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 HAROLD GELTZ     GRADUATED 1913    
CHARTER INDUCTEE 1967
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HAROLD GELTZ          AHS Class of 1913
         Harry Geltz was a player-coach from the start, captaining the 1911 and 1912 Alliance High grid teams.
            In those days the captain was an ‘assistant coach,’ handling the team in early workouts before the head coach started the season.  Geltz also played basketball and track.
            He continued as a football triple threat at halfback, quarterback or end at Mount Union. Geltz was praised by Fielding Yost after a Mount Union-Michigan game and was a first team All-Ohio selection in 1915.
            Would War I interrupted, and Geltz served as a lieutenant in France and played football for Camp Sherman. His Camp Sherman team was called the greatest team of all-time by some experts.
            Coaching at Alliance High School, 1921-1926, Geltz had an 8-1 grid record in 1925 and took his 1922-23 cage team to the state semi-finals.  He earned his master’s degree at Ohio State while an assistant to former AHS head coach Sam Willaman.
             Geltz became Mount Union’s head football coach in 1932 and had 7-1-1 records in 1935 and 1936.  He retired in 1941 and died in 1956.
            A charter member of Mount Union’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Geltz founded tradition.  His son Harry Jr. quarterbacked at AHS and Mount Union and his grandson Brad is a back on the 1967 Aviator football team.

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