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Honoring the great athletes from Cambria County.

Don Hall

Hockey, Class of 1965

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Hockey legend Gordie Howe presents hall of fame award to Don Hall in 1965.
Don Hall, Johnstown Jets prolific goal scorer.
Don Hall
Don Hall, Johnstown Jets.
Don Hall, early in his career with the Johnstown Jets.

Don Hall, Johnstown Jets
Don Hall early in his Jets career.
Don Hall, poses with the 1975 NAHL Lockhart Trophy. Hall was president of the team.
Don Hall, Johnstown Jets captain.

Accomplishments

  • Prolific goal-scorer played 11 seasons for the Johnstown Jets from 1951-52 to 1961-62.
  • Scored 393 goals and collected 979 points with the Jets playing in the Eastern and International Leagues.
  • Part of five Jets playoff championship teams.
  • An Eastern League All-Star left wing for nine consecutive years.
  • Won the International League’s George H. Wilkinson Trophy as top regular-season scorer with 110 points.
  • Scored 100-plus points three times and had 80 or more points five other seasons.
  • Part of the United States team in the 1962 World Hockey Championships in Colorado Springs.
  • Coached 1963-64 United States team that toured the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries during the Cold War era.
  • His No. 9 jersey is one of only four retired in Johnstown hockey history.
  • Played a significant role in starting a youth travel hockey program in Johnstown region by coaching a 1967 team that competed in Lake Placid, New York.
  • President of the 1974-75 Johnstown Jets championship team that inspired the Paul Newman movie “Slap Shot.”
  • An avid golfer, Hall has a hole dedicated in his honor at the Sunnehanna Country Club.
  • Played a lead role in Johnstown and Cambria County War Memorial Arena’s successful campaign to win the inaugural Kraft Hockeyville USA title in 2015.
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Classes

  • 1965
  • 1967
  • 1969
  • 1971
  • 1973
  • 1975
  • 1978
  • 1981
  • 1984
  • 1990
  • 1998
  • 2002
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2008
  • 2010
  • 2012
  • 2014
  • 2016
  • 2018
  • 2020

Sports

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  • Baseball
  • Baseball Builder
  • Baseball Umpire
  • Basketball
  • Boxing
  • Broadcasting/Media
  • Builder
  • Distance Running
  • Equipment Manager
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Handball
  • Hockey
  • Horse Racing Jockey
  • Hunting
  • Mono Skiing
  • Officiating
  • Skeet Shooting
  • Sports Medicine
  • Sports Promotion/Media
  • Swimming
  • Television Broadcasting
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field
  • Trap Shooting
  • Triathlon
  • Volleyball
  • Water Skiing
  • Wrestling
  • Wrestling Official

Fast Facts

First Banquet: 1965
First Chairman: Richard Mayer
First Banquet Location: Cambria County War Memorial Arena
Number of Banquets: 20 through 2018
Total Inductees: 142
Female Inductees: 20
Male Inductees: 122
Largest Class: 18 in 1965
Most Inductees: Football (44)
2018 Chairman: Bruce Haselrig
2018 Master of Ceremonies: Tim Rigby
2018 Banquet Location: Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center

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