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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Dallas varsity football coach Ron
Rybak came to Dallas School District
from Freeland 20 years ago, where he
taught for one year. A native of Nanti-
coke, Rybak received his baccalaureate
degree from King’s College and his
master’s degree in science from Scranton
University.
Since coming to Dallas he has taught in
the junior high school and also served as
assistant football coach until 1979 when
he took over as head coach.
Rybak is married to the former Sandra
Dempski, also of Nanticoke and a post-
graduate of Wyoming Seminary Dean
School of Business. She is now pursuing a
degree in business administration at
Wilkes College. They have two sons, Ron,
Jr., a student at Wilkes College, and
Randy, a student at Kutztown. Both are
majoring in Business Administration.
Rybak is assisted by Chuck Suppon, an
assistant coach at Wyoming Valley West
until he came to Dallas last season.
Suppon attended Rutgers University,
New Jersey, where he played football
with the late Ray Goeringer, a Dallas
graduate and star athlete. He graduated
from Wilkes College.
Bill Silvi is also in his second year as
assistant coach at Dallas Senior High
School. Prior to coming to Dallas, Silvi
was an assistant at Coughlin High School.
He is a graduate of the University of
Virginia. :
“These two young men play key roles
in our program,” says Rybak. “All I
need is one more man like those two. I
thought I had a third assistant but he
~ withdrew.”
Looking back at last season, Rybak
recalled some of the highlights such as
defeating Meyers on the turf for the first
time sine 1972 or 1973, winning their last
three games without allowing their oppo-
nents to score against them. The Moun-
taineers defeated Tunkhannock, Meyers
and Lake-Lehman while holding those
teams scoreless.
. He said he will never forget his kids
defeating GAR, the first time since 1972.
“It was a great psychological win for our
kids. They know now that they can beat
the Grenadiers.” z
Rybak said last season’s quarterback,
Bernie Walsh, was outstanding the entire
season but his best game was probably
against Wyoming Valley West when his
passing was terrific and for the first
three quarters the score was only 14-7. In
the final quarter, the Spartans were too
many and too big and wore down the
Dallas boys.
To date, the highlight of Rybak’s
career and probably Norm Bordley’s as
well was when Bordley, the swift running
back went over his high school career’s
3,000 yard mark in the Dallas/Lake-
Lehman game. The officials stopped the
game and gave Bordley the ball, who
immediately ran to the stands and
presented it to his dad. As far back as
Rybak can remember, Bordley was the
Neither will Rybak forget Pat Kern
who played with a leg most people
wouldn’t even walk on. It was determina-
tion and pride that kept him going, said
what the young player suffered when he
was on -the field but he begged to play
and his team mates wanted him to.
Kern’s foot and amkle were crushed in a
Each time as he played, rock and dirt
worked its way out through his foot and
Rybak said it was a terrible thing to see
each time he taped it. Kern was supposed
to go to Mansfield State College, but
when officials learned about his foot, that
stopped him.
“Last year Mike Borton was, without a
doubt, the best fullback in the confer-
ence, but his size stopped him from
getting a football scholarship,” said
Rybak. “He weighed only 140 pounds, but
his size meant nothing. Pound for pound,
he was the toughest kid in the Wyoming
Valley Conference. He played with deter-
mination and desire, a perfect example
thing I asked him to do, he did and did it
well.”
When asked about former players
going to college on scholarships, Rybak
said prior to last season 15 team mem-
bers had received scholarships or grants.
However, without his records in front of
him he could not remember all of them.
He mentioned as many as he could think
of at that time.
~ Mike Getz, who graduated in 1979, was
one of the finest team leaders Rybak had.
He went to Lafayette on a scholarship
and graduated from there last June.
Mark Goeringer, outstanding athlete
was accepted at Swarthmore, one of the
top five colleges in the country and tom
Levitsky went to Wilkes College.
Greg Dukinas was accepted at Mora-
vian College as was Jerry Rollman.
Rollman transferred this year to Penn
State’s/Wilkes-Barre Campus, changing
his major to engineering. He is now an
assistant football coach at Dallas Junior
High School.
Mike Kern was accepted at Lycoming
college and Norm Bordley at West Ches-
ter. David Oster received a scholarship
to Farleigh-Dickinson and Steve Thomas,
who graduated two years ago, is at
Bloomsburg State College.
Players from last season’s team
attending colleges on scholarships or
grants are Greg Manusky at Colgate
University, Sam Noone at Delaware
Valley and Joe Ostrowski at Farleigh-
Dickinson.
Joe Walsh turned down an offer for
college to enlist in the service and
according to last reports he was enjoying
it.
Local gridders
go on to college
Steve Thomas, a 1983 graduate of
Dallas High School, will attend Blooms-
burg University this fall were he will
participate in the Huskies football pro-
gram.
As a senior in high school, Steve played
split-end and caught 25 passes for over
500 yards and seven touchdowns. On
defense, he played the cornerback posi-
tion and intercepted three passes, return-
ing one for a 60-yard touchdown run.
Steve is expected to play offensive end
for the Huskies this fall.
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Joseph Ostrowski, son of Ronald and
Mary Ostrowski of Carverton Heights,
Kingston Township, will play football for
the Devils of Fairleigh-Dickinson in New
Jersey this year.
A 1984 graduate of Dallas High School,
Ostrowski played football for the Moun-
taineers for three years, in the center
and linebacker positions.
At Fairleigh-Dickinson, he is studying
Math.
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