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U-TffiE TALLBT WMFEMDENT, Mmh!*) , March 4, IMSMONDAY A.M. WASH: When someone asked Steve Telleck, Bentleyville-Eilsworth basketball coach, whose team meets Perryopolis in a Class B WPIAL quarter-finalgame tonight in Monessen, to name an all-time team, he hesitated a long lime.“0( course, B-E has been in existence only two years since Bentleyville and Ellsworth got together/* he started out, but m do my best. Only I'd like to make it a two-deep team.“You can't keep Dewey (Wilkens) off It, not only because he holds the all-time single game, season and three-year scoring records but because he*s a ‘natural’ and easy to coach. The only other B*E player I can think of who also belongs is Jack Hamilton, now at Westminster. He was a good floor man and playmakcr.“The best all-around player I ever had was Paul Squarcia who later went to Boston U. on a football scholarship. - He could do everything and he did it without attracting attention. He was consistent.“All the others are kids that I coached when 1 was at Bentley* ville. They include Bruce Gibbs, now at Edinboro; Rudy Marshalek who spent a year at Notre Dame on a football scholarship; Fran Konrad who went to Pitt, Ron Salvitti who played at W. J., Jack Loar, Carey Moore and Gene Taras/*Although he never played the game while attending Charleroi High in the late 30s and picked It up “accidentally” when he was drafted for the team at George Washington U. during World War n, Telleck ranks as one of the most successful coaches in the WPIAL.This is his fourth straight trip to the post-season playoffs as the Sec. 18-B representative and his all-time coaching record shows 222 wins coupled with 82 losses in 16 seasons. The mark is em-
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Monessen Valley Independent
Monessen, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Mar 04, 1963
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