westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
The West York Wrestling
Archive
1934
-
2021 This website has 615 Pages
and...
over 1400 Photos!
WY Wrestling Alumni
last updated on
02/04/21
"SUCCESS
is not
measured by what
ONE
brings, but rather...
by what ONE
leaves!"
"The farther backward
you
can look,
the farther forward...
you can see!"
Winston S. Churchill
East Stroudsburg State
Wrestling Lettermen
*10 West York
Alumni on the
ESU
Letter...
List
*Eby (2), Luckenbaugh (4), M. Stambaugh
(4), Lehman (4), Lichty (1),
B.
Gay (3), Wolfe (4),
B. Stambaugh (1), Sprenkle (1), Buelow (3).
"Letterwinners from 1970-2019"
ESSC NCAA WRESTLING
1975 East Stroudsburg State College
Wrestling
Home Match @
ESSC's Koehler Fieldhouse vs. NC
State.
(L-R) Jack Miller, Coach Clyde H. "Red" Witman, Gary Kessel,
Don Lehman,
Phil Conlin & Dan Leach.
(1975 @ ESSC vs. North Carolina State dual meet) photo sent to D. Lehman from Clyde Witman "ESSC
1973-77 Wrestling Results"
ESSC Wrestling 1973-77...
44-26-3 (63% win percentage)
West York, PA Bulldogs
Wrestling
WY Head Coach... Brian Gross
2020-21 (4-6) WY
Wrestling Season Results
(WY Wrestling
Schedule/WY Roster/WY Results)
WEST YORK
WRESTLING
"If you
Wrestled...you are in a FRATERNITY like NO other!"
*Click on
a below photo...for their "OWN" bio page (L-R)
Dana Luckenbaugh, John T. Toggas,
Scott Callahan & Brian Kuntz
(L-R)
Bill Luckenbaugh
, Don
Lehman
,
Mike Stambaugh
& Keith Lichty
(L-R)
John Sprenkle,
Darl "Smokey" Dennis,
Paul C. McCleary & Kevin McCleary
(L-R)
Larry Haas, Jason Turnbull, Don Narber & Dr. Glenn Amsbaugh
(L-R) Neil Bupp, Paul Mulay,
Ron Emenheiser & Jeff Linebaugh
(L-R) Eric Lehman,
Fred Lehman, Brent Gladfelter
&
Todd Lehman
(L-R)
Billy Randt, Bruce
Stambaugh
, Tony Hoffman & Tom Toggas
(L-R) Guy Boyer, Garrett
Stauffer, Ken Shorts &
Wilmer Pressel
(L-R)
Jeff Meckley, Gary
Narber,
Jeff Wolfe & Skip Martin
(L-R) Dave Maday,
Randy Blasdell, Rod Stough & Steve Toggas
West York Wrestling HALL-OF-FAME
(by Coach John T. Toggas & Don
Lehman... WY selection committee)
1972 WY
Coaches... Bob Bowers & John T. Toggas WY's Championship
Coaches
Bob Brown
(1963)
▪ Dr. D.
Kenneth Ober (1964) John T. Toggas
(1965, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978) Bill
Luckenbaugh
(1992,
1994)
▪
C. Fissel
(1999)
West
York Wrestling
"Coaching
Win/Loss History"
691-523-14
(1934-2021)
*
John
Toggas @ Biglerville...
38-32-2 (overall 307-110-4).
*
Ober &
Toggas are in the National Wrestling
Hall of Fame.
*
C. Richards, JT Toggas, Dr. K. Ober & B. Luckenbaugh... are in
the PWCA Pennsylvania Wrestling
Hall of Fame.
"Leadership, like WRESTLING, cannot be
learned
by reading
about it!"
1963-64 West York Area Junior High
School 1964
York JH League ▪ Wrestling Championship Team
▪ Front (L-R)
Bill Luckenbaugh, Steve Smith, Ed
Spangler, Jeff Linebaugh.
▪ Back
(L-R)
Coach
Robert Bowers,
Steve Kunkle,
Dan Druck,
Don Narber,
Ronald
Emenheiser, Coach Whedon Myers.
West York Wrestling
1971-72
(14-0) YCIAA Champions
▪ Knee
(L-R)
- Steve Thomas,
Paul Mulay,
Skip Martin,
Keith Lichty,
Barry Botterbusch,
Mark
Jenkins, Kevin McCleary
&
Neil Bupp.
▪ Back (L-R) -
Jim Haas, Barry Albright,
Scott Callahan, Mike Root,
Barry King,
Mike Stambaugh
&
Don Lehman.
West York's Donald Gohn...
was the
very
FIRST
West York Wrestler to win a
match
(in 1934) with a fall
in 25 seconds!!
WEST YORK WRESTLING
westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
DID YOU KNOW??
West York Area, PA High School
had a finalist in the
VERY FIRST PIAA
State Wrestling Tournament in 1938!!
1938 PIAA State Wrestling Finals
@
*155lbs.
*Dick DiBattista (Lower Merion)
dec. Cletus Gentzler
(West York)
1969 YCIAA District III
Sectional II
Wrestling
Champions
▪
Front
(L-R) Merv Keeney (DA),
*Bill Luckenbaugh (WY), Jim Keesee (DA),
Larry Haas (WY), Mike Anstadt (DA), Frankie Vega (WY).
▪
Back Row (L-R) Don Adams (DA), *George Myers (DA), Terry Myers (DA),
Frank Rice (DA), *Richard Hartman (DA), *John Sprenkle (WY).
@ West York (PA) Area High School Gym
*4 PIAA State Champions in
above photo!! 1969 YCIAA
Section 2 Wrestling Championships
PIAA
CHAMPIONS PAGE
YAIAA High
School PIAA Champs (40)
∙ ∙
Dallastown
(5),
Hanover
(5), Delone
Catholic
(4),
South Western
(4),
Kennard Dale
(4), Biglerville
(3),
Dover
(3),
West York HS
(3),
Bermudian Springs
(3),
Susquehannock
(1),
York
Tech
(1),
Spring
Grove
(1),
New
Oxford
(1),
Littlestown
(1),
Gettysburg
(1).
WY Elementary
Patch designed by the late...
Samuel Toggas, RPh
westyorkwrestlingalumni.com archive photo
The late... Chuck Nace
▪
1977 YCIAA Section Champion
▪
1976 Easton HS Holiday Champion
▪
1977 WY Wrestling Outstanding Award
WYW ALUMNI
Obituary Page
Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall Of Fame
www.westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
YAIAA's
PWCA Hall of Fame Inductees
(13) ▪
Charles
"Chuck" Richards (West York) 1976 ▪
John
T. Toggas (West York/Biglerville) 1992 ▪ Bill Bence (Dallastown) 1993 ▪
Dr. D.
Kenneth Ober (West York/E-Town College) 1994 ▪ Terry
Conover (Hanover) 1996 ▪ Shaun Smith (Dover/Del Val) 2003 ▪ Joey
Wildasin (South Western/GCCC/OSU) 2004 ▪ Tony Koontz (Delone Catholic/N. Iowa) 2011 ▪
Brad
Lloyd (Red Lion/LHU) 2013 ▪
Charlie
Jacobs (Dover HS) 2015 ▪
Bill
Luckenbaugh
(West York/East Stroudsburg) 2016 ▪
Bob Gano (Delone Catholic/Biglerville)
2017 ▪ Mark
Banks (Y. Suburban/York Tech/W. Virginia) 2018 The
2016 PWCA Hall
of Fame Class Inductees ∙
Front Sitting Row
(L-R) Doug Buckwalter, Bob
Derr, Gib Fink & Bill Luckenbaugh. ∙ Back
Row (L-R) Tom Teagarden, Robbie Waller, Col. Dave Warnick
& Ken Wunderley. (not pictured... Mike Pirozzola)*2016 PWCA photo by
Tom Elling
2015 - Don
Lehman w/2015 PWCA Hall of Famer... Dover's Charlie Jacobs
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
1974 Wrestling Championships
@ Slippery Rock State College
February 22-23, 1974
1974 PSAC Champions
▪
Kneeling
(L-R)
Jack Spates
(Slippery Rock),
Craig Turnbull
(Clarion),
Randy Watts (Bloomsburg), Don Rohn (Clarion) &...
Bill Luckenbaugh (East Stroudsburg State).
▪
Back Row (L-R) Tom Herr (Edinboro), Bill Shuffstall (Slippery Rock),
Wade Schalles OW
(Clarion), William Simpson (Clarion) &...
Bob Stetler (East Stroudsburg State).
▪
1974
PSAC Wrestling
Tourney Results Page
Another...
westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
Feature!
East
Stroudsburg State College HOME
WRESTLING
ESU Wrestling
Letterwinners '70-'19
Here!
ESU Wrestling
Letterwinners by Year
Here!
"4 West York
Alumni on this
Team!"
1973-74 East
Stroudsburg State College Team
▪ Knee (L-R)
Bill Cuff, *Keith
Lichty, *Bill Luckenbaugh, Gary Kessel,
Mel Riddick.
▪
Back
(L-R) *Don
Lehman,
Bob Stetler,
*Mike Stambaugh, Carl Seitz,
Phil Conlin,
Fred Swanson.
(*denotes West York High School graduate!) ▪
Note: 3 high school state champions in above photo...
(Billy Cuff - NJ, Bill Luckenbaugh - PA, Fred Swanson - NJ.)
East Stroudsburg State College NCAA
Division I Wrestling 1976-77
ESSC's 1st Year in the
E.I.W.A. 1976-77
East Stroudsburg State College
(Division I) ▪
Front
(L-R) Sal Picone, Desi McNelis, James
Vargo & Galen
McWilliams. ▪
Middle
(L-R)
Asst.
Coach Rich Schumacher, Don Lehman,
Gary Kessel, Michael "Skip" Falcone, Billy Cuff
& n/a. ▪
Back (L-R) Asst. Coach Bob Dalling, Bill Katinowsky, Kerry Hyman,
Wayne
Carroll,
Greg
Shoemaker, Don Blair
& ESSC Head Coach
Clyde H. "Red" Witman.
ESSC/ESU
Wrestling
Letter's
From...1970 - 2019 Click...Here!
ESU WRESTLING PRACTICE ROOM
westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
To
the West York ...
by Don Lehman
▪ This website
is dedicated to the great memory of an office, full of photos,
a coffee pot, and the endless conversations between wrestlers
and their coach. This
website is dedicated to the memory of a scales room, clean and
immaculate, with
nicely framed photos of "past" West York Wrestling champions and
championship
teams... and, an exam table used for daily naps! This website is
dedicated to the
memory of a small hot wrestling room - full of records,
all-time teams, motivational
quotes and a dark blue mat kept clean by a team of dedicated "Mat
Maids." This
website is dedicated to the memory of an old equipment room, with
its proudly
hung and pressed WY uniforms, and an equipment locker with a history
of WY's
YCIAA Sectional Champions, so neatly written. This website is
dedicated to the
memory of those great fans, the full gyms and the
proud support we felt. The
Alumni Website is dedicated to the memory of a head coach who had
the vision for the
above, and the great patience to stay those long nights
while his wrestlers chatted
& took those long showers after a very tough practice or dual meet. This
website is
just
a "modern" extension of the visuals we saw during our lives at West York
Area!
▪ This website
is dedicated to a former head coach who cared,
the late John T.
Toggas, and the many West York athletes who competed in the World's
"Oldest and
Toughest Sport!"
▪ Website
also dedicated to WY '72 Alumnus -
the late
A. Scott Callahan
(top)...
westyorkwrestlingalumni.com
2018 - Don Lehman and Mike Brouillette...
(Mike was a past West York Wrestling Booster Club President)
on a ride to Lititz, PA. Mike's son,
Jordan, wrestled for
West York. *Mike also created & developed the
original westyorkwrestling.com
