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A highly-successful football, basketball and baseball coach, Harry Sweeney is best remembered as the man who put West Liberty football on the national map as the Hilltopper athletic program began to grow in the mid-1920s.
In seven seasons at the Hilltopper football helm, four of Sweeney's teams were unbeaten in West Virginia Conference play and three of them - 1927, 1929, 1930 - won conference championships.
His best season was in 1929 when West Liberty dropped the season opener to Ohio University but won its last eight games to finish with an 8-1 record. Sweeney's squad outscored the last eight opponents by a whopping 261-20 margin.
Sweeney also coached the Hilltopper baseball team to multiple league titles and recorded back-to-back unbeaten seasons with West Liberty's 1931 and 1932 men's basketball teams.
A former star athlete at Susquehanna (Pa.) University, Sweeney spent more than a quarter-century as a high school teacher and coach in the Ohio Valley after leaving the hilltop.
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