens to be a football field.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word coach comes from stagecoach, which took people from one place to another.
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  SPEAKER_00: To coach is to take student athletes from where they are to where they want to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teams are comprised of individuals committed to a group effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coaches realize individuals play the game, but teams win games.
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  SPEAKER_00: These coaches created a winning culture to ensure continuity season after season.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why tradition does not graduate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now on to the top ten coaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beginning with number 10, Dick Hoover of Vestal.
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  SPEAKER_00: He coached 26 seasons and his teams accumulated 182 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had eight undefeated seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was named National Coach of the Year, and the field is named after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was in the initial class inducted into the Greater Binghamton Sports Hall of Fame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number nine, Bob Gould of Groton, 29 seasons and 190 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was really shook the trees on this, and I was apologize to the Groton fans.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was not able to find any information other than the seasons and wins on Coach Gould.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have any more information, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number eight, Dick Senko, Elmira Free Academy, 29 seasons, 193 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: His teams had 18 league or division championships and seven Section 4 titles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Senko was named Metro Elmira Coach of the Decade for the 1980s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ron O'Connell, deposit, coached 36 seasons, and his teams accumulated 193 wins, nine league championships, three Section 4 championships, two regional championships.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a Section 4 Coach of the Year, and he's ducted into the Section 4 Hall of Fame.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is right out of his mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Several undefeated seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did not know the numbers, and that just shows he's not focused on the numbers.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was focused on the student athletes and helping them to grow as young men and ultimately win games.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he did a great job just to show you the humility, not only with Coach O'Connell, but a lot of these coaches exhibit that as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moving on to number six, Harold Ty Cobb, Union Endicot, coached 39 seasons and his teams accumulated 202 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had seven undefeated seasons, and the field is named after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: To see if you have the leadership prerequisites, visit TDSPI.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we're halfway through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number five, Fran Angeline, Johnson City and Union Endicott.
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  SPEAKER_00: He coached 36 seasons and his team accumulated 216 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the national coach of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a two-time New York State Coach of the Year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And his teams had two undefeated teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also they had two teams ranked number one in New York State.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Union Endicott Field House is named after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Coach Bellino, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Coach Angeline was in the initial class inducted into the Greater Binghamton Sports Hall of Fame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number four, Jim Hagerty, Tyoga.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coached 33 seasons, accumulated 232 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Little college trivia.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was college teammates with Ted Marchabroda and Chuck Knowles, two individuals who went on to have successful coaching careers in the NFL.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Haggerty started coaching at Waverly, then went to Elmire Notre Dame, where he started the football program.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the current head coach, which is coming back after uh had starting there a long time ago, Coach Johnston Sr., he was Coach Haggerty's first quarterback at Notre Dame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Haggerty's teams had two Section 4 championships, four Section 4 finalists, six Section 4 divisional championships, six IAC League Championships, three IAC slash Section 4 playoff champions, 11 IAC division championships, four undefeated teams, and he's a Section 4 Hall of Fame inductee, and the field is named after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: On to number three, Mike Deluisio, Notre Dame, coached 38 seasons and accumulated 244 wins, one state championship, four regional or intersectional championships, five Section 4 championships, and 19 divisional championships.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, Dave Kelly Delhi, 48 seasons, 272 wins.
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  SPEAKER_00: His team from 1980 to 1988 had the highest winning percentage in Section 4.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has one New York State championship, nine Section 4 championships, 10 league titles, and from 1984 to 1987, his team had a 34-game win streak, which was the longest in Section 4 football at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Currently, Maine Edwell holds that record with 62.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coach Kelly was a five-time Daily Star Coach of the Year.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a Section 4 Hall of Fame in Duck D, and he's in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, and the field is named after him.
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  SPEAKER_00: This takes us to number one, and that is Jim Hoover at Walton.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jim coached 41 seasons, accumulated 318 wins, two state championships, 14 Section 4 championships, 19 division championships, 14-time coach of the year, Section 4 Hall of Fame in Duck D, and also a greater Bingham Sports Hall of Fame in Duck D.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's the only coach on this list that is still coaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's been an assistant coach for his son Adam at Walton since 2017.
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  SPEAKER_00: Little bit of trivia here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This season, the 2021 season, marks the 70th season a Hoover has been a head coach of a Section 4 football team.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's across three generations of Dick, Jim, and now his son Adam.
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  SPEAKER_00: And another little interesting trivia: if you added up Jim Hoover's total wins, 318, and his father, Dick over 182 wins, that's 500 wins total.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think this is really astonishing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take these 10 coaches, and they have combined for 2,231 wins over an accumulated 355 seasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's astronomical.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just at a testament of these coaches, their student athletes, their community, their family support has been absolutely great and allow them to do those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know we have current Section 4 coaches that are going to be coming up onto this list as well in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there you have it, the top 10 winningest Section 4 football coaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be on the lookout next week, I will be publishing an episode dedicated to the winningest Section 4 football coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Coach Jim Hoover.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't miss it.
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