Milford chronicle., 1960-05-20
Coaches Selected
For The Annual All
Star Grid Fray
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undefeated, united season. The per-
feet 500 record included 500
sweep of the strong Blue Hen Con-
ference.
Wayne has done all his coaching
at Mt. Pleasant. Joining the facul-
ty shortly after graduating from
Delaware in 1851, he served as
junior varsity coach for five years.
In 1856, he moved up as line coach
of the varsity.
Born in Girard, Ohio, Pollari
came to Delaware as a yOungster
when his parents started a chicken
business near Newark in 1884. He
attended Newark High, where he
played varsity football and basket
ball. After graduation in 1943, he
entered the Navy. He participated
in the invasion of the PHILIPPINES
and received the Silver Star for
"gallantry in action.
The new All-Star coach entered
Delaware in 1916, but his athletic
activity was curtailed by injuries.
AS a freshman, while captaining
the junior varsity football team he
broke a knee. Returning to action
in his junior year, he developed a
sacroiliac condition that ended his
competitive career. Because of his
keen interest in sports, Pollari
stayed with the football team as
student manager and Coach Bill
Murray awarded him the varsity
/ - I, nd
as a player had it not been for in
juries.
Pollari was graduated in 1850
with honors in history. and remain
ed another year to get a masters
degree in political science. He now
heads the social studies depart
ment at Mt. Pleasant. He is a for
mer president of the Delaware
State Education, the New Castle
County Education and the Mt.
Pleasant Teachers Association.
Pollari is married to the former
jeanne DiSabatino, who was Del
aware classmate. They have two
children, and reside in Oak Lane
/ Manor.
Bob Hoffman, who posted an g.
and-1 record at Newark High last
season in his first year as a head
coach, will coach the Colds against
the Blues in the fifth annual Del
aware All-Star High School Foot
ball Game.
The announcement was made re-
Gently by Tom Miller, the former
Notre Dame halfback who is the
new athletic chairman for the
game. Hoffman was elected to the
post by the Delaware Interscholas-
tic Football Association.
Thus, the All-Star reins will be
in the hands of two young mentors
who enjoyed outstanding success
last year as they broke into the
head-coaching ranks. Wayne Pol
lari of Mt Pleasant High will
coach the Blues after an undefeat-
ed 800 season that included the
Blue Hen Conference champion
ship.
Newark nished runner-up in the
Conference with a 6-1 record. It's
only defeat of the season was to
Mt. Pleasant, TO.
Each coach will have 30 newly
graduated schoolboy football stars.
Hoffman's Gold talent will come
from below the border, which
is the southern city line extending
west to the Lancaster Pike. Pol
lari's Blues will represent schools
north of the line.
Hoffman last fall succeeded Don
Miller, now member of the Am
herst College staff, as Newark High
coach. He had been line coach for
two years and has seen Newark
elevens lose only two games in his
three seasons of coaching.
Hoffman, 30, is native of Pros
pect Park, Pa. He co-captained the
football team there from his center
position. Then he played one year
for Pennsylvania Military College
Prep and four at Gettysburg Col
lege. AS junior at Gettysburg, he
played on a team that won eight
straight games after losing the
opener to Delaware. His coach was
John Yovicsin, now head coach at
Harvard
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