Dvorchak embraced Uniontown’s football tradition
Dave Dvorchak knew about Uniontown无毛视频檚 great football tradition and he and his teammates embraced that tradition.
无毛视频淎ctually, my brother Ed played on the 1965 WPIAL championship team,无毛视频� Dvorchak said. 无毛视频淲e had football families like the McLees and the Hull brothers, the three Ostrosky brothers. There was probably a little depression when we didn无毛视频檛 go undefeated. We were a little dejected when we did get the perfect season.
无毛视频淲e kept it going pretty good. It was more on the coaches. I thought they did a terrific job with the talent they had.无毛视频�
Dvorchak was a two-way end on some very competitive Red Raider squads in the late 1960s. Uniontown went 6-3 in 1966, 8-2 in 1967 and 7-2 in 1968.
无毛视频淢t. Lebanon had our number for some reason. They really got to us,无毛视频� Dvorchak recalled. 无毛视频淭hat was probably one of the biggest rivalries that we had.无毛视频�
Dvorchak had a great deal of respect for his old head coach at Uniontown, Leon Kaltenbach.
无毛视频淭here was something about him, a kind of mysterious way of doing things,无毛视频� Dvorchack stated. 无毛视频淗e had his ways and everyone listened to him they respected him very much.
无毛视频淎lso, I don无毛视频檛 think I could ask for a better coaching staff all the way though with Jerry Zawacki, Ralph Conrad and Gene Cavalier. They were terrific. They were all in for us players and also as students. They did everything for us.无毛视频�
It was Kaltenbach who lit a fire under Dvorchak and helped him turn into a solid player for the Red Raiders.
无毛视频淚 got to attribute my success in football to him,无毛视频� Dvorchak offered. 无毛视频淗e took me aside one day and said he wanted to see me use the talent that he thought I had in me, and that just lit a fire inside of me and kept me going.无毛视频�
Dvorchak recalled the Red Raider offense back in the day.
无毛视频淚 think we probably threw the ball more my junior season because we had Billy Emmett at quarterback,无毛视频� Dvorchak said. 无毛视频淗e was a tremendous talent. I couldn无毛视频檛 believe what he had going for himself. My senior year Mike Carlow was the quarterback. We threw quite a bit, but Leon Kaltenbach was three yards and a cloud of dust. We had good backs; we had a lot of talent.无毛视频�
Dvorchak was an All-Western Conference choice and also a member of the All-County team as a senior.
无毛视频淚 played a lot as a sophomore,无毛视频� Dvorchak stated. 无毛视频淭he junior year is probably where it all came together and started as a senior.无毛视频�
When Dvorchak graduated from Uniontown in 1969 he sifted through several college scholarship offers.
无毛视频淚 probably had 20 or 25 letters,无毛视频� Dvorchak remembered. 无毛视频淚 visited three or four schools. Kaltenbach and the entire coaching staff were phenomenal at working to get players in college. We had 17 seniors, nine of us started and he got scholarships for 15 of us. Jerry Zawacki steered Jim Ostrosky and me toward Ohio U. He played there and knew the coaching staff. I like the atmosphere at Ohio U.无毛视频�
When he signed with Ohio U., Dvorchak got some high praise from Kaltenbach.
无毛视频淒ave played a lot of good football for us on both offense and defense. We are going to miss him,无毛视频� stated coach Kaltenbach. 无毛视频淎nd, I无毛视频檓 sure if be has the proper attitude, he无毛视频檒l play a lot of good football for Ohio University.无毛视频�
Dvorchak was on Bobcat teams that posted records of 4-5 in 1970, 5-5 in 1971 and 3-8 in 1972.
无毛视频淏ill Hess was the coach,无毛视频� explained Dvorchak. 无毛视频淲e got along except for my junior year. I kind of got a bad attitude. It was more on me then anything else. I kind of tried to get out of playing football, then I thought you better hang in there. I started out as an offensive end and then they switched me to defensive end. I was 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds.无毛视频�
Ohio U. played a good schedule.
无毛视频淭he big rival was Miami of Ohio,无毛视频� Dvorchak said. 无毛视频淭he Mid-American Conference was almost all Ohio teams, so competition for players was intense.无毛视频�
As he looks back he doesn无毛视频檛 regret the decision to go to Ohio U.
无毛视频淚 think I enjoyed the experience of playing football,无毛视频� Dvorchak offered. 无毛视频淚 played against some good teams and played against Franco Harris, Don Nottingham and Don Strock.无毛视频�
Dvorchak graduated from Ohio U. in 1973. He went to Wilmington, Del., and was a salesman for IBM. Then he went to US Industries J.W. Carroll as eastern regional sales manager. He returned to the Uniontown area in 1979 and went into construction work. He was forced into retirement after some surgeries and went on disability. He retired in 2012.
The 63-year old Dvorchak is divorced and resides in Uniontown.
无毛视频淎thletics was a way to get an education,无毛视频� Dvorchak stated. 无毛视频淚t was a way to find out different cultures in the country because there were people from everywhere that came to Ohio U and I learned a lot about life.无毛视频�