Coach Malinak honored at CM Heritage Homecoming

BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, PA – One of the highlights at last Friday’s Central Mountain Heritage Homecoming football game was a special pre-game presentation to retired Lock Haven High School football coach Don Malinak.

Members of one of the venerable coach’s outstanding teams, from the Lock Haven High School Class of 1960, presented Malinak a plaque to be permanently mounted at Malinak Stadium, the football facility named in his honor in 2009.

Malinak celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this summer and was feted by former players and the City of Lock Haven observed a Don Malinak Day at that time.

The plaque reads:

Malinak Stadium

Dedicated to Coach Don Malinak

Head Football Coach at Lock Haven High School from 1957 to 1985.

Coached the Bobcats to ten consecutive winning seasons and five conference championships.

Voted Central Counties coach of the Year in 1961.

Had a career coaching record of 183-90-10.

Co-Captain at Penn State in 1953 and named an All-East Regional End.

Played in both the North-South Shrine and Senior Bowl games.

Was a 3 year starter and an All-State Selection at Steelton High School.

Elected to the PA Scholastic Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 1991 and the West Branch Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.

COURTESY of the 1960 LHHS FOOTBALL TEAM