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Ed Young has stepped down from his position as basketball coach at Stagg to take a similar job at Glenbrook South, it has been learned.“Unfortunately it’s true,” verified Stagg athletic director Chuck Harnisch on Tuesday. “Ed notified me of his intentions sometime last week.”Neither Young, who’s home phone was out of service, or Glenbrook athletic director Ken Hurlbut could be reached for comment.YOUNG, 28, leaves the Palos Hillsschool after a two-year stay. His resignation means that the school must fill the head basketball position for the second time in three years.Young replaced Dick Luthanen at Stagg In the summer of 1974, Luthanen dismissed in the wake of an 0-25 campaign in 1973-74.“I’m afraid it’s got the reputation of something of a basketball graveyard,” Young said in taking the Stagg position, his first head coaching assignment.In two seasons, Young guided the Chargers from that winless nightmare to respectability. Finishing 6-19.in 1974-75,Young’s club last season posted the first-ever winning season in school history and notched a school victory mark with 17 against eight defeats.AND THE Chargers, picked for dead last in a pre-season coaches’ poll, remained in SICA East contention for most of the season before yielding to eventual champion Hillcrest.“You always hate to see the good ones go,” said Harnisch. “But Ed did a job for us while he was here. He got our program off the ground and I think his influence w illbe felt in the future.”For the present, Young’s immediate future is with Glenbrook, a school of 2,400 which is a member of the Central Suburban league.He thus becomes the second man to be named to the Glenbrook job in the last month. East Aurora’s Ernie Kivisto apparently accepted the position, the appointment being announced in the Chicago papers, and then had a change of heart.“I THOUGHT that (Kivisto's taking the Glenbrook job) was settled,” said liar-- j ---their second choice anyway.“We kinda had the idea that we couldn't keep a guy like Ed too long,” Harnisch added. “The good, young coaches are hard to keep.”On the subject of a successor, Harnisch left the door open to any number of possibilities. “We don’t want to close this thing,” he said.“We’ve advertised the position being open, but we also have our own staff to consider. No matter who gets the job, it is(Continued on Page 28)tED YOUNGPart 3—Page 27 Thursday, June 17,1976
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