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THOMAS
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1987 - FOOTBALL -
POSTHUMOUS |
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Thomas E. (Pop) Ellwood, a Washington
native, was a 1913 graduate of Washington High School and was captain of
the football team in his senior year.
He played guard for Penn State University in the 1923 Rose Bowl game and
after graduation in 1924, coached football at Centerville High School,
Redstone Township in Fayette County, Trinity High School, Chartiers
Township and Mapletown. He played professional football with the
Brownsville Independents.
Ellwood started Trinity's wrestling program in 1931 and also coached
wrestling at Chartiers Township and Washington & Jefferson College,
where he served as freshman football coach. He also wrestled as a
heavyweight for a team representing the Washington YMCA.
Ellwood, a science and mathematics teacher in the high schools where he
coached, lived for many years on a farm at Washington R.D. 6. His 1945
football team at Chartiers Township (now Chartiers-Houston ) won the
WPIAL Class B title with an upset victory in the championship game at
Brownsville over undefeated and heavily-favored Masontown.
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