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Jackets In College: Jim Skuthan Finalist For Jacobs Blocking Trophy, December 23, 1980

FORMER LEESBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STANDOUT JIM SKUTHAN AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY
Georgia Tackle Wins SEC Blocking Award

Sports Section 
Schenctady Gazette
December 23, 1980

CLINTON, S.C. (AP) - Nat Hudson senior tackle on the Sugar Bowl bound Georgia football team, has been named Jacobs Blocking Trophy winner in the Southeastern Conference.

Hudson is a 6-foot-3, 265-pound all-conference player from Rome, Ga.

Vanderbilt tackle Ken Hammond was second in the voting by the league coaches, followed by Auburn guard Jim Skuthan Leesburg High School, Leesburg Florida.

Resources

Post Wire Services
The Palm Beach Post
October 14, 1979
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748


 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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Jackets In College: Jimmy Burry: Cornell Swamps Crimson, 41-14

Cornell Swamps Crimson, 41-14

Offensive Miscues Doom Harvard

By Mark D. Director and David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS
Published: Saturday, October 13, 1979 
 
ITHACA, N.Y.--Harvard football fans' worst nightmares almost came true today, as the Crimson's third quarterback of the season, Mike Smerczynski, was sacked in the second quarter. Smerczynski limped off the field, but the injury is only a sprain and he may play next week. 

In the other news, a frozen and downtrodden Crimson football squad dropped an embarrassing 41-14 contest this afternoon here at Schoellkopf field. 

With 9000 fans screaming "Goodbye Harvard," the Big Red twisted the knife ever deeper, adding a 79-yd. touchdown bomb from third-string quarterback Chris Metz to a streaking Jim Burry (Leesburg High School, Leesburg Florida) with less than a minute to play. The final score capped an afternoon that Crimson fans and players will want to forget quickly. 

Harvard won the toss and elected to kick off. Cornell's game plan was to match its strength--rushing--against the Crimson's strength--rushing defense. 

After four consecutive running plays and a first down, the Big Red struck into Harvard territory with a quick slant pass over the middle from Mike Tanner to tight end Paul Goodberlet. 

But the defense toughened up, and after a roughing penalty on Cornell, the Crimson held the hosts motionless and forced them to punt. 

Harvard also went to the ground but could not get untracked in its first possession. Duke Millard continued to show improvement, however, booming a 42-yd. punt to keep Cornell out of scoring range. 

The defense quickly got the ball back on an impressive series featuring a quarterback sack by linebacker Bob Woolway. The offense stalled after running!for one first down. After a penalty and a sack, the Crimson was pinned deep in its own territory with a third and a mile to go. 

Cornell then sent ten men in on Millard and a wall of red shirts slapped the ball into the endzone, where defensive end Kent Craven pawed the ball for the touchdown. Cornell added the extra point to put the Crimson in an early 7-0 hole. 

After another uninspiring offensive series by Harvard, Cornell resumed its dominance, driving the ball down the field on the ground to close up the first quarter on the Crimson 31. 

On the first snap of the second period, Cornell kicker Ron Rejda made it 10-0 with a booming 47-yd. field goal. 

Harvard then started a drive as Ken Beatrice and John Hollingsworth worked left for a first down on two runs to the Cornell 34. But the Big Red smothered the drive when quarterback Brian McFarlin recovered a Smerczyski fumble at the Cornell 43. 

Quarterback Mike Ryan, the Big Red's usual second-quarter signal caller, opened up quickly with a 15-yd. keeper to the 28. On third and six from the 25, from Ryan-to-Brad-Decker fell through the receiver's frozen hands with Terry Trusty covering in the endzone. 

But the Big Red would not go down quietly, and the cannon-legged Rejda knocked in a 42-yd. field goal to make it 13-0 early in the second period. 

With Beatrice working left on pitchouts from Smerczynski, Harvard began to drive upfield. On a second and five from the 47, Smerczynski was sacked and limped off the field. Joe Lahti then entered the game and immediately ossed a 17-yd. bullet that Richie Horner snared with a leaping grab at the sidelines on the Big Red 40-yd. stripe. 

The drive then died--again with a Harvard miscue--as Paul Connors fumbled the handoff from Lahti on a slant right. Cornell's Mike Cobb jumped on it at the Harvard 45. The Big Red proceeded to roll once again, racking up big rushing yardage. An incomplete Ryan-to-Decker first-down toss at the Harvard 25 again brought out kicker Rejda for the field goal try. But this time he missed from 32 yards out. 

Harvard suffered from footing problems on the slick Schoellkopf Astroturf, and a beautiful Lahti to Callinan screen on first and ten from the 20 died when Callinan slipped and fell. A key third and two at Harvard's 32 became disaster when the Crimson clipped and made it a third and seventeen. Lahti's toss for Horner went somewhere into downtown Ithaca, and Millard came in to kick. 

Millard shanked the ball and gave the Big Red possession at the Crimson 42. 

But Cornell could generate no offense, and Steve Day came in for his first punt of the afternoon, which Beatrice took on a fair catch at the Harvard 28. 

The Crimson then worked from the shotgun but could go nowhere and Millard came on to punt again with 25 seconds to go in the half. 

After a half-time show featuring Star Trek music, ROTC propaganda, and Cornell boys passing girls around in the crowd above their heads, football action resumed with Cornell suddenly taking to the air. 

After only two completions in ten attempts during the first half, three big gainers within six plays brought the Big Red to the Crimson doorstep. Two quick rushes put the ball in the endzone with Bob Muha going over from the two on a pitch-out to the right. So with 8:26 remaining in the third stanza, Harvard trailed 20-0 and desperately tried to get some back by going to the air. Suffice to say that the most exciting moment of the drive for the Crimson was the announcement in the press box that this was Bob Cavileer's fiftieth year as the Harvard statistician. 

Neither team could mount an offense on the next two series, but a holding call on a Millard punt gave Cornell the ball on the 42 with three minutes left in the quarter. 

The air attack clicked again as Ryan launched a big gainer to Decker at the 10. From there, Ryan faked everyone out, tucking the ball behind his hip on a keeper to the 3. He then pitched to the fleet Tom Weidenkopf on the option to make the score 27-0. A pointless Harvard series of Lahti incompletes turned the ball back over and again put the defense to the test. On the first play, Ryan burned the lagging resistance, hitting a wide-open Mike Turley for 41 yards to the Harvard 19 before Scott MacLeod collared him. 

Rolling left on second and eight, Ryan hit Turley with just enough for the first down at the Harvard 10. On a third and goal, Ryan's incomplete pass to Turley in the endzone became a bonanza when Harvard was called for interference and gave the Big Red a first down at the 1. On the nextplay, Weidenkopf went over the top for an airborn score. The Rejda kick capped a 60-yd. six-play drive that buried Harvard 34-0 with 13:11 left in the torture chamber. 

Lahti worked on the ground when Harvard got the ball back and started to move the team. A 16-yd. toss to Horner moved the ball into Cornell territory at the 49, and a Cornell facemask on the following play turned a Beatrice run into a first and ten at the Big Red 32. 

A big third and five from the 26 worked well as Connors took it straight ahead for a first down at the 21. On the next play, Lahti took his time, stepped up and hit Horner on a turn-in at the 5 and the fleet-footed receiver waltzed into the endzone for the Crimson's first points. A Dave Cody kick finally gave Harvard 7, making the tally 34-7 at 5:29 in the fourth quarter. 

Cody's attempt at an onside kick almost worked as the ball scooted off a Cornell lineman's pad, but the Big Red covered at its own 45. 

An ineffective Cornell series and punt gave Harvard a first at its own 45. A Lahti-to-Horner pass and a Cornell facemask gave Harvard the ball at the Cornell 22. Working out of the shotgun, Lahti threw three incompletes and the Crimson faced a fourth and ten. Lahti responded with a bullet to Beatrice for a first on the 10 as the fullback curled in under the linebackers. 

Hollingsworth weaved for three, and Lahti kept for three more before the officials ruled his third-down pass for Horner was trapped and incomplete in the endzone. From the shotgun on fourth, Lahti hit Callinan in the gap for Harvard's second score. Cody kicked to make it 34-14 with 5:49 to play. 

Another onside kick dribbled into Cornell's hands at the Big Red 45 and Harvard's attempt at a miracle again was set back. 

A too-late break as George Jackson intercepted the ball on Cornell's first play, combined with a Horner catch at the Cornell 40 put the Crimson in motion again. The final hopes then died, as Lahti's shotgun pass for Callinan fell into Cornell arms at the Big Red 22, setting up the last Cornell score. 

Resources

Post Wire Services
The Palm Beach Post
October 14, 1979
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748


 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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Jackets In College: Jimmy Burry And Cornell Past Harvard, October 14, 1979

Schoellkopf field
3 Quarterbacks Lift Cornell Past Harvard

By Post Wire Services
The Palm Beach Post
October 14, 1979

ITHACA, N.Y. - Kent Craven turned Steve Vago's blocked punt into a early touchdown and backup kicker Ron Redja scored 11 points yesterday as Cornell defeated Harvard 41-14.

Cornell defense came up big with plays early in the game when Vago broke through the line to get his hands on a Harvard punt which Craven found in the end zone to get the Big Red rolling to their victory against one loss.

Cornell's second score was also set up by the defense when Brian McFarlin recovered a Harvard fumble which Redja turned into a 47 yard field goal.

Redja playing in place of  injured kicker Keith Manz, also had a 42 yard field goal and five extra points.

Using three quarterbacks in the second half , Cornell offense took control of the game with Tom Weidenkopf scoring twice from three yards out and Bob Muha scoring on a one yard run on drives set up by passes thrown by Mike Tanner and Mike Ryan.

Third string quarterback Chris Metz teamed up with Jim Burry (Leesburg High School, Leesburg Florida) on a 79 yard pass for Cornell's final score.

Rich Horner provided most of Harvard's offense by catching seven passes for a 113 yards and one touchdown. Harvard was shutout until the final quarter when quarterback Joe Lahti hit Horner and Jim Calinan for a touchdown.

Harvard is now 1-1 in the Ivy League and 1-3 overall. Cornell is 2-0 in the league.


First Downs                 15                   18
Rushing Yards              38-87             53-152
Passing Yards               143                 267
Return Yards                  0                    46
Passes                          11-29-2          10-24-1
Punts                            9-28                6-26
Fumbles Lost               3-2                   2-0
Penalties Yards             4-52                7-90

Harvard       0   0   0   14  -   14
Cornell         7   6   14  14  -  41

Cornell - Craven blocked punt 
Cornell - Redja Field Goal 47
Cornell - Redja Field Goal 43
Cornell - Muha 1 yard run (Redja kick)
Cornell - Weidenkopf  3 yard run (Redja kick)
Cornell - Weidenkopf  3 yard run (Redja kick)
Harvard - Horner 3 yard pass from Lahti (Caty kick)
Harvard - Calinan 3 yard pass from Lahti (Caty kick)
Cornell - Burry 79 yard pass from Metz (Redja kick)
A - 9000 

Resources

Post Wire Services
The Palm Beach Post
October 14, 1979
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748


 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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Article provided by:
Gerald Lacey
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1986 Varsity Jackets Football Lettermen #82
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Jackets In College: Clay Sampson is OAC's Top Back, November 28, 1979


By Sports Section
Excerpt
Youngstown Vindicator
November 28, 1979

CLEVELAND (AP) - Tailback Clay Sampson (Leesburg High School, Leesburg Florida) of Denison and center Blake Moore of Wooster won offensive honors, while linebacker Mike Hoon of Baldwin-Wallace and tackle Joe Govern of Wittenberg took the defensive awards as the outstanding football players in Ohio Athletic Conference in 1979. 

Sampson was named the OAC's outstanding offensive back by the leagues coaches. He ran Denison's single wing attack and OAC single season records by rushing for 1,517 in 323 carries, running 412 offensive plays and piling up 2,225 yards in total offense.

Dave Maurer of Wittenberg, who team takes on Ithaca Saturday for the NCAA Division III title, was named OAC coach of the Year for the fifth time. His teams have carved out a 97-14-3 record and won five outright OAC titles and shared another in his ten years at Wittenberg.

Resources

Sports Section
Excerpt
Youngstown Vindicator
November 28, 1979
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748



 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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1986 Varsity Jackets Football Lettermen #82
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Jackets In College: Diontre Cornish Signs Letter Of Intent With Thiel College, May 1, 2012

Leesburg High School Head Coach Randy Trivers and LB/DB Diontre Cornish
By Gerald Lacey
Staff Writer
Carver Heights Quarterback Club
May 1, 2012


LEESBURG - Leesburg High School senior LB/TE Diontre Cornish has signed a NCAA Letter Of Intent to play football at Thiel College (Greenville, Pa.). Cornish is the tenth player to sign with a college in Head Coach Randy Trivers two year tenure at Leesburg. In Trivers 11 seasons as a high school football coach he has sent over 60 players to the college ranks.

Thiel College is a NCAA Division III program that plays in the Presidents Athletic Conference. Cornish will join former Leesburg High School Defensive Coordinator John Harakal at Thiel College. Harakel and the rest of the Leesburg coaching staff played a important part in the recruiting process for Cornish.




"When Coach Harakal had told a couple players that he was leaving to go coach in college, I knew that I wanted to follow him and continue to be coach by him but I had to get the information."

"Coach Harakal has been with me every step of the way during this college process. Also, with the new edition of Coach Cory Russell to the LHS football staff I have created a bond with him since he was a coach at Thiel College."


Cornish is excited about having a chance to compete on the next level.


Former Leesburg High School Defensive Coordinator and Linebackers Coach John Harakal
"I felt like it was a blessing to be moving on to the next level of football and in my education," said Cornish in a recent interview with Gerald Lacey. "I worked to so hard and will continue to work hard"

Cornish will play defensive end at Thiel and had another offer to play at Aurora University but choose Thiel instead. Cornish is pleased with the way the coaching staff at Leesburg has prepared him to make the transition to college football on and off the field.



Cornish will play his home games Alumni Stadium at Stoeber Field
"Coach John Harakal was a big part of the reason why I choose Thiel College because his time here at LHS, he showed me what it takes to be tough on the field and in the classroom. Also, with the support from my friends and family and other coaches I felt as though Thiel college can help me develop my skills as a player and student."


"All of the coaches have informed me that difficulty that I will go through playing at a college level but I feel that with the training that they have giving me and the knowledge to not give up and keep pushing through adversity no matter what the problem is." 


Resources

Thiel College 
Sports Information Department
http://www.thielathletics.com
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748


 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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Harakal Named Defensive Coordinator At Thiel College, January 16, 2012



GREENVILLE, Pa. – Thiel College has announced the return of John Harakal as the football program's new defensive coordinator.

“I am very excited to have the opportunity to come back to Thiel and get our football program back on top of the Presidents' Athletic Conference,” said Harakal.

Harakal spent both the 2010 and 2011 seasons as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for head coach Randy Trivers at Leesburg High School, one of seven public high schools located in Lake County, Florida.

Former Leesburg High School Defensive Coordinator and Linebackers Coach John Harakal
Prior to his time at Leesburg Harakal spent three seasons in a variety of positions with the Rutgers University football program. Under Scarlet Knights head coach Greg Schiano, Harakal served as the assistant defensive line coach during the 2009 season, where he was responsible for coaching the defensive ends along with overseeing the quality control staff and playing a role in the recruitment of student-athletes.

After completing a stellar four-year career as a Tomcat fullback and earning his bachelor's degree in history from Thiel in 2002, Harakal began his coaching career under then head football coach Jack Leipheimer in the fall of 2002 as the Tomcat's assistant defensive line coach where he was instrumental in establishing the Tomcats' off-season weight training program.

Thiel College Head Coach Kurt Reiser
“We are excited to have John back with us at Thiel. He did a great job early in his coaching career here when he coached our defensive line. I am confident with the experience he has gained over the last several years that he will make a great addition to our staff as our defensive coordinator. John will bring a great deal of energy and intensity to our defense that will need to improve for next season,” said Tomcat head coach Kurt Reiser.

Resources

Thiel College 
Sports Information Department
http://www.thielathletics.com
 
 
 Leesburg Public Library
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, Florida 34748



 

Leesburg Yellow Jackets Football News
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Leesburg Lady Jackets Track And Field
Leesburg Lady Jackets Volleyball
Leesburg Yellow Jackets Baseball
Lake County Sports News
 
 
Article provided by:
Gerald Lacey
Staff Writer
Carver Heights Quarterback Club
1986 Varsity Jackets Football Lettermen #82
Class of 1988 Leesburg High School
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