Joe Majer

Accomplishments

• Among a select few high school basketball coaches in the state to reach the 600-win milestone.
• His boys basketball teams produced a 607-300 record during Majer’s 38-year coaching tenure with stops at both Johnstown Catholic High School (now Bishop McCort Catholic) and Conemaugh Township High School.
• Majer went 183-46 at Johnstown Catholic.
• His 1951 Crushers team won the Pennsylvania Catholic Interscholastic Athletic Association (PCIAA) state championship.
• His Johnstown Catholic teams compiled an impressive .799 winning percentage in nine seasons.
• The 1950-51 team won the prestigious Cambria County War Memorial Invitational Basketball Tournament in December 1950.
• Johnstown Catholic defeated Reading Catholic 50-48 in the 1951 PCIAA title game played in front of 5,000 fans at Cambria County War Memorial Arena.
• The Crushers’ state championship team had a 27-0 season.
• In 1955, Majer moved to Conemaugh Township, where he led the boys basketball team to a 424-254 record in 29 seasons through the 1983-84 season.
• His 1978-79 team, led by future NFL Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jeff Hostetler, finished as the PIAA Class 1A state runner-up.
• St. Pius X defeated Conemaugh Township at Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena.
• Majer’s 1982-83 team went 30-1.
• Majer’s teams at Conemaugh Township won four Class B District 5 titles, three District 5-2A titles, nine Somerset County League titles and one Tri-County League title.
• The Western Pennsylvania Coaches Association Hall of Fame inducted Majer in 1980.
• The Somerset County Basketball Hall of Fame also inducted Majer.
• A former player at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Majer was inducted into St. Vincent College Athletic Hall of Fame and was named to the Lettermen of Distinction in 1979.
• A Johnstown Catholic High School graduate, Majer was a two-time captain of the St. Vincent College men’s basketball team and a star end on the Bearcats football team.
• His coaching career at Johnstown Catholic included Majer’s leading a undefeated teams in both boys basketball (1950-51) and football (8-0, 1951), making him the only coach in Pennsylvania to produce back-to-back undefeated seasons in the two sports at the time.