Early agate
ON THIS DATE
Dec. 15
1951 – Bane Weber scores 18 points and Washington & Jefferson’s basketball team deals Penn State its first loss of the season, 49-46, in a game played at Washington High School.
1956 – Larry Romboski sets Washington & Jefferson’s single-game scoring record with 43 points in the Presidents’ 89-60 victory over Bethany at Wash High gymnasium.
1967 – Jim Bunning, one of eight major league pitchers to throw a perfect game, is traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Woodie Fryman, Don Money, Harold Clem and Bill Laxton.
1968 – Bill Austin is fired as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers following a two-win season.
1971 – Defending WPIAL champion George Reihner scores a fall with nine seconds left in the heavyweight bout to give Washington a 26-23 win over Fort Cherry.
1973 – Leon Jones’ fall with 1:03 remaining in the final bout sends Chartiers-Houston past Washington and to the team championship at the California State College Holiday Wrestling Tournament. Jones’ pin of McKeesport’s Ed Bentley in the 185-pound final gives C-H a half-point win over the Prexies.
1975 – Milo Hamilton, play-by-play broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves, is hired for the same job with the Pittsburgh Pirates, replacing Bob Prince, who was fired.
1980 – Ray Natili and Tim Tyler each score 14 points and lead five Waynesburg College players in double figures as the Yellow Jackets defeat visiting California State 81-68 and sweep the season home-and-home series.
1990 – Washington outscores Trinity 17-3 in the fourth quarter to beat the Hillers 58-57. Terry Vaughn and Mike Edwards each score 15 points for the Prexies.
1990 – Michael Moorer retains his World Boxing Organization light heavyweight title with an 8th-round TKO over Dan Stonewalker at the Civic Arena.
2005 – Former player Ed Olczyk is fired as head coach fo the Pittsburgh Penguins and replaced by Michael Therrien. The Penguins are off to a dismal 8-17-6 start. Thierren’s Scranton/Wilkes-Barre team has won 21 of 24 games.