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Honoring the great athletes from Cambria County.

Joe Restic

Football, Class of 1978

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Joe Restic, Harvard football coach
Joe Restic talks to his quarterback.

Accomplishments

  • Hastings native coached the Harvard University football team in the Ivy League.
    Played two seasons at St. Francis College before transferring to Villanova.
  • Signed a professional baseball contract as a pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies organization and played in an all-star game at Point Stadium.
  • Signed with the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles in 1952 as a receiver and defensive back.
  • Began coaching career began at Wicomico High School in Maryland and Neptune High in New Jersey.
  • Served as ends coach and head scout at Brown University from 1956 to 1958.
  • Coached at Colgate  from 1959 to 1961, and with the CFL’s Hamilton Tigers from 1962 to 1970.
  • Named head coach in Hamilton in 1968 and in nine years coached in five Grey Cup championship games, winning three titles.
  • Took head coaching job at Harvard in 1971 and stayed through 1993, posting a 117-97-6 record with five first-place finishes in the Ivy League.
  • Retired after 23 seasons at Harvard as the winningest football coach in the program’s history.
  • Named AFCA District 1 Kodak Coach of the Year in 1975.
  • Coached in six all-star games, serving as head coach in the East-West Shrine Game and the Blue-Gray Classic.
  • Three-time Eastern Coach of the Year and was the 1990 winner of the “Distinguished American” award given by the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the National Football Foundation.
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  • 1965
  • 1967
  • 1969
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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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