Coach Graver Started the Ball Rolling Coach Graver Started the Ball Rolling Forty-one years ago, Coach Jim Graver started the Leo ball rolling.
Chances are, that ball was a baseball.
Back in 1957, Graver was the coach of the Abington High School, Pennsylvania, USA, baseball team. Graver was also an active member of the Glenside, Pennsylvania, Lions Club. With fellow Lion, William Ernst, Graver talked about starting a service club for high school boys. So they asked their fellow Lions for support. Without hesitation, the Glenside Lions agreed that a Lions youth group was a good idea.